Christian church
leaders in Ireland and Britain call for broad moral discussions in
the face of public efforts to change laws and practices on marriage,
abortion, the role of women clergy, prostitution and the sex trade.
Come, you are too
severe a moraler: as the time, the place, and the condition of this
country
stands, I could heartily wish this had not befallen;
but,
since it is as it is, mend it for your own good.
Mending
it for our own good is complex in the midst of calls
from quarters embroiled in sexual, financial and other difficulties
and scandals.
When I did hear
The motley fool
thus moral on the time,
My lungs began to
crow like chanticleer
That fools should
be so deep contemplative;
It is past time for
church leaders to humbly and morally reflect on the churches'
relationships with investment banks and arms manufacturers; to
cogently acknowledge that best practice in child protection was not
always present and is not currently assured to public satisfaction;
that the understanding of marriage today is changing as it has done
over the centuries; that it is possible to be pro-life, while
accepting the right of women to choose to be pregnant or not; that
controlling conception is a contemporary, human right;
and yet, to say
the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom
as the
morality of imprisonment.
And that being
moral is a human creation, one that is continually contested and
re-invented in the cauldron of our lives day-to-day.
Fortune is an
excellent moral.
Being moral is a
cultural and evolutionary form available to all humans.
Applying this to
that, and so to so;
For love can comment upon every woe.
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