Kathy E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Well I'm Catholic, though non practicing. I have always believed in the
DP myself. Yet I tend to think these pleas from the pope do get ignored
mainly due to the fact they are so common for him to do them. One takes
notice of something that rarely happens, but when something is normal we
tend to ignore it.
One thing that has always bothered me, and I still don't have the answer
for this is, the people who are pleading to stop the execution of
someone, why do they wait so long? Why wait until the last minute to
suddenly say, "oh my! We can't have him executed?" Isn't that a bit
cruel on their part also?
Case in point was the recent execution here in Virginia, why in the hell
did they wait this long to do anything? Maybe due to the fact they
really didn't care. It was just plain old politics at play IMHO.
I saw the supposed outrage and cries of injustice, (funny no one tried
to say he was innocent, just his delegates weren't told he was arrested,
would them knowing make him suddenly innocent and his victim alive?) but
all I could think of is, You folks knew three years after this man was
convicted that he was in jail with the DP, why didn't you do anything
then? Why wait until now, when the situation is completely out of your
control? Perhaps due to the fact they knew he did kill his victim and
they didn't really care at all but were just trying to make it look like
they did attempt to stop the execution.
The type of chest pounding and alleged outrage in cases like that
disgusts me, it's not people actually trying to right a wrong, it's
people just playing politics to me, if they had really cared they would
have done something years ago and not waited until the last days to try
to stop the execution.
DocCec wrote:
> Not all Catholics are against the death penalty. And few other Catholic
> leaders give "advice" to other countries about what to do with their own
> citizens. I am, as you know, against the death penalty -- don't think I'm a
> good enough Catholic for that to be the reason, though. IMO, John Paul means
> well but is poking his nose in where it doesn't belong in this instance.
> Doc
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