X & DP

[J Cullen]

This always has puzzled me, too, particularly coming from a group 
that reveres someone who was duly convicted of the capital offense of 
being a Messiah and promptly executed. At least the Catholic bishops 
are consistent in their support of life, although they are more 
likely to call a politician on the carpet for supporting abortion 
than they are to criticize one for supporting the death penalty. Even 
so, they have helped stem the tide toward renewing capital punishment 
in several states. And some fundamentalist preachers and 
televangelists buckled in calling for clemency toward Karla Faye 
Tucker, the axe-murderer who became born-again while on Death Row in 
Texas but whose appeal for mercy was mocked by George W. Bush in his 
interview with Talk Magazine.

-- Jim Cullen


>Does anyone know how support of the death penalty became the 
>"Christian" position, as defined by the Christian right? Didn't JC 
>challenge him without sin to cast the first stone?
>
>Doug