Three women with criminal records broke into and vandalized a nuclear silo as some sort of a protest. Now they are in jail. Good. The women, who are nuns, appear to believe that their faith should exempt them from the law. The slippery slope argument is, of course, one to use with care, but the corollary of these nuns’ attitude is, ultimately, the right to impose their own beliefs on the rest of us regardless of the democratic process – theocracy, in other words.

Well, at least their sentences will give them time to reread the Bible. They should start with Luke 20, verse 25.