In light of Jay’s admonition to the Governor of Florida that it would be wrong to violate “the rule of law” by using his executive authority to intercede on Terri Schiavo’s behalf, and in light of acting federal judge Bill Pryor’s horrific complicity in her forced starvation by refusing her appeal when it came before him (yes, he voted against her once; he was out for the second vote), following is a quote from:

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful until it became risky. —C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)