And as governor has put people to death, isn't that playing God? Where in the new testament does it say that if a government decides that it is OK that it is OK for you to go ahead and kill someone if you are a minister? What about suicide and assisted suicide then? Yet people are so worried about abortion being murder, I just don't get it, can someone explain? It seemes like a big control issue to me.
2007-12-04 02:32:41 · 18 answers · asked by Ktcyan 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I have always been confused by this debate.
Pro Choicers are anti capital punishment and Pro Lifers are Pro Capital punishment. The two seem to be on opposite spectrums.
It seems like your either for killing someone or against killing someone yet were able to differentiate between killing a fetus vs killing a murderer.. very odd.
2007-12-04 02:41:40 · answer #1 · answered by cowboysfan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just 2 of the candidates running for President, Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich, oppose the death penalty. The rest are still treating this issue as a sound bite machine. They have not realized that you don't have to sympathize with criminals or want them to avoid a terrible punishment to ask if the death penalty prevents or even reduces crime and to think about the risks of executing innocent people.
More and more Americans are asking about these things and more and more Americans now believe that life without parole (available in 48 states) is a better alternative than the death penalty.
2007-12-04 04:07:03 · answer #2 · answered by Susan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is the problem so many are having with a minister running for President? Are people of faith not to have the same rights as people who choose no religion? That doesn't sound very Constitutional now, does it? Are the rights of Americans reserved only for the secular?
I didn't think I lived in a Communist nation.
By the way, if pedophiles, rapists, and cold blooded murderers make the choice to take away the life of someone else...(and yes, molesting a child DOES take away their life), then you forfit your right to continue to share the planet with the rest of us....it's all about choice!!!!!
2007-12-04 02:45:01 · answer #3 · answered by Candii JoJo is a groovy chick. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am personally against the death penalty, for I think most police are liars without conscience,(O.J. Simpson case) the same with a lot of prosecuting attorneys, the past has proven that to be true. I am also against abortion, but if a mother wants to kill her unborn innocent baby, then that should be her choice, but society should not have to pay for it. Assisted suicide is a very shady subject, leaves the door open very unscrupulous people. Hukarbee, being a minister so what ?
Hey Radar, wow!! you are funny.
2007-12-04 02:45:40 · answer #4 · answered by niddlie diddle 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm more concerned that an apparently intelligent, well educated man, with life experience and world travel doesn't believe in evolution and holds to the radical tenents of the Baptist church.
His opinion on the death penalty is irrelevant. It's legal and there is nothing he can do to change it-only Congress can do that - or each state.
Doesn't bother me personally because I would never vote for him - or any other Republican..we've had enough of them.
2007-12-04 04:17:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just don't like when people try to play God, as if they are allowed to decide whether one has a right to live or die. That goes for all aspects of the death penalty, abortion, suicide etc.
2007-12-04 02:38:57 · answer #6 · answered by ehrlich 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vote Ron Paul 2008 No ministers for president!
2007-12-04 02:37:29 · answer #7 · answered by Kenneth E 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
and you are the authority in who's and who isn't Christian how? No, i do no longer consider him, yet that does no longer propose i visit bash his ideals. I additionally don't have self assurance comparable to he does, yet he has a ideal to have self assurance as he will, and a ideal to do as he sees greater healthful. perhaps he replaced into attempting to be an extremely solid Christian, and supply somebody a 2d threat. To me, that's being a Christian. this sort of situation is what i truthfully do in contrast to approximately elections. attempting to deliver others down is kinda low, and extremely un- Christ like.
2016-10-19 03:08:44 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see no problem here. The Bible does not forbid Capital Punishment so where is the issue? Additionally in the 10 Commandments it says thou shall not MURDER (never has it said thou shall not kill).
2007-12-04 02:38:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
He never sentenced anyone to the death sentence, the courts did. I worry more about his tax mentality more than anything. His "facts" about his greatness as Governor are all half-truths.
2007-12-04 02:37:55 · answer #10 · answered by sensible_man 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋