Sentences with phrase «mental nonconformists»

This tolerance, which as Weeks points out has today too often been transformed into hostility and an invitation to treatment, is part of our lost legacy of innocence — a fact made more apparent by the forbearance shown to mental, physical and gender idiosyncracies in many aboriginal cultures, not least the native American, where sexual and mental nonconformists were allowed dignified co-existence with their kinspeople.