[McMack]

Originally Posted by McMack

yet much of the Christian community is opposed to capital punnishment, e.g.

http://www.americancatholic.org/News.../CU/ac0195.asp

"We have a very consistent cornmitment as Church to defending the sanctity of human life. We struggle mightily against abortion; we have a commitment and concern for the poor; we deplore racial and sexual discrimination and the self -destructive use of drugs. Our position against the use of the death penalty falls into that continuum. We believe that an issue such as capital punishment is not just a question of public policy, but is at its very core a moral issue, and therefore a religious issue, and we must speak to it."