Below you'll find a list of all posts from August, 2016
Thomas More, as the chancellor of England, the king’s lawyer, refused to sign an oath which would have vindicated the King in his proposed marriage to Anne Boleyn. He refused to bend to the king’s order that he sign an oath declaring true what many knew to be false. His signature would simply be one of hundreds. More’s story is …
We are citizens of the United States, a Constitutional democracy. Our Constitution is a social contract that all of us, whatever our faith, will tolerate each other though we may hate each other. Too many of us tolerate people we also slander and secretly despise. “Thou shalt tolerate,” possibly our only moral absolute, supports the social contract, thereby restraining Americans …
