The Democratic Leadership Council rejects sentimental adherence to past policies as the best way to promote Democratic ideals and principles in the future.
Rather, we are rejecting blind adherence to a phrase which at most has superficial clarity and which conceals underneath that thin veneer all of the problems of line drawing which must be faced in any conscientious effort to apply the Fourth Amendment.
I reject, by and large, the notion of fundamentalism, because I view unerring adherence to any one fixed code or set of beliefs as antithetical to the Golden Rule (the foundation of Islam, Judaism, Christianity and arguably compassionate atheism) and a clear impediment to our collective growth as a race.
Our adherence to systems that treat human beings as capital and collateral reject the image of the Creator and the divine spirit that is imbued in all of us at birth.
Round 2 focused on the Panel's proposed solutions to non-adherence from the first round by inviting participants to agree, reject, or amend each proposed solution and offer new solutions that had not been advanced in Round 1.
One utilitarian response to these objections is to reject a duty to die on rule utilitarian grounds: Suicide would be morally forbidden because general adherence to a rule prohibiting suicide would produce better overall consequences than would general adherence to a rule permitting suicide (Brandt 1975, Pabst Battin 1996, 96 98).
Students may ultimately reject evolution, then, because of a desire to protect cultural identities (e.g., Kahan [2014b]) and/or adherence to a literalist, exclusivist religious schema (e.g., Hill [2011]; Reimer [2010]) rather than because of poor science education per se (e.g., Baker [2013]; Mazur [2004]).
Due regard for State and federal relations as expressed in the doctrine of exhaustion of State remedies and adherence to the function played by certiorari in the business of this Court combine to reject as erroneous the notion that federal District Courts are to be barred from exercising their habeas corpus jurisdiction if certiorari was not first sought here.
Reject one, and you reject the other.
