“Tell the Truth” - "I'm going to condense that [scripture] down today to verse 16 [Exodus 20:1-17] : "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor." That ends our scripture. On my way in to church this morning I listened to part of an interview on the radio with former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. When the interviewer asked him about the importance of the Supreme Court and the law the court is meant to uphold; his response could have been written by Moses himself. He talked of how basic community and interpersonal relationships would break down without the guidance of the law. That same thing we've been talking about for weeks right now he reiterated himself. Because it is that pivotal to good governance and good relationships that we follow the structure and the guidance that God has given us in the commandments. Many of the biggest stories in the news this past week revolved around 2 topics. 1) Freedom of speech, and 2) Truthfulness in that speech. There were stories about protests and law enforcement action clearing out protestors around the nations campuses. In particular Columbia University. There were stories about former President Trump being fined nine-thousand dollars for violating a gag order imposed on him by the court. Free speech and honesty of speech, whatever your opinion of the politics involved, dominated the news in our country this week. 
As I drove home from committee meetings this Wednesday night NPR was airing a debate on freedom of speech. It had been pre-recorded and the reason they were re-airing it was because it spoke about freedom of speech removed from the current issues going on in our country; where people simply debated the necessity both for freedom of speech and honesty of speech. Easily all of half of all national political messaging today has become about attack ads disparaging the opposition, no matter whom that opposition is, rather than about honestly describing problems and discussing solutions. One survey I read said, I don't know how accurate it was, the average person is dishonest 21 times a day. I don't know how they arrived at that conclusion, but it's a sad conclusion. In the artificial intelligence world...Worship Video HERE.


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