Nor is he wrong to call for us to refuse to affirm wrongdoing with our votes.
Her application for citizenship was denied in 1924 because she refused to affirm that she would bear arms in defense of the United States.
He said that Ms. Ward was not singling out gay men and lesbians, and that she would also refuse to affirm heterosexuals who sought counseling about their adultery.
(While Secretary Rice has said recently that overthrowing the mullahs is not United States policy, President Bush has pointedly refused to affirm her statements).
"When I refused to affirm this lie that was offered to me, when I refused to write a petition, Zaitsev literally said the following: 'Then harsh measures will be taken against your wife and child,' " Mr. Sannikov said, according to a transcript of his testimony published to the opposition Web site, Charter 97.
During a speech in Brussels last May, the president refused to affirm his commitment to Article 5 of the treaty — which holds that an attack against one alliance member is considered an attack against all members.
"I think that's very important for the public to know, that today, the secretary of education, before this committee, refused to affirm that she would put forward a program that would ban discrimination based on LGBTQ status of students or would ban discrimination based on religion," he said.
Refusing to respect and affirm a transgender student's gender identity communicates a clear, negative message: there is something wrong with the student that warrants this unequal treatment".
In the last week, I have witnessed all too many members of the LGBTQ community tell me with their mouths that they refuse to hide, they affirm with their mouths that they will not live in fear, but this is the story they speak with their mouths.
In his 1992 Boston Review essay on Yates, the novelist Stewart O'Nan says: "Yates refuses to spoonfeed us the usual redeeming, life-affirming plot twist that makes everything better.
