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Fran Hutchinson

There's a big difference between protected freedom and vindicated prejudice

RE: “A simple quiz” [Viewpoint, Sept. 5]:

Thank you! There is a vast difference between a “freedom” that must be protected and a prejudice that seeks legal vindication.

I am a Taoist, and our beliefs coincidentally include many of Jesus's teachings (before he was born... some things are universal, no?) but we do not worship a deity, believing instead that our souls and salvation are in our own acts and responsibility toward others.

We believe there is no spiritual being who can erase our slate or forgive our trespasses; we believe that all of our chances to be redeemed begin and end with our own actions and that willfully failing to do so is shameful in itself.

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