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Scalia Questions Church's Position
Associated Press | 4 February 2002 | Gina Holland

Posted on 02/04/2002 8:48:52 PM PST by Lancey Howard

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To: St.Chuck
Scalia unwittingly becomes an agent for the culture of death with those remarks. So much for his "serious thought."

I'm assuming that you are joking here. If not do you also think that God is an "agent for the culture of death." There are a LOT of references to death as the proper punishment in the Bible.

41 posted on 02/05/2002 9:47:40 AM PST by 69ConvertibleFirebird
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To: Lancey Howard
By Scalia's logic, it would seem that any Catholic judge who disagreed with abortion must resign also.
42 posted on 02/05/2002 9:52:06 AM PST by be131
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To: let freedom sing
If Jesus's execution by the Romans justifies the death penalty, surely we ought to introduce crowns of thorns and side-piercing as optional punishments in U.S. jails? Why not?
43 posted on 02/05/2002 9:53:43 AM PST by be131
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To: be131
If Jesus's execution by the Romans justifies the death penalty, surely we ought to introduce crowns of thorns and side-piercing as optional punishments in U.S. jails? Why not?

Crowns of thorns and side-piercing are simple adornments. If prisoners want to wear them to their executions-- I see no reason why they shouldn't be accommodated. Afterall, they were right with God, and his Son.

44 posted on 02/05/2002 11:18:43 AM PST by let freedom sing
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To: be131
By Scalia's logic, it would seem that any Catholic judge who disagreed with abortion must resign also.

I dunno.... can judges sentence babies in the womb to be put to death by abortion?

Whatever, if a Catholic justice or judge thinks abortion is cool, or even acceptable, then he should certainly resign if he is in any position to promote, endorse, or "okay" abortion. On the other hand, a traffic court judge who is Catholic and thinks abortion is a good idea presumably wouldn't have a conflict

45 posted on 02/05/2002 1:33:28 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: patent
Criticizing in public without giving the church an opportunity to respond is not legitimate disagreement that I can see. The Church can respond anywhere it likes. What is stopping it? It seems as though you think the Church is powerless to respond to this great man. I hardly think so. patent

Does one call oneself a devout spouse and then critcize one's spouse in public? Should Cardinal Dulles, instead of merely walking out of the room in disgust, have lept up ad grabbed the microphone contiuing the tacky argument further?

I recognize the justice's right to state his side of an argument with a body he claims to have allegiance to in public, and without inviting counter argument in the very same forum.

46 posted on 02/05/2002 1:48:40 PM PST by RLJVet
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To: Lancey Howard
Scalia's position seems to be that, if judges hold beliefs about the death penalty which conflict with settled U.S. law, then they should resign. I wonder why Scalia does not think that the same logic should apply to beliefs about abortion.
47 posted on 02/05/2002 3:43:44 PM PST by be131
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To: be131
Scalia's position seems to be that, if judges hold beliefs about the death penalty which conflict with settled U.S. law, then they should resign. I wonder why Scalia does not think that the same logic should apply to beliefs about abortion.

I didn't see that part. Did Scalia say that the same logic should not apply to beliefs about abortion?

48 posted on 02/05/2002 4:42:12 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: 69ConvertibleFirebird
I assume you are joking here

Not joking...not interested in your scriptural references.

49 posted on 02/05/2002 8:39:08 PM PST by St.Chuck
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To: Lancey Howard
Scalia's position seems to be that, if judges hold beliefs about the death penalty which conflict with settled U.S. law, then they should resign. I wonder why Scalia does not think that the same logic should apply to beliefs about abortion.

I didn't see that part. Did Scalia say that the same logic should not apply to beliefs about abortion?

Well, Scalia didn't say it explicitly. But if (as I am 99.9% sure) Scalia is, and always has been, opposed to abortion, then why didn't he resign when he was an Appeals Court judge?

50 posted on 02/06/2002 5:06:48 AM PST by be131
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To: Lancey Howard
Scalia went off on the present day Church, accusing the clergy for watering down Catholicism. He dismissed the latest Ecclesiastical Vitae, and said that the present church is the "illegetimate product of Hagel and Freud." Cardinal Dulles got up in protest and left the room. You just had to be there to witness it.

I never knew Scalia had something against Chuck Hagel.

51 posted on 02/06/2002 5:14:31 AM PST by be131
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To: St.Chuck
not interested in your scriptural references.

Well, ignorance is certainly a strong argument, huh? To knock someone for his/her beliefs in the word of God then not care what that word says is very interesting. I think the "Reverend" Jesse uses the same philosophy...

53 posted on 02/06/2002 6:00:40 AM PST by 69ConvertibleFirebird
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To: Lancey Howard
I hope everybody realizes that opposition to the death penalty is not a Catholic doctrine. It is merely the Popes opinion. One has an option to follow it or not. As a Catholic you are NOT required to follow it.

Anyway, here is a transcript of Scalias comments on the death penalty

54 posted on 02/08/2002 5:43:25 PM PST by electron1
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To: LincolnDefender
So I guess you don't like Scalia.
And based on your post, you probably don't have respect for anybody on the Supreme Court. Certainly not the scumbag liberals for whom the US Constitution is merely a meaningless jumble of words - - a "guide" to be "interpreted" according to the chic fashions and political agendum of the day.

So, I am curious - - is there any Justice you do like?
Also, do you like Judge Bork?

Regards,
LH

55 posted on 02/08/2002 6:23:14 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: LincolnDefender
"Scalia went to the Bin Laden school of law. He has not contributed in any positive way to any aspect of American life."

One other thing - - you didn't author the above line, right? I suspect pulled that line from some goofy foreign publication because, again based on your thoughtful previous post, I am sure you did not author that line of drivel.

"He has not contributed in any positive way to any aspect of American life."

LOL !!!!
Talk about "meaningless", hahaha.

56 posted on 02/08/2002 6:33:05 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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