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Your moral code is easy to decipher, it's in your words, your writing. I respect your moral code and trust you are a moral and ethical man. Refering to an earlier column you wrote, tell me why then do you do as unethical and immoral a thing as to put your words in Sarah Palin's mouth? If she should read your column and answer as you've suggested, that would be your answer, not hers. Will you be there to prop her up for the other hard questions and decisions? I think not. If you fear her answer, there is a part of you that must fear her role as VP. Your fear of her answer tells me that you do not believe she is capable. As to her moral code you seem to admire, she's a conservative Christian, she has a young daugher pregnant and not married, a son who was selling drugs and given the choice of going to jail or join the Army, and she is accused of abuse of power in her position as governor. She has a number of children, but her ambition and time seems to have been for her career. She is being held up as a good Christian with a solid Christian moral code. Do you wonder why it gets so little respect? Sarah Palin, like many in politics, is a wannabe Christian. Puts in on and takes it off, just like her lipstick.

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Sir;...If you are asking me then, NO, NO, and Maybe. But morality is not a matter of codes. It is not a matter of laws. What ever ones community is, is moral because that is the group that protects your rghts. Their view of good is your view of good, and not because it is reasonble, because few have ability to judge their own community one way or the other. Acommunity, on the other hand, can gather a sense of what is moral by what is healthy, since what is immoral is generally unhealthy. It is for this reason that murder and mayham are against most moral codes. They are not good for people. ...Yet nothin so well as morality points out the division we have in society. If I can look at you and say: not my people, and not my morality, it is because we are not one people sharing a common moral guide. This society has many moral codes, and in general, it is completely immoral. There is not one good moral quality to our economy. It gives birth to many immoralities. It leads to economic inequality and economic injustice and there is no place on this earth where economic injustice does not lead to political injustice, and sexual injustice. So let me point out to you sir, that it is not individuals who are moral, but communities, and the individual can only accept his community to have morality. Just the reverse of this; we expect that the economy and the society and the government can be immoral, but that the individual must be moral, and not just moral, but moral with an absolute sense of morality..... This is just one more injustice. To impose a morality you do not follow is just one more example of violence and coersion. If you want to see morality, follow the individual home to his true community because there he will be moral. If you want your society moral, build it into a community. Make the community into a defense of rights. Give it a sense of time so that it can judge the character of the individual, and guide him to goodness, and to health. A true community can envision tomorrow, and like a life boat, it carries its members into that future together. It does not throw people over board like our society does, but then, our society is not a community....Thanks... Sweeney