Clinton needs psychiatric help more than spiritual

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: September 21, 1998| Author: CAL THOMAS | Copyright information

It can be dangerous to be a leader's religious counselor.

In the case of Henry VIII, Sir Thomas More was executed after he refused to grant Catholic Church approval so the king could divorce Catherine of Aragon and to acknowledge Henry as the supreme head of the Church of England. More was a man of principle who upheld his church's standard, but Henry started his own church, which had a more liberal attitude toward such things as divorce.

Henry died from a venereal disease after ...

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