Where's all that Catholic "every life is sacred" stuff?

On the front page of The Kansas City Star today is an article about a man here in Missouri that's about to be executed for a murder he committed in 1989.

He doesn't deny it.  He was found guilty and he admits he did it so there's no issue there, about him saying he's innocent.

My point here isn't to plea for him because I'm some soft-headed liberal.  That's not it at all, no.

Roderick Nunley committed this murder and there's no getting around that.  It was ugly and it was brutal.

But Catholics and the Catholic Church have screamed for years that "every life is sacred", as I mention above and as I've railed on for some time, here and elsewhere.

And sure, they make people's lives miserable about their one issue--abortion--but where are all the Catholic protests against state after state taking lives execution-style like this?

The answer is--there aren't any. 

There aren't any Catholic protests and there aren't any Catholics organizing to stop this kind of thing from happening. 

I don't think they feel they can get any sympathy from their right-wing followers to go against this.  It's either that or they just don't care.  They have their one issue to organize and fight against and to draw them all together so when it comes to fighting for a convicted man's life--"every life sacred" or no--they let these  people be killed.

Maybe they don't want to sap any energy or emotion from their anti-abortion stance, I don't know.  It's quite possible that fund-raising to fight abortions works so well they don't want to upset that "money applecart", so to speak, by meddling in this issue.

And possibly saving a life.

So much for the 6th Commanndment, huh, Catholics?

For a refresher:

Various translations of the 6th Commandment:


'Thou shalt not kill any living thing,' for life is given to all by God, and that which God has given, let not man taketh it away. ~Jesus, Gospel of the Holy Twelve, (earliest known recorded words of Jesus)

"Thou shalt not kill." ~Exodus 20:13 Authorized version of King James

That not being a hypocrite is a bitch, isn't it?

Links: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/10/16/2321004/reflection-and-remorse-as-execution.html

http://www.thenazareneway.com/thou_shalt_not_kill.htm