Darwin Catholic: "Law as Moral Symbol"

Darwin has an excellent post on the law as moral symbol. I highly recommend that you go and read it:

... I would maintain that there are certain stances (those which are sufficiently morally or politically repugnant to us) which should simply rule a candidate out from ever receiving our support, no matter how unlikely the offensive stance is to actually result in any real political action...

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Yeah, what he said.