Politics and religion.

[Pam]

....can you be pro-choice and anti-death penalty or anti-abortion and pro-death penalty?

when the title of the thread is Politics and Religion? Can you have it both ways?

Sarah, there are pro-life people on both sides of that issue (death penalty). Capital punishment was practiced in the Old Testament and also in the New Testament (crucifixtions, stonings, etc.) but Jesus often took a different stance when confronted with people who had "sinned." I don't have a good answer for you.

Correct the thread is titled Politics and Religion. Richard sort of steered it to its current topic with his comments about the questioning of the two candidates by Rick Warren. I think this has been an amazing thread, considering its length and not getting out of hand and needing Karen to lock it as she has had to do with other threads. <<applause>>