RELIGIOUS, MORAL, AND POLITICAL DUTIES.
What is morally wrong cannot be made practically right. The laws of morality are taught in the Bible; they are unchangeable truths; no sophistry, no expediency, no compromise can set them aside.
If politics are the science of government, and if civil government is a divine institution, intended to protect the rights of all; if “an injury done to the meanest subject is an injury done to the whole body;” and if “rulers must be just, ruling in the fear of God,” all legislation should be based on moral duty. Any enactments that have not this basis are, in the Divine sight, null and void. If man is endowed by nature with inalienable rights, no legislation can rightfully wrest them from him. Any attempt to do it is an infraction of the moral law. Our religious, moral, and political duties are identical and inseparable. It is the duty of all Christian legislators so to actnow, as they know all must act when truth and righteousness shall have a universal prevalence on the earth.
Lindley Murray Moore