A house divided

Fri., July 20, 2018

Our Founding Fathers were not willing to resolve the moral problem of slavery. This led to the Civil War and decades of virulent incivility and violence that is still with us today. Now we are facing a similar problem.

We are a nation deeply divided about many subjects, not least among them key moral fundamentals like the right to life, the nature of gender and the definition of marriage.

All combine to form another abyss of irreconcilable differences which we might, like our founding fathers, be unwilling to resolve justly, without more incivility and violence.

A house divided cannot stand.

James Flynn

Spokane

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