[The Urban Sombrero]

Fallible human beings, prone to error and egregious wrongs, vulnerable to groupthink and hateful intolerance, best observe human dignity by honoring freedom of conscience insomuch as is possible. If a man choose a lifestyle or practice that is an affront to God and so mar the image of the Creator within him, that is a tragic use of freedom of conscience, but of all the creatures, God gave humankind alone the capacity to say "yes" or "no" to him. This is a penultimate statement of human dignity. Freedom of conscience unto the individual is trampled upon by much religion and many forms of government. The highest ideal of human dignity finds expression in the highest ideals that existed as seeds in the United States Constitution.