You're a moron.
How can forgiveness of adultery be compared to killing someone with a pickaxe?
It can't. One is undeniably more heinous than the other. Adultery tears apart families, yes, but not in the way of a double murder with a pickaxe.
However, a long time ago, I started asking myself how I could reconcile my opposition to abortion with my acceptance of capital punishment. Yes, unborn children are as innocent as anyone could ever be. Yes, death row inmates are proven in court to be guilty of an abhorrent crime. To many, it seems like a clear distinction, and that's fine. I don't think anyone who feels that way is evil or hellbound or anything like that.
But I personally couldn't reconcile that inconsistency in my own heart. When I say that I'm pro-life, I want to say that I'm for all life. Life starts at conception, but it doesn't stop at birth. Slowly, I came to understand that in good conscience I couldn't oppose one without the other. This is what works for me, and others are free to believe as they will on this issue.
I pray that I won't have to face the ultimte challenge to this belief. If someone I cared about were murdered, this opinion would be shaken to the very core of my soul. I can talk all day about what I "would think" if that were to happen, but there's no way to understand how I'd actually believe until it happened. I like to think that I'd remain steadfast in my belief, though. I'm called to forgive, to turn the other cheek and above all to love. I don't want to hold my religious and political beliefs only when they're convenient. I can only say that I truly believe in something when I still hold on to it when it's difficult or inconvenient. To do otherwise would make me a hypocritical John-Kerry-like flip-flopper.
(There, did that last sentence help win me some credibility around here? (grin))