Watched the story of Sir Thomas More last night, thinking of course about Walter Hoye, who founded the Issues4Life Foundation to bring to light the holocaust of the unborn happening right under our very noses.
Just as Thomas did not waiver on the sanctity of marriage, Walter does not waiver on the protection of human life.
Just as Thomas counted the cost and paid the ultimate price for standing on truth, Walter too is looking at the near certainty of a prison sentence yet will not allow himself to be silenced by succombing to the judge’s ”stay-away” order (see prior post).
Just as Thomas continued his appeal to justice even to the end of his life, Walter intends to appeal his case and seek to have Oakland’s unjust and unconstitutionally vague “bubble ordinance” overturned through lawful means.
Just as Thomas, Walter did everything he could humanly do to stay within the parameters of the ordinance, yet he, as Thomas, was convicted.
And just as Thomas was chastised by his son-in-law, William Roper, for not going after his betrayers, so Walter, I’m sure, will be asked to take his fight to the “next level.”
But just like Thomas, Walter will resolutely defend the existence of a legal system that has unjustly taken away his freedom, because the alternative is unthinkable.
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?
