POLITICS
If You Support the Death Penalty, Can You Call Yourself Pro-Life?
Policy choices matter
I’m not the type of person who sees the world in black and white. The world to me is full of greys. For every sin, there are degrees of sin and variables that contribute to the motivation for committing an act so atrocious that death as a form of punishment would even be considered.
Corporal punishment, as in physical punishment that includes spanking, flogging, and even death, is nothing new. When my family and I visited the British Virgin Islands on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Caribbean, we were told about the very old-school laws there. They believed in this form of punishment, going so far as to cut off a hand for stealing. Residents were so assured of this that it supposedly limited crime rates there.
Although my cursory research does not support the existence of an “eye for an eye” legal system in the BVI, it does in many nations in the Middle East, just as it was in biblical times.
One year, my best friend and I participated in Youth Sunday, and one of our jobs was teaching an adult Sunday School class…