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Related: About this forumCatholic group opposes Ash Wednesday execution
Posted: Feb 04, 2013 7:56 PM EST
By Willard Woods
SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - The scheduled execution of a man on Ash Wednesday doesn't sit well with one Louisiana religious group that has asked the governor to intervene.
Convicted killer Christopher Sepulvado, of Shreveport, is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, Feb. 13. But that's also Ash Wednesday for Christians.
Citing Catholic social teaching and other tenets, the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops (LCCB), issued a statement on Monday opposing the scheduled execution on Ash Wednesday.
"We in no way condone the actions of Christopher Sepulvado. ... At the same time, we acknowledge the Christian power of reconciliation and redemption which Christopher has embraced," the LCCB stated in its release.
http://www.ksla.com/story/20962353/catholic-group-opposes-ash-wednesday-execution
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,577 posts)opposition to the Death Penalty............
cbayer
(146,218 posts)in Louisiana. Not only does it mark the beginning of lent, but is marks the end of the carnival session. I've lived a lot of places, but nowhere else have I seen it taken as seriously.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)As should most rapists, but especially the catholic priests.
rug
(82,333 posts)While they are opposing the death penalty outside the prison, you can picket them and hold signs up condemning priests. If you're really into it, you can call them all enablers of pedophilia. Maybe you can get somebody from here to join you. I'll throw in a few bucks to get you there.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)While they are hiding from responsibility and the law, you can picket them and hold signs up condemning priests and their enablers and protectors. If you're really into it, you can recognize the laity's role in the travesty. Maybe you can get somebody from here to join you. I'll throw in a few bucks to get you there.
rug
(82,333 posts)Don't forget the cartoon.
It's clear you do not support what these people are doing to stop capital punishment.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Ill post what I want when I want.
It's clear that you support your church in whatever endeavors it chooses.
rug
(82,333 posts)You go on post whatever you want wherever you want, no matter how inane, disruptive, off-topic and stupid it is. When you get your ass handed to you, make sure you whine about it where somebody will care.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)I'll wait here to have my ass handed to me. You wait here and continue to be one.
rug
(82,333 posts)Response to rug (Reply #15)
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cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Keep grasping.
rug
(82,333 posts)Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)okasha
(11,573 posts)nt
ButterflyBlood
(12,644 posts)it'd be rather hypocritical to delay this execution just because it happens to fall on Ash Wednesday. How is executing him after Lent any better? The right thing to do would be for Jindal to commute the sentence altogether.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)The issue isn't the death penalty, but making a religious accommodation.
okasha
(11,573 posts)Why is refusal to «make a religious accommodaeion» more important than whether the man lives or dies?
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)No, I didn't.
When I first read the post I got the impression that the sole objection of the Catholic bishops was the date of execution, which is at the onset of an important Catholic holy day/days.
okasha
(11,573 posts)But I see by your post below that you didn't have the full context at the time.
rug
(82,333 posts)I think he's simply a bizarro version of a cafeteria Catholic.
okasha
(11,573 posts)of the noun of your choice.
I applaud the bishops' consistent opposition to the death penalty.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)The article makes it sound like the date of execution is the immediate issue. Given that the execution is going to take place, should there be a religious consideration for the date?
rug
(82,333 posts)The date only underscores its morbidity. It's a clumsy headline. It's about opposition to the death penalty.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)addresses the Catholic bishops opposition to the death penalty.
Yeah, that was a poorly written headline. I took it that the issue was the date of execution.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)According to the Google translation (JAC: I have touched this up a bit):
The predators of Animal Kingdom in Nuenen will get nothing to eat next Wednesday. For that day is Ash Wednesday, and, as the zoo reports, the lions, tigers and wolves will be fasting.
The seals will have better luck than the carnivores. They will be served herring, a Catholic tradition on the day after Carnival. But the lions and other carnivores will get nothing.
According to Animal Kingdom, it is definitely not harmful to inflict a day of fasting on predators, for in the wild these animals do not eat every day. According to the zoo, such variation in feeding time helps the animals remain alert.
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/dutch-zoo-animals-must-abjure-meat-on-ash-wednesday/
No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)their (forced) fast on Ash Wednesday has no merit.
It's like forcing a baby or toddler to fast. - they're incapable of forming intent.
Intent is what makes an action worthy or not so much.
rug
(82,333 posts)Not that it has anything to do with the death penalty.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)pinto
(106,886 posts)At all times. I think there would be broad support from most lay Catholics to oppose the death penalty, fwiw.