1. “not judge”
Just to clarify, I didn’t mean we shouldn’t judge. I was referring to the attitude of many people who think you can’t take a moral position condemning something because that would be “judging” somebody, which is considered hypocritical and very un-PC. There is a lot of social pressure to “not judge”. So I was just saying that I’m impressed that so many people have gotten past that and taken a stand for life.
2. Your formulation of respecting life from conception through natural death, except in very limited adult criminal cases sounds like what I thought Pope John Paul II taught. A few people at my Catholic parish seem to know about his take on the death penalty. I guess I should be glad for those few. (And glad for you!)
Yeah, well, the heck with that. ;0)
Your formulation of respecting life from conception through natural death
Although I'm not Catholic I think those very words are from a Catholic source and I believe them with all my heart.