official english legislation

[ANNE V. GILBERT]

dInIs:

> Since this legistlation is proposed and supported by xenophobes and
> racists (with some wiggle room for the truly ignorant), why ask about
> "good conscience"?

The "truly ignorant" may think they're doing immigrants and other
non-English speakers a favor, and that's why they support it. The rest are
just rather cynically using the nativisim and xenophobic streak of some
segments of the population  for their own purposes.
Anne G