[Vision2020] Sotomayor: US Supreme Court's Sixth Catholic?

[Paul Rumelhart]

It doesn't make one bit of difference to me.  I was originally just 
replying to Gary's post.  I just wanted to clarify the point I was making.

I have noticed the abortion/death penalty thing.  The concept that seems 
to connect them is one of "judgement", in my opinion.  Fetuses are the 
epitome of innocence, people on death row are the epitome of sinners.  
It kind of makes sense in that respect.

That's not the way I wish to look at it, but at least I can understand it.

Paul

bear at moscow.com wrote:
> Ted and Paul,
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> I guess i have to ask the question, "Does it make a difference one way or
> the other"?
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> Taking myself as an example, I was raised and am a practicing Catholic. I
> do not believe in abortions at all, however, I do believe in choice. Pro
> choice does NOT equal pro-abortion.
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> And just as an aside, have you ever noticed how the "anti-abortion" folks
> are usually pro death penalty?  I think those of us that oppose the death
> penalty (which I do), should just call it post-birth abortions and we
> could get most of the anti-abortion folks on board!
>
> Wayne
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>> Ted Moffett wrote:
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>>> On 6/5/09, *Paul Rumelhart* <godshatter at yahoo.com
>>> <mailto:godshatter at yahoo.com>> wrote:
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>>>     I used to speculate wildly about whether or not our former
>>>     President was
>>>     really a believer or if he was blatantly manipulating the religious
>>>     right through their own predilictions (or both).  What it comes
>>>     down to
>>>     is this: we can't look into their hearts.  Sotomayor may be the most
>>>     devout Catholic evar, but doesn't outwardly show it on a day-to-day
>>>     basis.  For all I know, she goes to church three times a week just
>>> to
>>>     get away from her family.  We just can't know.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Why do you state "we just can't know" about Sotomayor's regularity of
>>> church attendance?
>>>       
>> Rereading that, I see I wasn't very clear.  I'm not saying "we just
>> can't know" about her regularity of church attendance.  I'm saying "we
>> just can't know" what's in her heart, what she actually believes deep
>> down inside.  The most regular church attender might be a closet
>> Luciferan Satanist, people who never go to church may be extremely
>> spiritual Christians.  We can speculate wildly about what they actually
>> believe.  We can even read what they claim to believe, but we'll never
>> know exactly what they actually believe, because we can't get inside
>> their heads or their hearts.
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>> At the time I wrote it, I didn't know how often she attended church, so
>> I covered both sides of the spectrum.  My point still stands - we can't
>> look into her heart so we can't know for certain if she's a "true
>> believer" or not.
>>
>> Paul
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