If sexual orientation is immutable, discrimination against gays and lesbians is more like discrimination based on race or gender.
In ethics, Cudworth's outstanding work is A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality, directed against Puritan Calvinism, against the divine omnipotence discussed by René Descartes, and against the Hobbesian reduction of morality to civil obedience.
But his position on the euro is immutable: he is against joining in principle, whatever the situation, whatever the state of the EU, now and for ever.
The fifth and final season of "The Wire," which begins Sunday night, sinks deep into the Simonian bog, adding a new strand of narrative — the city room of a failing newspaper — to the dealers, cops, addicts, teachers and city officials who collide, and sometimes collude, but mostly bump up helplessly against immutable barriers of corruption, inertia and economic decline.
It is the tendency of philosophers to deny the obvious, to neglect surfaces in favor of what is allegedly behind them, out of habitual weakness and anxiety to prefer the stable and immutable over and against change and becoming.
But this truth runs so hard against the immutable laws of narrative, in which a season is a moral lesson in character or its absence, that it is still taboo to say it.
For decades, Israel has tried to find a way to live in peace with our Arab neighbors, but all attempts have crashed against an immutable, irrational wall: they will not accept this "thorn" in the side of what they say is their ummah, or global Muslim community.
Nevertheless, these B cells were capable of responding to T cell help in vitro, which speaks against an immutable susceptibility of immature B cells to tolerance induction.
Still showing at Norwich cathedral, the exhibition proposes affinities between Norfolk and the Hebrides by focusing on aspects of local culture – including places of worship and boat-building workshops – which, in Denyer's words, "represent ideas and habits once considered immutable and which now struggle against an increasingly mechanised and secular society".
Most Americans recognize that being gay is not a "lifestyle" but an immutable identity, and that outlawing discrimination against gay people who want to serve their country is, as the admiral said, "the right thing to do".
