TOBIAS WINRIGHT OF SLU ON GUNS
January 27, 2013 5:28 pm | Author: Jerry Berger
The March for Life in D.C. on Friday renewed the annual impassioned call to end legalized abortion, 40 years after Roe vs. Wade deciision. Now, a few Roman Catholic leaders and theologians are asking why so many of those who call themselves “pro-life” have been silent, or even opposed on controlling the guns used to kill and injure people. Among those who signed a letter to the Vatican saying that if marchers and politicians want to defend life they should support “common-sense” reforms to address gun violence in our country. Among the signers was Tobias Winright, an associate prof of theological ethics at SLU and a former law enforcement officer, who told the N.Y. Times: . . .”Pope John Paul II promoted the notion of “culture of life” that encompassed opposition to abortion as well as euthanasia and the death penalty. Winright said he was encouraged when the Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi recently praised American religious leaders and the Obama administration for proposals to limit guns.
As an atheist I have to laugh at the hypocrisy and silence of many “pro-life” catholics on gun control!They also are silent about the massive number of pedophile catholic priests sexually abusing innocent children and the cover-ups of these sexual abuses!
Retired 1 is absolutely right about the hypocrisy of the church. At the same time, the pope came out this past weekend saying that we should never forget the holocaust. He said it should be a reminder that we should never allow any kind of hatred and intolerance. I guess he forgets that he has been making numerous speeches denouncing gay people. The hatred and intolerance caused by this kind of talk causes many of the adolescent “good Christians” to think that it is okay to bully those who they perceive as different. How many young people will be pushed into taking their own lives because they have been taught to hate themselves. This is the epitome of hypocrisy.