Derrick Da Costa wrote to Sachin Phadte: ' because Senator Hillary Clinton is a senator it does not mean that we accept her with open arms when she accepts murder as a policy. We do not believe in murder of innocents. Do you believe in the murder of innocents?
As for what we Catholics stand for is what is in the Bible and nobody including yourself has a right to criticize those teachings.' jc's comment: The above post (perhaps erroneously) gives me the impression that Catholics are "fundamentalist" Christians. IF Derrick had stated that Catholics aspire to live by the teachings of Christ, I'd agree....BUT the Bible (including ALL of the Old Testament)? As a tiny example, isn't Pork forbidden in the Old Testament? It would be interesting to expand more on the "murder" policy a bit more. I assume from the da Costa post that Catholics really oppose the Death Penalty, the burning at the Inquisition stake and civilian deaths from the bombs of war. Perhaps, Derrick will direct us to a post / speech / sermao where the Archbishop or Derrick has written or spoken out against the Innocent deaths resulting from those causes. jc
