“So, I must point out that our new President has pledged to pursue certain policies that would advance moral evils and threaten human life and dignity.”—words that the never applied to Trump.
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Is that actually so? While I see your broader point, haven't they spoken out against the use of the death penalty in very similar terms?
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That's because Trump had not made it an issue during his campaign. If you look back before and after Trump's inauguration there were bishops' statements critical of Trump's immigration & border wall policies.
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The issues and rhetoric of his campaign were even more extreme—calling for torture, targeting families of terrorists, banning all Muslims from US, promising to lock up his rival, etc.
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