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As a country, we define America as a land of opportunity where men and women are created equally: a just society in which oppression and discrimination are archaic, deplorable institutions of our ignorant forefathers. Ironic, then, in a country that espouses equity, human rights, and freedom of choice, that a gay man is beaten and left for dead; ironic that a young woman is harangued and even physically assaulted when she attempts to enter an …

…any of these moral laws POSSIBLY be effective if the ones who set them in motion are exercising the inalienable right to hypocrisy? What practical solution can we devise to make everyone happy? Obviously, there can be no total acceptance of laws, as well as no total rejection of them. Drug use, prostitution, abortion, sodomy, and camel-hunting will undoubtedly continue despite every well-intentioned effort of the lawmakers to protect the majority of voters from themselves.