The Rebellion of Yale Marratt (93 page)

 

 

Saul paused. The quiet seriousness of his manner and the sincerity of
his words delivered without oratorical effect or bombast had captured
the jury and the entire courtroom. Saul continued. "While I have stated
that the constitutionality of the law on bigamy will not be challenged
on religious grounds under the First Amendment, I do believe that these
words spoken by a lawyer, in a bigamy case in 1889, should be exhumed
from the dusty reports of the United States and reviewed in the light
of the wars and cataclysm of human despair that has visited the world
in the past five decades. These words were written by a man who never
heard of the Kaiser or Hitler or Mussolini or Khrushchev. They reflect a
philosophy which is dying in the world today . . . it is your sacred duty
to nurse the flame of this kind of thinking before it is extinguished
and reason and love and free human beings vanish from the world."

 

 

Saul picked up a leather-bound volume and read:

 

 

"Religious liberty is a right embracing more than mere opinion,
sentiment, faith or belief. It includes all human conduct that gives
expression to the relation between man and God; it includes all frames
of feeling, all forms of faith, and acts of worship to which man is
impelled by his hopes or fears; it includes the coitus or outward
expression of the religious sentiment; it means entire freedom of
creed, thought and worship with a restriction upon the government
that it cannot go beyond the overt act; in other words it includes all
manifestations or exercise of religion which are not in violation of
peace or good order. . . ."

 

 

Saul smiled at Yale. "When the defendant came to me to draft the
charter for his foundation called Challenge, I was doubtful as to the
sanity of this man. Today, I know that Challenge is not a muddleheaded
philosophy or religion which calls for other-worldly sanctions for its
existence, but a practical philosophy of living which, if it should gain
acceptance by a majority of mankind, could truly spell the beginning of
the Golden Age. The decisions to be reached in this court are beyond
the problem of whether the law at the moment will allow this marriage
of Yale, Anne and Cynthia to continue." Saul paused a moment and said,
"No . . . the real problem here is not so much one of law, but whether
at this juncture in the history of man, you . . . the men and women who
hear these words . . . wrapped as you are in mortal clay, can transcend
your human limitations and judge like Gods.

 

 

"The defense calls for its first witness, Yale Marratt. . . ."

 

 

IN THESE TIMES
OF SEXUAL AND
MORAL UPHEAVAL,
ROBERT RIMMER
IS THE BOLDEST NOVELIST OF THEM ALL!
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THE REBELLION OF
YALE MARRATT
HAS TAKEN ON  THE WHOLE OF AMERICAN
MORALITY AND TURNED THE STORY OF ONE
MAN'S UNCONVENTIONAL SEXUAL LIFE INTO
A NATIONAL CONTROVERSY.
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YOU MAY NOT DARE TO LIVE THIS WAY --
BUT YOUR ATTITUDES TOWARD SEXUAL BE-
HAVIOR WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN!
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THE REBELLION OF YALE MARRATT
IS AN AVON GIANT -- ONE OF A SERIES OF
FAMOUS BOOKS OF EXTRAORDINARY SCOPE AND
INTEREST PUBLISHED AT POPULAR PRICES.
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