{"id":104531,"date":"2018-08-06T00:27:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T07:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=104531"},"modified":"2018-07-30T12:46:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T19:46:50","slug":"heres-a-hopeful-sign-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2018\/08\/heres-a-hopeful-sign-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Here’s a hopeful sign!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A guy named Jon Crane writes:<\/p>\n

I handle PR for Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty<\/a> (CCATDP).<\/p>\n

The nationwide trend of conservative Republicans re-thinking capital punishment continues and conservative Catholics are very involved.<\/p>\n

The most recent example comes from New Hampshire where both houses of the Republican-controlled state legislature passed a death penalty repeal bill during this year\u2019s legislative session. Conservative Catholic lawmakers were at the forefront of that historic vote.<\/p>\n

The latest annual Gallup Poll showed a 10-point drop in GOP death penalty support<\/a> year-to-year nationwide and a report from CCATDP shows a significant increase in Republican state legislators opposing the death penalty.<\/p>\n

The report can be found at this link: https:\/\/conservativesconcerned.org\/TheRightWay\/<\/a><\/p>\n

At the grassroots level, there are now eleven CCATDP state-based groups (Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Utah, Tennessee, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Montana, Washington, and Nebraska). Catholics are deeply involved with each state-based group.<\/p>\n

Finally, the founding supporter of CCATDP is a prominent conservative Catholic, Richard Viguerie, as is the founder of the very first CCATDP group in Montana, now former state Sen. Roy Brown.<\/p>\n

An increasing number of conservative Catholics on the national and local level who believe in limited government, fiscal responsibility, and a consistent life ethic, are re-thinking capital punishment.<\/p>\n

I thank you for your time and consideration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Excellent!\u00a0 This, and not foolish \u201cCatholic defenses of the death penalty\u201d is the obvious way for Catholics, pro-life people, and America to go.\u00a0 Keeping America on a list that essentially includes only Communist butchers and Islamic despotisms, all in defiance of the clear teaching of the Church and the consensus of the civilized world is massively stupid.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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