Sunday, August 01, 2004
day 94/reason 7: religious hypocrisy
Maybe because it's Sunday, I'm kind of having a religion-themed day.
Hypocrisy in any form bothers me. I was pondering W's hypocrisy the other day when I heard him referred to as the Texecutioner. I'm wondering how he squares his support of killing criminals with his support of the pro-lifers? Is abortion murder, but capital punishment not?
Granted, an unborn baby has not committed a crime whereas a death-row criminal ostensibly has (unless the court didn't do its job, which definitely happens from time to time). But does that make the killing any better? Perhaps Bush is just being "compassionate" by killing the criminals instead of having them sit in jail for the rest of their days. But is he being compassionate by trying to deny women the right to choose what to do with their bodies? Hmmmm....
¶ 5:41 PM
Maybe because it's Sunday, I'm kind of having a religion-themed day.
Hypocrisy in any form bothers me. I was pondering W's hypocrisy the other day when I heard him referred to as the Texecutioner. I'm wondering how he squares his support of killing criminals with his support of the pro-lifers? Is abortion murder, but capital punishment not?
Granted, an unborn baby has not committed a crime whereas a death-row criminal ostensibly has (unless the court didn't do its job, which definitely happens from time to time). But does that make the killing any better? Perhaps Bush is just being "compassionate" by killing the criminals instead of having them sit in jail for the rest of their days. But is he being compassionate by trying to deny women the right to choose what to do with their bodies? Hmmmm....
¶ 5:41 PM
