In 1962, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously said, "It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." Dr. King was referring, of course, to the need for federal intervention to protect the lives of African Americans from mob violence in the South.
Less than a half-century...
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