ONLY HUMAN: Prostituting the Constitution

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ONLY HUMAN: Prostituting the Constitution
By kathleen peratis
August 26, 2005

Let's say you run an agency administering governmental disaster relief funds and, after a big hurricane, you are told you no longer will be permitted to administer funds unless you publicly announce that you are opposed to gay marriage — whether or not you actually oppose it, whether or not you even have an opinion. Far fetched? Absurd? An outrageous infringement of your right to free speech and its corollary, silence?

Unfortunately, no.