[metmom]

Telling a psychopath who murdered, maimed and committed all sorts of other unspeakable acts, that they are going to heaven because they uttered words of confession just before the trap door on the gallows was opened.

Gee, would that be like the thief on the cross?

Or maybe Ted Kennedy or Chavez who get Catholics funerals because at the last minute they *repented* and asked for the sacraments after a lifetime of murder and destroying this country with their pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage; socialistic politics?

[Vigilanteman]

Gee, would that be like the thief on the cross?

Or maybe Ted Kennedy or Chavez who get Catholics funerals . . . ?

Pretty clever analogy. Except that in the former case it was Jesus Christ himself offering salvation, not some self-appointed spokesman.

And in the later case, it is a funeral, not a pronouncement of salvation or lack thereof. Not so different from that great old Protestant tradition of singing hymns to the condemned on the gallows before the trap door was sprung.

A tradition which, by the way, I find both admirable and commendable. The condemned get their justice but the hymn singers put them in a proper frame of mind to ask for the mercy of the final judge, who is God, not some self-appointed expert.

[Hacksaw]

Or maybe Ted Kennedy or Chavez who get Catholics funerals because at the last minute they *repented* and asked for the sacraments after a lifetime of murder and destroying this country with their pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage; socialistic politics?

It's time to get over your ex husband.