Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“equal” does not mean “the same”. It’s the difference in counting one’s assets in silver, gold, paper or real estate; property. Not the same but equal, like sovereign personhood to be who one is intended to be.
“It is not self-evident that all human beings are equal (sorry Tom), but it is evident that we are all equal in our dignity as persons before God and equal in our membership in the (binary) human species.
… We are not all equal in our abilities or in how we “develop” our abilities.”
– paraphrased from Six Great Ideas, Mortimer Alder.