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To: RitaOK
Read Antonin Scalia's statement about Christian judges in cases involving the death penalty. He makes it very clear that if the death penalty is the law and a Christian judge does not want to be a part of the process of executing someone, then the judge has no business being a judge and must therefore resign.

I suspect a lot of people out there -- even good, principled conservatives -- are operating under the erroneous assumption that they should never be forced to choose between God and Caesar. A lot of folks right here on FreeRepublic treat the modern State as either a deity unto itself or as an instrument of God that must be given deity-like allegiance. They'd do well to learn the lesson that this is absolutely NOT the case.

301 posted on 09/04/2015 9:45:15 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Alberta's Child

Scalia’s statement is a good reference.

He also discussed the chaos for the states in matters like this, where conscience is concerned and burned the justices who made the law. Justice Kennedy bastardized the faith, threw out conscientious objection and submits the people entirely to the government by way of the laws of man.

This kind of judicial activism has proven to be the catalyst for wars. It can not to be defended, on moral and religious grounds.


302 posted on 09/04/2015 10:01:18 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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