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...First Amendment's guarantee of free speech. The Supreme Court has established that symbolic political acts ?such as displaying a red flag or wearing black armbands?come under First Amendment protection. Yet it has sidestepped the issue of whether laws specifically forbidding abuse of the American flag are valid. Says Burt Neuborne of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Our position is that any person attempting to express a political idea is protected by the First Amendment. The flag is entitled to no protection. Certainly the burning or mutilating of the flag will affect some people's sensibilities...
...Catholics who have been allowed to live apart by ecclesiastical courts. For a Catholic who wants to remarry and remain in the church, the only escape from an intolerable marriage is to receive a declaration of nullity from a church tribunal-a decree that says, in effect, that a valid marriage did not exist in the first place...
...although frustration and despair are valid responses to a world so clearly out of control, there are places where one can give time and concern and see results that don't depend on a particular theoretical analysis. What this means is putting the pieces of the world that you still recognize back together inside your head, and then sharing your wholeness with others...
...Vietnamese, for example, are different. Their condition the material necessity of their lives, requires that they fight the American occupying army. They accept that necessity as valid- that necessity gives meaning to their lives...
...fault you here. But we would be disturbed- many of us not of your generation who have gone before- if there were any implication in your valid fresh insight that depth of concern has somehow now made knowledge less valuable, perhaps even unnecessary, or that strong feeling and conviction of rightness have done away with the need for- indeed with respect for- rigorous intellectual discrimination, regard for individuals as opposed to masses of people, and a restraining awareness of the dubiety of all human ends...