I believe someone a few posts back quoted “A Man for All Seasons” (paraphrasing): When we cut down all the trees in the forest of laws to get at the Devil, we are left with no shelter if the Devil turns on us.

While I wholeheartedly endorse these words, Sir Thomas is speaking about an intergovernmental dispute, kingly law v. ecclesiastical law. If you believe, like many of us here at the BC, that we are essentially waging an existential war for liberty and survival, the stakes are necessarily much higher than a dispute about marriage laws.

Like W said, when fighting for existence, many of our cherished moral beliefs must fall to the wayside as our instincts surge to the forefront. “Nature can’t evolve a species that hasn’t the will to survive.”

While I would have to say I agree with most of what’s been said here, aren’t we really saying that The Ends Justify the Means? Have we finally rid ourselves of those troublesome priests?