Greetings and welcome to the Daily Article Podcast.

Today is Tuesday, July 2, 2024.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison.

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Donald Trump is entitled to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his

official acts. However, it added that a president enjoys no immunity for unofficial acts and not

everything the president does is official. The case now returns to a lower court to assess whether

Mr. Trump's January 6th actions

were official or private. President Biden responded last night, warning that the decision means

that there are virtually no limits on what the president can do. Other reactions were swift and

mostly on partisan lines. However, here's the foundational issue no court or law

can resolve unilaterally,

whether the actions of a president or anyone else are moral.

Harry Truman acted within his powers as commander-in-chief

when he decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan,

though historians continue to debate the morality of his decision. Presidents

from George Washington to Joe Biden have been disparaged for actions that their critics

considered to be wrong, but were not illegal. The obvious reason laws cannot ensure morality

is that we can neither make a law for every ethical issue nor enforce every law we make.

Unless people, including American presidents, are innately moral, no human court can make them so.

On this week celebrating our nation's independence, I am focusing on paradoxical reasons I am grateful to be an American.

Today's news leads me to such gratitude through an interview of profound significance. I consider sociologist James Davidson Hunter

to be the most perceptive evangelical scholar of culture in America today. His 1991 book,

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