Word: argument
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Tobin maintains that our society should discount religious belief in favor of "legal argument or moral reversal." I presume that since the death penalty is legal in the state of Missouri, Tobin does not mean that the governor should have invoked a law as justification for the commuation of Mease's sentence. Instead, I can only assume that she meant that the death penalty should be repealed in Missouri. As long as the First Amendment exists, I suggest that any point of view (even religious) could be used in such a "legal argument"--a debate...
Next comes Tobin's invocation of "moral reversal." I suppose Tobin is arguing that religion should play no role in morality for those who are religious (still a majority of the population, especially in middle America). The implications of such an argument are so absurd they need not be addressed...
...Carnahan commuted the sentence of a convicted triple murderer from death to life without parole. Carnahan, a Baptist, announced that "I continue to support capital punishment," but after the Pontiff's "direct and personal appeal...I decided to grant his request." The irony is that while the Pope's argument that "the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil" may have swayed Carnahan, if only temporarily, Gallup polls find 53% of the Catholic American flock rejecting the position. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week...
...having lunch with Buckwheat at the Home for Retired Racial Stereotypes in Hollywood last week when the Kingfish rushed in. "Holy mak'rul dare, Brother Buckwheat, a real stupid argument has erupted in Washington," he announced. "You better git dare rat away." "Dare I is," Buckwheat proclaimed, leaping up from the table and inviting me to follow. "It's stupid," he explained. "The Society for Turning Up Phony Issues and Diversions, a secret outfit dedicated to making us black folks look like fools by stirring up dumb racial controversies. I'm coming out of retirement to fight them...
...defense will strongly argue that the ski lift cable was not marked on maps, while prosecutors will maintain that the pilot was obligated to fly at a minimum of 1,000 feet and the cable was hung at about 370 feet. "The prosecution's argument will be that yardsticks don't lie," says Thompson. Whatever the trial's outcome, many of Ashby's colleagues have already weighed the matter in their minds, and their judgment does not bode well for the pilot. "Many other Marine pilots have been angered by the accident and have concluded the crew was hot-dogging...