President Nixon isn't signing any admission of guilt, whether Jerry Ford pardons him or not. The lawyer almost turned around and went back to the airport right then and there. We've spent quite a bit of time here on the radio discussing this topic of grudges and resentment. If they've done wrong, and ought to go to jail - and now they don't go to jail, it sounds like, well, maybe they didn't do the wrong thing. Maybe they didn't hurt us as bad as we've let on.
Forgiveness seems to undo our moral right to be right.
You know there are things that are right and wrong in the world. You are able to make choices. I hold you responsible for this action. Let me go on and share Sinton's next paragraph with you, and notice here that forgiving someone is not at all the same as excusing them. Not the same at all.