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The Doctrine of Intolerance

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 28, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 9.

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The Doctrine of Intolerance

A President of the United States, now deceased, once said that the best thing to do with a bad law was to rigidly enforce it until the people should demand its repeal. This was deemed a wise saying, by some people, especially by those who desired to see certain laws enforced that others deemed bad. The practice is based on the theory of doing evil that good may come. It is the doctrine of intolerance, the doctrine on which the Inquisition was built. Any law that infringes the natural rights of any individual ought to be repealed without appeal from the people. Law that does not protect the rights of the minority is unjust law.