Capital punishment abolitionists are morally screwed up
Monday, February 19, 2007 at 04:33PM The State of Maryland is about to consider a Bill that may ban the death sentence - and th ehope is that other states, of the 38 that operate the death penalty, will follow suit. Needless to say the state has a new DEMOCRATIC governor (so there's no actual intellect involved here) who has already said he'll sign the new Bill introduced by A DEFENCE lawyer (for murderers, no surprise there then).
(MSM Alert: Interestingly, the anti-death penalty (indeed any liberal policy) BBC billed this story ran this story as 'US wrestles with exectuion penalty'. I wonder if I got 50 Brits out on the streets to argue the case against the 'murder of fish' whether they would run "Brit wrestles with Angling question".)
Vicky Sheiber, addressing the small crowd of snowbound 'US wrestlers' holding the meeting in a Maryland phone booth, is in fact the mother of a murder victim. This, runs the thinking, gives her some sort of moral authority on the question of capital punishment apparently. She has not actually got a reasoned or moral argument however, other than this. When prosectors "pressed her" to demand the death penalty she refused. Now she says, "It was against everything I was brought up to believe. Taking another person's life is wrong. Don't put a question mark where God puts a period," she told the crowd to spontaneous cheering.
It might have been against what her particular family were brought up to believe, but then, her family could not have got their understanding of morality or teaching on capital punishment from Christianity or the Bible. Christianity and the Bible plainly teach that breaking the Sixth Commandment IS an offence punishable by death (as Jesus himself confirmed before Pilate at his own trial! read this). I have no objection to bleeding-heart liberals taking their demands to the streets, but I do object to them attempting to invoke God in support of their anti-God case.
Reader Comments (5)
this is a real example of taking God's name in vain - using his name to authorise what he has not in fact authorised
We are required to take counsel from the whole of scripture. With this in mind there is clearly a distinction between what God appoints for the authorities to carry out justice and what individuals are called to do when sinned against. These are two very different things.
It is quite acceptable for you to take a different view from the Biblical one. But don't claim you have some other special knowledge from God that everyone else missed. He has revealed Himself in His word and it has clearly spoken. How are we putting words into His mouth?
I am be wrong (and Terry will corerect me if I am) but I read Terry's comment as concurring with me that it was wrong of the abolitionists to invoke God here.
If I am wrong do forgive me. But Terry, like yourself, is usually strong on God's Word. (This of course is always the trouble with emails and comments online generally - it is so easy to be misunderstood!)
Funnily enough, it's effectively invoked to justify God being opposed to the death penalty, which of course he isn't - e.g. "I oppose c/p because I'm a Christian"