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Meanwhile, lists of donors to Prop. 8, once trumpeted on the Yes on 8 website, have been taken down to protect individuals from harassment. "It's really awful," says Frank Schubert, campaign manager for Yes on 8. "No matter what you think of Proposition 8, we ought to respect people's right to participate in the political process. It strikes me as quite ironic that a group of people who demand tolerance and who claim to be for civil rights are so willing to be intolerant and trample on other people's civil rights...
...decide to study corn specifically? Corn is conspicuously subsizied by the government and it has been criticized as being particularly unsustainable with respect to its requirements for fertilizer and irrigation and the machinery required. Corn is worth examining...
...really angry by the raw generalizations that he used to describe both men and women when he said that women need love, but want respect,” said Samantha G.M. Barnard ’09. “I think all people want to be respected equally...
...ability of anyone, especially a 13-year-old, to walk away from something that represented hope, however feeble. But you have to be grateful that the ultimate judges kept an open mind, let Hannah make her case and found it reasonable for her circumstances. This is ultimately what respect for life looks like; it means respecting an individual's right to decide how she wants to live, even if that involves knowing she will die. Mercy, detached from justice, grows unmerciful, C.S. Lewis said. But surely justice detached from mercy grows unjust...
Hannah's mother Kirsty was once an intensive-care nurse and had seen the ordeal up close. So she and her husband Andrew decided that they needed to respect their daughter's wishes. "It was very emotional trying to reach the sort of decision you would never wish on your worst enemy," Andrew told reporters. "We were as low as it's possible to get, but I just didn't feel able to influence her. My wife and I agreed that whatever Hannah wanted, we would support her." She wanted to be at home, to play with her three younger...