Man's law is not the final authority

To the editor:

Calls to separate Bill Clinton's sexcapades from his roll as leader of the free world is yet another demonstration of the depths to which the American national character has sunk. A leader must answer to a higher authority. Without this limit, men see themselves as the highest authority. Leaders who believe they are above the law often end up believing they are the law. The evil side of man takes over.

Genocide of millions of humans has occurred in the twentieth century, alone, in the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, and Nazi Germany to list just a few of the atrocities. Civilization is but a thin facade. Death by government is a modern hazard when leaders are unconstrained.

The deceiving hiss of the serpent can be heard from across the millennia. "Be ye like a God. Man, not God, may determine what is wrong and what is right. Eat of the fruit of knowledge." Satan is alive and well.

God's law, the ten commandments, is banished from public places. Children are turned in their mother's womb to enable them to come out headfirst so their emerging craniums can be jabbed with an ice pick during partial birth abortions. Jack Kevorkian is helping to do in the infirm and the oldsters.

Limits of social acceptability continues to expand. Who knows? Maybe by the time the weight of the baby boomers starts sinking social security, euthanizing older unproductive members of our society will be the norm.

Bad things happen to a people adopting the belief that man's law is the final authority. Human nature will not be denied. The President's flaunting of society's mores is more than private acts by consenting adults. Character in leadership counts. Sexcapades are merely a symptom of a dangerous disease.

Influence peddling to Red China, wholesale transfer of classified technology, allowing Chinese control of the Panama Canal, the COSCO base in LA, what can the march of history have in store as a consequence of America's approval rating for Bill Clinton? To where are we being led?

Steve Marble, Sequim, WA