Abortion,OTOH,was a piece of cake!
Wants to show how wonderful he is. Take a stand against it and then call yourself a leader.
For kaine, killing babies is easy. Killing killers, no so much.
So, saving the life of a guilty criminal is more important than saving the life of an innocent child?
Kaine is morally conflicted about executing murderers but he’s made peace with abortion.
Not something the Church condones.
“...Putting to death a hardened criminal was something I had to grabble with. Murdering a baby, though, that wasn’t difficult at all...”
I smell another democrat hypocrite.
Isn’t abortion a death penalty?
The Bible offers much justification for the death penalty and absolutely no justification of abortion.....He obviously is not utilizing it in his guidance.
He should be exca something or other.
But, he seems to love muslims who think they should kill all infidels. I think he just sides with evil instinctively like most leftists.
This guy is such a sleaze.
But then, all Democrats are.
He is such an unbelievable dork...
Actually, it makes sense. Knowing his partner in crime was going to be Hillary, he stands a good chance of engaging in high treason, punishable by death. She isn’t going to take the fall so he would be smart to outlaw capital punishment now, in case he is yoked with the blame.
A common comment from cultural Christian Progressives. I had a Methodist pastor who would say that you can’t be against abortion if you are in favor of the death penalty.
I told that’s like saying that a person who would shoot a rabid dog is a hypocrite for not drowning puppies.
Evading it or what?
Assuming that the guilty party's identity and responsibility have been fully determined, the traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor.
If, however, non-lethal means are sufficient to defend and protect people's safety from the aggressor, authority will limit itself to such means, as these are more in keeping with the concrete conditions of the common good and more in conformity to the dignity of the human person.
Today, in fact, as a consequence of the possibilities which the state has for effectively preventing crime, by rendering one who has committed an offense incapable of doing harm - without definitely taking away from him the possibility of redeeming himself - the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity "are very rare, if not practically nonexistent."
Note that it never condemns the death penalty in an absolute way; it simply states that, generally, there are better options available, which should be used if possible.
On the other hand, this is what it says about abortion:
Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.
Mr. Kaine is not communicating Church teaching accurately.
Did someone advise him to say this??? Unbelievable.
The hardest struggle in his faith life was to keep up the appearance of having faith.
Christian Bishops of all denominations should excommunicate all those who profess to be Christian but support, defend and enable abortion, homosexuality or other vile sins. The majority of Church leaders (Bishops) need to clean house but like our government they're unwilling to do it.