Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?

Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?

Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity.

The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizens are subjected to state-sponsored religious exercises, the State disavows its own duty to guard and respect that sphere of inviolable conscience and belief which is the mark of a free people.

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.