| Re: Christian conservative leaders unify behind McCain, adopt statement with common g
For the record:
Being pro-death penalty and being pro-life is a consistent non-contradictory
position.
When a society extends the death penalty for murder, the the price of a life is given the highest possible value. If you take a life, you pay the highest price, by cashing in your own.
When a society gives 15-years to life for murder. The value that that society has put on one life is 15-to-life in jail. So a non-death penalty scenario, a human life could be worth as little as 15 years in jail.
Life is precious, whether it's the unborn, or somebody who was murdered; both need and should be defended IMO. Murderers have no regard for the value of their own life or the lives of others, yet they have a possession (their life) that should be treated as capital when they make the choice to "purchase" someone else's.
People who are pro-life and pro-death penalty are those who place the highest possible value on human life.
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