{"id":101654,"date":"2017-12-09T00:44:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T07:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=101654"},"modified":"2017-12-08T23:33:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T06:33:27","slug":"bravo-dave-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/12\/bravo-dave-armstrong.html","title":{"rendered":"Bravo to Dave Armstrong!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u2026for coming completely on board with the Church\u2019s position on the death penalty. He now completely rejects it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

My position for as long as I can remember has been against the death penalty,\u00a0except<\/em>\u00a0in the case of mass murderers and terrorists. I was more generally in favor of it in the past (not sure how long ago that was). Thus, in more recent years I have been basically opposed to it, with only relatively rare and extraordinary exceptions to the \u201crule.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result of wonderful group discussion with\u00a0Dr. Robert Fastiggi<\/a>\u00a0(professor of systematic theology at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit), at my house last night, I have now changed my opinion to being\u00a0totally against<\/em>\u00a0capital punishment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

God bless Dr. Robert Fastiggi!<\/p>\n

Well done, Dave Armstrong!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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