tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post7850823489459798125..comments2024-03-18T20:38:40.751+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Capital punishmentFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-89901546211198391612010-12-15T12:14:08.591+00:002010-12-15T12:14:08.591+00:00Where is the support from all these D-list celebri...Where is the support from all these D-list celebrities for the poor Christian Woman, Asia Bibi, who is in danger of being hanged in Pakisatn for simply being a Christian?!Aduliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00534730218402742905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-56184161197374029862010-12-14T23:40:57.725+00:002010-12-14T23:40:57.725+00:00Indeed. The impulse to help, if that's what it...Indeed. The impulse to help, if that's what it is, is laudable, but the idea seems unlikely to accomplish anything.<br /><br />I wonder to what degree Western civilization is unwittingly propping up the theocracies -- the more sink into the mire of relativism and there-is-no-truth, the more we allow abortion and move on to euthanasia and ... from there, what next? ... don't we just make Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-12379456262470634482010-12-14T19:54:48.979+00:002010-12-14T19:54:48.979+00:00My view on capital punishment, like my view on nuc...My view on capital punishment, like my view on nuclear weapons, is that of Enoch Powell. Its <em>locus classicus</em> specifically concerns a woman taken in adultery.<br /><br />But the luvvies are really objecting to a state, as such, which expresses in statute its disapproval of adultery, as our own rightly used to do both of adultery and of desertion when, although not in themselves illegal, David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-72415369095632952592010-12-14T19:39:14.823+00:002010-12-14T19:39:14.823+00:00You are, of course, absolutely right, both as to t...You are, of course, absolutely right, both as to the idiotic failure to choose 'horses for courses', and as to the probable motives of the signatories.<br /><br />I, too, find it unpleasant, though sometimes a demand of conscience, to support causes promoted by certain prominent people.<br /><br />I can only imagine the feelings of the average 'hardline' Iranian Muslim.Left-footerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18154175028539882422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-59916568790972765232010-12-14T18:55:34.375+00:002010-12-14T18:55:34.375+00:00As a born-Jew and, in my salad days, a fairly noto...As a born-Jew and, in my salad days, a fairly notorious sinner, I agree. It would do this poor woman no good to have my support if I were rich and/or famous.margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07727534908302610374noreply@blogger.com