OsoDorado said:
BearGoggles said:
DiabloWags said:
OsoDorado said:
BearGoggles said:
And for what its worth, Kirk's widow said she forgives the killer. So she seems to be applying the Christian values you suggest should apply.
What are the chances that Trump will follow the same "Christian forgiveness values" and commute the killer's forthcoming death sentence? That's right: Zero.
This is the rare example of the broken clock being wrong twice a day. Trump will not pardon the shooter because (among other things), the shooter will face state charges and Trump has no power to issue a pardon. So you're actually correct on this front, though as usual your reasoning is flawed.
And if Trump or any other republican politician issued a pardon based on Christian notions of forgiveness, you would be the first person screaming "fascist" or "theocrat". TDS
You're just playing word games. All you've shown is that I'm not a lawyer. You did not disprove my fundamental claim that Donald Trump doesn't have the same "Christian forgiveness values" as Kirk's widow.
Even though Trump won't have the power to commute the killer's forthcoming death sentence if it is for a Utah state charge, it is obviously true (and you never directly challenged it) that Trump would never lift a finger "behind the scenes" to have the killer's sentence commuted, let alone openly advocate for it.
And the reason is simple: Trump and the vast majority of his MAGA supporters -- even Evangelical Christians -- will demand that the killer pay the ultimate price for the murder.
I have a feeling that even Erika Kirk -- who "forgave" Tyler Robinson for murdering her husband -- will never lift a finger to oppose giving Robinson the death penalty. That's what real "forgiveness" would require, and what I would applaud.
Yes.
Kirk associates will claim forgiveness publicly like good little Christians, and then turn and weep in their grief as the Law executes the killer. And they'll say "oh, that's state law, we don't have anything to do with that." Secretly, they are good with a religious war. Many of them, at least. (So much for turn the other cheek - nobody practices that, hardly).
I'm not particularly advocating one disposition of the Tyler Robinson case one way or another. I'm just commenting on the hypocrisy.
Oh, what a wonderful man Charlie Kirk was - except that he demeaned many classes of people and promoted policies against them.
Oh, what a bunch of wonderful Christians we are - except if you were proper Christians (IN MY OPINION) you wouldn't be good with Robinson being put to death.