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Originally posted by Not Bob
That evil, hypocritical motherfucker. Is he going after (Catholic) Governor Jeb Bush for signing death warrants in Florida?
(I won't even mention all of the violations of the "social justice" teachings by economic conservatives.)
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It has been explained to me by intelligent devout conservative Catholics that the death penalty is OK if there are not effective alternative means of justice (e.g., no imprisonment or whatever available). They acknowledged (I think) that the death penalty is inappropriate in the US. I think there is a general feeling that murderers are damned so it's less bad to kill them than to kill innocent babies.
I have some sympathy with getting people who are pro-choice or pro-death penalty or OK with people being gay out of the Catholic church. I mean, seriously, such people are like my stupid college roommate who said she was a vegetarian except she ate chicken and seafood. That's just not a vegetarian. That's someone who doesn't eat red meat.* If you are pro-choice and want the ceremony, go be Episcopalian.
*"Pork, the other white meat" is bullshit crap advertising. Pork is red meat.
