“Any custom or law disapproved by the law and word of God, it behooves us to set ourselves against it. Think of a great citizenship licensing an immorality for revenue. Think of licensing immorality to get tax money out of it. It’s blood money! And the word of God says, “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, who establisheth a city by iniquity!” (Habakkuk 2:13) Think of licensing immorality to get tax money to run our schools and to run our public enterprises. Out of blood money! Vampire bats! Here is a blundering ethic that is to the last degree awful. And the gibraltar of bad politics is that sort of thing. Political harlotry marks that sort of behavior. Men can do better than that. And oh this nation, how she needs to consider the plight of other nations and what could be the plight of our own nation. In a day not far off.”
- George W. Truett preaching a sermon entitled, “Paying the Price To Do Right” some time around 1940 at First Baptist Church, Dallas, TX.
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