March 28th, 2011
Because I’m a squish, I’m happy to see Illinois doing away with the death penalty and I’d be even happier if the rest of the states followed suit. To mark the event, the New York Times ran this lovely story about how Gov. Pat Quinn wrestled with the decision to sign the bill. They note with reverence how, at the final hour, he consulted the Bible and then, ultimately, rested his decision on the rock of argument built by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. The Times finds this theological influence on the public square to be quite wonderful. And it is!
You can only imagine, of course, the treatment they’d give to the story if all the particulars were identical except that the bill outlawed abortion.
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Amen.
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Leo Ladenson March 29, 2011 at 12:02 am
Christianists!