We are not an assimilative, homogeneous society, but a facilitative, pluralistic one, in which we must be willing to abide someone else’s unfamiliar or even repellant practice because the same tolerant impulse protects our own indiosyncracies.

- Justice Brennan in Michael H. v. Gerald D., 491 U.S. 110 (1989)

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