Comments on: A Lesson from History http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2223 Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 20 May 2013 15:45:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: RLM http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2223&cpage=1#comment-19329 RLM Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:41:55 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2223#comment-19329 "The fact that one has no choice but to obey an unjust law, because of fear of the consequences, doesn’t render the injustice any less galling and oppressive." What about the spiritual consequences? How do you answer God for your cooperation with evil? What about the fact that said obedience to an unjust law is now being used against the Church on a national level? It seems like religious entities in NY weren't considering all of the consequences - only those they'd have to bear in their own immediate future. “The fact that one has no choice but to obey an unjust law, because of fear of the consequences, doesn’t render the injustice any less galling and oppressive.”

What about the spiritual consequences? How do you answer God for your cooperation with evil? What about the fact that said obedience to an unjust law is now being used against the Church on a national level? It seems like religious entities in NY weren’t considering all of the consequences – only those they’d have to bear in their own immediate future.

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