"Remember when this issue first came up how you called him a bigot and a racist just for discussing the topic."

This is just a lie, and a pretty silly one at that. You make things up as you go along, you poor thing.

"What the majority thinks ! God forbid that we pay any attention to that."

A huge majority was in favour of keeping hanging just before we abolished it. A huge majority in Germany in the 30s supported Hitler. We should pay attention to it all right, and then decide that we are not sheep.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. -- Henry David Thoreau