Excellent logic Heyjoeyo. There is no end to hypocracy, especially when it comes to views from the Catholic church.
Perhaps a little clarification would be in order so that all will understand your point of reference. Are you stating that the views to which you are about to refer are the official views of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church as expressed through the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hartford, His Excellency, Henry Joseph Mansell? If so, please so state. If not, please so state. You wouldn't want to cause confusion through misinformation, would you?
Two weeks from today, the great State of Connecticut is scheduled to put a serial killer to death. It is the first execution in over 45 years in this state (sort of the "anti-Texas"). The real difficulty here is that the condemned guy wants to be executed and the state is moving ahead as scheduled.
What's the beef with freedom of choice in this instance?
The really funny thing is that the Quinnapiac University Poll (highly respected for accuracy), found that the general population of CT agreed with the US population and were pro-death penalty (58%), BUT when they polled the CT Catholic population they found that 71% were PRO DEATH PENALTY, but 80% ANTI ABORTION.
Oops! Got it wrong again, twice, didn't you? You first laid the responsibility upon the Catholic Church, next you lay the responsibility on 'the CT Catholic population. A cut & paste from the Quinnipiac website follows. One thing that most pollsters never consider when a person 'admits' to being Catholic is that while he may have been baptized as an infant, as many millions are, he may have allowed his faith to lapse, as many millions have done, which If anything, 'taints' the results with respect to Catholics. In any event, the poll seems to show that those who responded to poll who claimed Catholicity are pretty much in step with the rest of the Connecticutans, or whatever they're called.
Connecticut voters back death penalty, but more prefer life without parole, Quinnipiac University Poll finds
Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2004
When asked whether they favor or oppose the death penalty, Connecticut voters favor it 59 – 31 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. When offered the alternative, however, of life in prison with no chance of parole, voters prefer the life option over the death penalty 49 – 37 percent.
In the favor/oppose question, men favor the death penalty 65 – 27 percent, while women favor it 54 – 35 percent. Republicans are 71 – 23 percent in favor of the death penalty, with Democrats in favor 48 – 43 percent and independent voters in favor 62 – 27 percent, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds.
Catholics favor the death penalty 66 – 26 percent, with Protestants in favor 58 – 31 percent.
Looking at the specific case of Michael Ross, Connecticut voters favor the death penalty 70 – 23 percent.
Because of your frustration, I will give you two of my favorite quotes as a gift:
"Never argue with an idiot, observers might not be able to tell the two of you apart" - William F. Buckley
Attribution is honorable.
"Never try to teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time and it annoys the pig" - Contrarian
Plagiarism is naughty. This one has been around for many years.
