Ake:

I am sorry--that's a recipe for disaster. Consider, for example, that the fanatics who flew the Planes of 9-11 were striking out against evil as they saw it, regardless of the law.

The code of the land here in the United States includes civil rights and a commitment to equality under the rule of law.

When a church seeks to erode that code in matters of the commons, rather than the pricate affaitrs of the flock within the church, they have violated their social contract with the nation as surely as an individual does who tries to punch out an abortion clinic doctor.


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