Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Perhaps the most disturbing attitude among some of the new moralists is a pervasive failure of discrimination—what I call "the false democracy" and the "false equality." The fact that this failure is intentional, deriving from a principled opposition to discriminations of any sort, makes it seem no less idiotic to me.

(Henry David Aiken, "The New Morals," Harper's Magazine 236 [February 1968]: 58-72, at 70)

Note from KBJ: When I read this passage a few weeks ago, I thought immediately of the movement to redefine "marriage" so as to allow two men or two women to marry. There is no logic behind it; it is rooted in a desire to be "open-minded" and "tolerant." People who refuse to discriminate are not open-minded; they are mindless.