The Tragedy of Culture of Death Conservatism

…that is, the kind of conservatism Rick Perry represents, is that eagerness to butcher a severely mentally ill man is construed as moral strength while the Church’s teaching is construed as wimpy weakness.

The Church’s approach to inflicting death is “How can we avoid killing unless we absolutely have to?”

The culture of death, left *and* right, begins with the question, “When do we *get* to kill somebody?”