Thought for the Day
Aug. 21st, 2008 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bcholmesScience doesn't matter, the Library insists, it's what Congress was thinking of when it passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. "Everett Dirksen," a reporter said to me in the hall outside Court, "wasn't thinking of Diane Schroer when he helped pass the Civil Rights Act." "Probably true," I said as she headed off to meet her cameraman, "but James Madison wasn't thinking of TV when he penned the First Amendment either."
— America in Transition: A Transgender Special Forces Colonel vs. the Library of Congress