Don't enforce them. Tell the troopers to stand by while the bartenders pour. Mahatma Gandhi condemned passivity as strongly as he advocated non-violence. He said injustice must be resisted. No doubt the non-violent way is always the best, but where that does not come naturally the violent way is both necessary and honorable.
Inaction is rank cowardice and unmanly.
It must be shunned at all cost. Upstate Citizens for Equality offers the people of Central New York a non-violent outlet to express their outrage at this intolerable situation. I hope with all my heart that violence can be avoided. But I cannot advocate capitulation in the face of evil. Susan Galbraith is managing editor of The Upstate Citizen, the newspaper of Upstate Citizens for Equality.