Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emphasizing race-neutral, universal policies, has Clinton turned his back on black America? He's been accused of it. Some black spokesmen have even chided him for delivering the same speech to black audiences that he gives to white audiences. Maybe they're missing the point. It means he's giving the same talk to white audiences that he gives to black ones. No coded messages. No tailored racial appeals, and no playing off of interests...
Although the above facts suggest that the ordinance unfairly targets the Santeria religion, the city claims that the ordinance is a neutral governmental decision not formulated with religion in mind. Richard G. Garrett, the lawyer who will argue the city's case, protests rather disingenuously that both secular and religious animal sacrifices are outlawed by the ordinance...
...government. But the Court recently loosened the restraints on governmental interference with religion in Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith (1990), deciding that the state's interest didn't have to be so compelling after all. All the local government has to prove is that the law was a neutral decision not aimed at religion. If it happens to make it impossible for someone to practice his religion, that's just too bad. Clearly, the spectre of "no establishment of religion" has scared judges away from reading the subsequent "nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof" clause...
Although the vast majority of sex crimes are perpetuated by men against women, debate on the subject should be gender- and sexual orientation-neutral and should focus on the nature of the criminal liability...
...freespeech. I think it's a lot of hypocrisy. A lot ofthem wouldn't defend free speech unless it wasdirected at them and unless they were the victimsof censorship. At any given time at a universitythere are only going to be a few handfuls ofpeople who genuinely believe in neutral freespeech for everybody. Mostly, as Nat Hentoff putit so well in the title of his book, its FreeSpeech for Me--Not for Thee...