Redstate

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We all have many loyalties: loyalty to employers, to friends, to family, to God. Some of the hardest decisions in life come when our loyalties conflict, and we must choose among them.

For men of principle, our highest loyalty must be to truth, which is to say to God. Others may place a higher loyalty on friendship and political ties. Such other men rationalize and excuse improper conduct to protect their friends. Men of principle cannot, lest they become the relativists they justly criticize.

However, loyalty to truth does not mean forgetting or abandoning friendship and other ties. Truth requires only acknowledgment, not desertion. But the acknowledgment must come.

I do not pretend to know the truth about the current affair. The attackers are certainly ruthless, venemous, bitter individuals, intent on personal destruction of all who dare criticize them. Their charges should be subjected to the most intense scrutiny before believed for one moment. But where that scrutiny reveals some truth, that truth must be accepted and acknowledged, not excused and rationalized.