"Love, Not Dove" -- Thus read the T-Shirts worn today in Gainesville, Florida, as NY Times reported.
The many people wearing those T-shirts were trying to distinguish themselves from a certain priest in their town, a pastor, whose recent threat to an act of vandalism reminded me of the Middle Ages. They didn't do this because they believed in Islam: They did this because they wished to withhold that long revered American principle -- that anyone should be free to hold his or her beliefs in private. They wished the world to know that they are better than him.
An exercise in free speech, and a lesson in tolerance, that makes you certain America is bound to lead for decades to come.
What better way could be to celebrate the best of America, and to commemorate the victims of 9/11?
Shana Tova
15 years ago
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