As a pastor of a church in Gainesville for more than 20 years, I have seen elections come and go. As we enter one of the most controversial in my memory, my thoughts go to 1938 Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland when he penned these immortal words. “For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time.”