An American Exodus

I've been meaning to note a post on Catholic (?) Kerry Watch:

The greatest scandal is not that CINO politicians, like Judas before them, have sold Christ out for the electoral equivalent of 30 pieces of silver, but that so many heirs of the Apostles, like Pontius Pilate, are washing their hands of the blood of the innocent lest Caesar be discomforted.

As for the response, in particular, the American Life League's recent ad campaign, as Flannery O'Connor once observed, when the world is deaf, you have no choice but to shout. Indeed, if uncompromising defenders of life are folks on the fringe, if defenders of the Faith of Our Fathers are a remnant, let us then shout all the louder, and may our cries, please God, join those of countless victims whose silent screams call out to You for justice for, in this lost world, we have no other hope.

The attempts of certain pundits and propagandists to paint their opposition as "fringe" — as if those who don't take the easy way of joining the crowd are less likely to be correct — brought to mind a line from Exodus 23:

Neither shall you allege the example of the many as an excuse for doing wrong, nor shall you, when testifying in a lawsuit, side with the many in perverting justice.

Some Bibles translate that as "do not follow the majority when they do wrong." Ancient advice and instruction remains relevant throughout the ages exactly for the reason that it is so hard to follow.

ADDENDUM:
Exodus 23 also offers some guidance should the Church be attacked, for its efforts, through its tax-exempt status:

Never take a bribe, for a bribe blinds even the most clear-sighted and twists the words even of the just.