Quote:
Originally Posted by ISiddiqui
I'm going to actually slightly defend this person. I think he really looked through and into the position and this wasn't a knee jerk response. From the reports on this when he said it, he said it "tearfully". As in, this wasn't an easy response for him - but he cares so much for life that even in cases of rape, he would want that unborn life cared for.
It seemed like a case of while he knows it would cause pain & isn't at all an ideal situation, protecting the unborn life is more important.
I actually applaud him for being so unvarnishedly honest about it, especially since it appeared he struggled with the decision.
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Richard Mourdock on the death penalty
Q: What is your view on the Death Penalty?I support the death penalty at the federal level for treason, murder, and other serious crimes.
|
Doesn't seem to value human life too much he's OK with the death penalty for treason, murder, and other serious crimes. I'm assuming having an abortion when your life is not in danger would be a serious crime. What other crimes is he OK with the death penalty. I doubt he was crying talking about the death penalty.
I may not agree with one's position on the death penalty, but I'll respect your position if you have some logic. His logic is that there are occasions where it is God's will that a woman who is raped becomes pregnant. However, that is the extent of God's will. God had nothing to do with preventing the rape, allowed it to happen, the interjected his will to make the woman pregnant. If that's your God, that sounds awful. If God is responsible for the pregnancy, he should be responsible for the rape.
If your position is that both the rape and the pregnancy are God's will and and that we simply don't understand God's reasons, I'll accept that. You're not using selecting justice to choose what is God's will and what is human will.
Then he compounded his lunancy by coming out and saying he was sorry if you misunderstood him. No one misunderstood him -- he said pregnancies from rape was God's will, and he stands by that. He's not sorry for what he believes, he's sorry you don't agree with him. Why say you're sorry if you don't mean it?
Oh, I forgot ... you just commented a horrendous gaffe in an election year. That's what he's sorry about.