Amy Coney Barrett's first vote as a Supreme Court Justice is to put a man to death.

[Nevilledog]

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Amy Coney Barrett’s first vote as a Supreme Court Justice is to put a man to death.

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Just in: The Supreme Court has vacated a lower court's 11th-hour order that had blocked tonight's scheduled execution of Orlando Hall. Breyer, Kagan & Sotomayor dissent.
https://supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/111920zr_4hd5.pdf…

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[C_U_L8R]

1. How very Christian (tm)

[lame54]

18. All Lives Matter

[cyclonefence]

2. With all that hyper-religiosity?

With apologies to Emerson, the louder they talked of their Christianity, the further Jesus turned from their church.

[Sherman A1]

3. Very Pro Life of her

[greenjar_01]

4. Wow, what great Catholic practice

Note: the death penalty is considered as bad as abortion in contemporary Catholic doctrine. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying, or is essentially a Protestant.

[The Genealogist]

12. Are there Catholic clergy who publicly state they will deny communion to SC justices

who uphold the death penalty, like they do for Biden supporting women's right to control their own bodies?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/politics/joe-biden-denied-communion-south-carolina-catholic-church/index.html

Just wondering if it is only Democrats who get this treatment. Perhaps there are.

[greenjar_01]

13. Of course not, because they're essentially Protestants

[The Genealogist]

14. Not sure what you mean

Alito, Coney-Barret, Kavanaugh, Roberts, and Thomas are Catholics.

[greenjar_01]

16. If they protest the current doctrine

They are protest-ants.

They are not acting in accord with Catholic doctrine, period.

[Bettie]

5. Well, given what I know of the "pro-life" movement

that's exactly what any one of them would do.

It's more of a "kill them when they're bigger" movement.

[Laelth]

6. How fitting! n/t

-Laelth

[Caliman73]

7. So, some idiot Bishop is having a meeting to ex-communicate Biden because he supports Choice.

Not abortion but choice, with basically means keeping religion out of a legal issue. They are deciding whether Biden, a practicing Catholic, should be able to receive Communion, arguably the most important Sacrament to a Catholic.

Have they said anything about Coney-Barrett basically voting to kill a person? Because along with abortion, Catholics should be against the Death Penalty.

[List left]

8. Remind me again who ran the inquisition? nt

[struggle4progress]

21. The Church's anti-death penalty position

https://www.usccb.org/resources/churchs-anti-death-penalty-position

[napi21]

9. Here's the accusation against Orlando Hall.

16 year old Lisa Rene was kidnapped, sexually assaulted for 2 days, bludgeoned, gagged & dragged into a grave, where she was doused in gas & buried alive. She died of asphyxiation in the grave.

I would have voted the same as she did. Although I'm old now, I can still imagine what this girl went through. He deserves the sentence he got!

[bigtree]

15. the death penalty makes us murderers

...it's not self-defense, nor is it about public safety or deterrence.

What you're angling toward is revenge, which may be justifiable in many minds, but is cold-blooded murder, nonetheless.

[napi21]

23. I guess you're right. I've neber thought of myself as a murderer but I believe as long as the US

has the death penlty and it is ordered by a jury, then we should carry it out. For all that oppose the DPm they need to get the Congress to make it unlawful.

[Submariner]

10. Since Orlando took a 16 year old from her home,

raped her, and then buried her ALIVE, his killing was way overdue. A family member should have been allowed to bury him alive many years ago.

Coney B is a curse for decades to come.

[HAB911]

11. She is SUPER pro-life so I'm sure of how she will vote

EDIT: OOPS

[MyOwnPeace]

17. No big deal - there's still nine other commandments.....

[liberalmuse]

19. Pro-life my ass.

LOL, I started typing my reply title and apparently I've typed that particular sentence before as it popped up. And you know what is absolutely sickening? I guessed correctly that this man is person of color. But of course. Jesus Christ!

[smirkymonkey]

20. Evil person!

[TreasonousBastard]

22. Cardinal Ratzinger (before he became pope)wrote that the death penalty was a "negotiable"...

moral/ethical position. Abortion was non-negotiable.

This distinction means little to non-Catholics, but means that Catholic justices have no obligation to be against capital punishment. And before deriding the concept of "negotiable" moral positions, think about the almost infinite such things we deal with in our daily lives.