They've gotten away with voicing their "opposition" without anyone noting that they've declined to so much as utter a single word that could even conceivably qualify as a legitimate rationale.
The court reaffirmed that finding in 2003, while also reaffirming that diversity was a legitimate rationale.
If the state lacks a legitimate rationale for imposing on Americans a heterosexual definition of marriage, it seems pretty likely that it likewise lacks a legitimate rationale for imposing on Americans a monogamous definition of marriage.
"Many loyal Muslims," he writes, believe that the September 11th attacks "justified the American assault and have given it a legitimate rationale for reoccupying the Islamic world".
The free expression of contrary and dissenting opinion is not a legitimate rationale for internment, despite vague and clichéd state concerns for national security.
From the Bush administration's perspective, Iraq's refusal to accept what Vice President Dick Cheney calls a "go anywhere, any time kind of inspection regime" provides a legitimate rationale for military action aimed at toppling Saddam Hussein.
"Our concern is that the guidance has been deliberately drafted to put charities off speaking out even when they have a legitimate rationale for expressing their views on the referendum," he said.
In other words, have DPS approaches a legitimate rationale to be implemented?
Yes, I've heard the argument that those who earn over $250,000 are a small group - as if small numbers is a legitimate rationale for profiling.
We would argue, however, that this is still not a legitimate rationale for rejecting proffered evidence a priori.
There might be a legitimate rationale to relax the level of evidence required to inform policy within a given context, but that does not change the nature of the evidence itself.
