Pubdate: Sun, 12 Jan 2003
Source: Calgary Sun, The (CN AB)
Copyright: 2003 The Calgary Sun
Contact:  http://www.fyicalgary.com/calsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/67
Author: Chris Buors
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by MAP
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n027/a04.html

MORAL COMPASSES

Letter writer Gerald R. Hall ought to reconsider what he bases his moral 
standards on because they do not measure up to the four cardinal virtues of 
St. Thomas Aquinas. Prudence, temperance, justice and fortitude are those 
virtues and drug and marriage prohibitions fails every one of those virtues.

In fact, using the coercive force of the state to punish people who do not 
live up to Hall's "morals" can be found on the same moral compass used to 
guide the Christian Crusaders and the Spanish Inquisition.

I fail to see how Canadians are becoming "intolerant" of traditional 
religious and moral values that are still the norm and are still serving 
and will continue to serve generations to come.

No one is punishing him; we are just not allowing him to punish others any 
longer.

Envy, covetousness, lust, gluttony and sloth round out the Seven Deadly Sins.

I hope that resets Hall's moral compass because, as with the crusaders 
before him, he was paving the road to hell with good intentions.

Chris Buors

(Moral compasses are spinning these days.)
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MAP posted-by: Richard Lake