Integrity is the virtue of remaining loyal to one's convictions and values. A man who is able to hold to a principled course of action, to pursue his values relentlessly, without compromise, and to do so under duress and the scorn of others, deserves our deepest respect.
Compromise in the defense of political expediency is no virtue; fanaticsm in the defense of moral integry is no vice.
Your very life, and mine, may some day depend on it. They took Terri first. There will be others. Mankind has already witnessed where evil proliferated, simply because too many 'moral men' refused to take a stand, to otherwise have looked injustice and intimidation square in the eyes, and to not have backed down.