He multiplied Colorado's contribution 29 times, adding he thinks using energy conservation funds for such a purpose is valid. Quite frankly, we need to be forward-thinking here. William Stringfellow perceived a moral crisis in America in the late sixties and early seventies. Most of all, it is needed in the Presidency, as compared say, to defendants in political trials or those vulnerable to preventive detention or those murdered under a guise of legality or those driven into exile or those whose lives are squandered in vainglorious war. It is so desperately needed precisely because the only moral authority of the State is that which is disclosed as its last authority, which is death.
Lions are the kings of the beasts because they dominate the weaker animals.
Ultimately they can kill them. The author of Revelation, facing the paralyzed conscience of the political leadership, had no desire for a lion. Instead he preferred a lamb. The image of the lamb is important in this book and in church history. Lambs are not designed for longevity.