Death penalty
In response to Death penalty positions in your May 26th issue calling for supreme Court Justices Alito, Thomas, Roberts, Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett to be denied Communion for their stand on the death penalty, I submit that we Read and follow God’s instructions rather than our personal feelings. God places such a high value on Human life that He commands the death penalty for those who murder, (Not to be confused with justifiable killing). In fact, the death penalty is the only commandment that is repeated in all 5 books of the Torah. I think that says something about God’s position on the subject. (Gen 9:5&6; Exodus 21:12-14, 28-29; Leviticus 24:17. 21; Numbers 35:16-21, 29-33; Deuteronomy 19:11-13).
Lee Burke
St. Margaret Mary, Golden Valley
Abortion reality
The possible overturning of Roe V Wade, and giving the abortion decision back to the states, might help us to admit what abortion really is. It is not only torturing and killing living human babies, but also insulting them by calling their deaths Health Care. Honesty is needed. Death should cause, and require, grieving. Pre-born babies are too small and helpless to fight for themselves against the selfishness exhibited by our forgetting or denying where we came from. We need to thank God, and our mothers, and pass on what we have been given: life. The Silver Rule, the other side of the Golden Rule, says, “Do not do to others what you would not want done to you.”
Catherine Carlson
St. Peter, Forest Lake
