Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“Pro-life” is a political term for a political problem. It is mush theologically.
Jesus had the perfect opportunity to correct the Good Thief who said that he and his fellow criminal deserved their fate.
I am anti death penalty, and even I roll my eyes at Hawkins’ sentiment.
If abortion and the death penalty are the same:
What are we punishing the infant for? 🤔
The nurderer of homicide in the first degree inflicts capital punishment upon his victim without trial or cause, violating all civil rights.
Please remember that the power of attorney of the condemned nurderer of homicide in the first degree is used to execute capital punishment on him, a temporal punishment made to spare the murderer of homicide in the first degree hell.
If capital punishment were not temporal punishment, the state (the citizen) could not employ it.
Consider this: a man rapes and strangles a seven year old girl and gets life, life in prison for thirty years. Equal Justice ?
Any citizen is empowered by his citizenship to execute the condemned murderer through the murderer’s own power of attorney as he deserved execution starting with the murderer in the state as a citizen.
Germaine Grisez fell into error when he displaced the human dignity of the murderer of homicide in the first degree. Homicide in the first degree is the free will choice of the murderer. All, individuals who deny the murderer his free will choice and the consequences deny what God has made and endowed to all men, free will and the consequences.
The murderer of homicide in the first degree as a member of the state and of the government brings himself to Justice and is executed through his own power of attorney.
I can forgive my murderer. I cannot forgive your murderer without becoming an accessory after the fact.
By defining the murderer of homicide in the first degree by his human dignity, Germaine Grisez defines all men as murderers of homicide in the first degree.
God creates all men souls in original innocence.
Men who maintain their soul’s original innocence as the Blessed Virgin Mary does, cannot be denied by their original innocence.
Germaine Grisez bears false witness against the Blessed Virgin Mary and all men who maintain their soul’s original innocence.
Is it Justice to define the murderer ( of homicide in the first degree) by his human dignity and refuse to define the victim of homicide in the first degree by his human dignity? Is it Justice to define hatred, jealousy and evil as human dignity?
Retribution is given to the innocent victim of homicide in the first degree. Retribution is the acknowledgement of the indwelling of the Supreme Sovereingn Being, the image and likeness of God, in the soul of the homicide victim. Acknowledgement of the indwelling of God in the homicide victim defines the human dignity and sovereignty of the personhood of the victim.
By way of this crime, homicide in the first degree, the retribution due and demanded in Justice and given for the victim, all mankind is acknowledged as children of God. Mankind’s sovereign personhood and human dignity in each and every individual’s human soul is acknowledged by the state as endowed by their Creator. Each and every human soul’s existence is ratifed by society.
If retribution is not demanded in Justice for the innocent victim of homicide in the first degree, Justice will not have been done. The fabric of society will not have been mended. Mankind will spill into the bottomless pit. Is it Justice to allow the condemned to relive and enjoy getting away with murder in the first degree for years?
Note I: Lex Talionis, the law of an eye for an eye, is promulgated to prevent the killing of a person for striking his neighbor or for other injury. Lex Talionis also prohibits killing innocent persons for crimes done by others as in war; retaliation for bloodguilt.
When forgiven by their victim and by the Sacrament of Penance, the murderer in homicide in the first degree must be executed according to the Bible: “He must be put to death, taken even from my altar (sanctuary) and put to death.” Exodus 21:14. The death penalty is the temporal punishment for homocide in the first degree.
Capital punishemnt is deterrence. Do not let your child be seduced into believing that he can exchange his life in prison for a million dollars by becoming a contract killer.
Hitler and John Wayne Gacy both may have repented on their death.
Dutch Schulze, a killer with ten bullets in him dying was baptized on his death bed.
The killer of homicide in the first degree, murder in stealth as a citizen of the state brings himself to Justice. The executioner of capital punishment exercises the power of attorney of the condemned. The murderer is brought to Justice by his own power of attorney which cannot be denied to him as the condemned murderer of homicide in the first degree is a sovereign person.
Giving a murderer of homicide in the first degree a pass by ostracizing him from the human race and calling it human dignity is wrong because the murder cannot be ostracized of his sovereign personhood endowed at the very first moment of his existence by God. Evil has no place in sovereign personhood. The murderer again has separated himself from the human race and by his own power of attorney brings himself to Justice, eternal and infinite Justice before God.
All self-defense is the power of attorney of the aggressor employed by the victim to maintain his freedom and civil rights.
Deterrence of murder is pro-life.
The internal transition of moral theology by many in Church leadership always is stunning to see. Austin Fagothey’s “Right and Reason”, first published (of course with an imprimatur) in 1953, contains the traditional Catholic defense of the death penalty—as well as many other traditional Catholic ethical principles— but what one often hears today by many in “Church leadership” is evidently a different faith.
A complete continental drift in a few decades.
On capital punishment, “Right and Reason,” pp 346-347.