Ideally, we want to engage critical thinking skills with cleverness and reason so sound, it startles. Clever thinkers and writers can do this well.

This is good. I wish I’d thought of it.

Now, while we all might agree that adultery is not a desirable thing, we must recognize that it is often a difficult choice in the life of a man…

Now, while I am personally opposed to adultery, I do not believe that I can impose my anti-adultery views on the pro athlete community at large. I believe it is perfectly fine for a person to be privately anti-adultery, but as a prominent athlete I must be publicly pro-choice.

That’s just a sample of this argument I consider to be a brilliant but simple analogy of pro-choice Catholic politicians and their attitude toward the Church and the magisterium…..as if it were a corporation.

My contract states that I must be anti-adultery, and so I accept my contract. But this is a private contract and should have no bearing on the public policy I support or on my public behavior.

Read the whole thing. Really. Point made.

More than a tip of the hat, Patrick. Well done.