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Freedom!
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Social Theory and Practice
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July 1, 2005
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1. The Value of Freedom
While campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, Senator John McCain was asked in a television interview to explain why he believed that Elian Gonzalez--a young Cuban boy whose mother had died while bringing him by boat to Florida--should remain in the United States. The interviewer wanted to know why a proponent of family values like McCain should be opposed to Elian's being sent back to live with his family in Cuba. McCain's response: "I believe that the most important family value is freedom."
When John McCain said that the most important family value is freedom, he was not talking about the metaphysical problem of ...
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