Cokie Roberts is a “seamless webbed Catholic”? Can someone translate what these people on tv are blabbering about?
“Because Cokie is right.”
Cokie is not right.
Cokie is an idiot. I mean, if she had two brain cells to rub together she would have changed her name.
Structually this argument is a common piece of sophistry often deployed by Evil in the attempt to secure half a victory, should the whole victory be postponed.
What does Evil want? Well, the deaths of the murderers *and* the innocent. But these pro-life people want to deny evil the deaths of the innocent. What to do?
Well, a small victory could be preserved should the pro-life side win, by flim-flamming them into letting the murderers live too.
However, letting the innocent live in no way mandates letting the guilty live. We can countenance both a ban on abortion and the judicial application of the death penalty with no contradiction whatsoever.
Abortion and homosexuality, two plagues on society.
Good `friend` and frequent fill in host of single mother Laura Ingraham is Tammy Bruce, a pro abortion lesbian.
Nobody better than Laura Ingraham on bringing antilife agenda to light in the secular media.
btw, in NY Gov. Cuomo wants abortion EXPANSION.
Me likey Laura. She’s articulate and not afraid to bring up the life issue. So much better than those fakes, like Peggy Noonan and others, who seem to care more about being popular and getting invited to D.C.’s and NYC’s cocktail parties.
Laura is against the death penalty?
This would be the first time I disagreed with Laura Ingraham. I do not equate abortion with the death penalty.
For Catholics, the argument not to permit the deliberate killing of unborn children is doctrinal, having to do with the intrinsic evil of the act. Intentional abortion can never be tolerated. To permit it in law is to undermine the basis for any legitimate legal system or government.
Conversely, the argument not to put to death certain offenders is prudential. The Church explicitly teaches that the state has an inherent right to wield the sword against the offender. In recent decades, the prudential judgment of popes (and many bishops) has been that the death penalty is no longer needed in most of the world. As a Catholic, I disagree with that view.
However, another prudential concern about the death penalty is whether a particular state is trustworthy to employ this sanction. I think it’s not altogether too difficult to make out a case that the federal and state governments of the United States are not sufficiently trustworthy in this regard.