Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12. 2.

This is resistance and reformation on the Fight, laugh, Feast Network.

The great liberties we enjoy in America were originally secured against the arbitrary and fickle whims of men and movements by the rule of law.

Our social system was not designed to depend upon the benevolence of the magistrates or the altruism of the wealthy or the condescension of the powerful,

every citizen, rich or poor, man or woman, native-born or legal immigrant,

hail or handicapped, young or old, was to be equal under the standard of unchanging,

immutable and impartial justice.

As Thomas Payne wrote in Common Sense, the powerful booklet that helped to spark the war for independence.

In America, the law is king.

If left to the mere discretion of human authorities, even the best-intentioned statutes,

edicts, and ordinances inevitably devolve into some form of tyranny. There must therefore be an absolute against which no encroachment of prejudice or preference may interfere. There must

be a foundation that the winds of change and the waters of circumstance cannot erode. There must be a basis

for law that can be depended upon at all times, and in all places, even in every situation.

Apart from this uniquely Christian innovation in the affairs of men and nations, there can be no

freedom. There never has been before, and there never will be again. Our founding fathers

knew that only too well. The opening refrain, the Declaration of Independence, affirms the necessity

of that kind of absolute standard upon which the rule of law can then be established.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed

by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers

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