From a column by Rob Asghar in the Ashland (Ore.) Daily Tidings on lawsuits over offensive remarks in the workplace (“Without a doubt, PC has gone too far”, Nov. 22):
The correlation between litigiousness and gracelessness is no accident. Within religious communities, the term “legalist” denotes a person who gives little grace to others if they transgress even the slightest religious commandment. (This is especially ironic when the religion is supposed to be about grace.)
For our hypersensitive secular society, we too have become legalists who feel that to sue is human and to forgive is a crime. And we are all poorer for this trend.
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