Death sentence restored

What do Amy Coney Barrett, Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and, formerly, Neil Gorsuch have in common? They are (or, in Gorsuch’s case, were) Catholic. And what did all of them but Sonia Sotomayor do March 4? They decided to make us all murderers, too. The Catholic majority of the court gave us the bullet, the rope, the switch, put the needle in our hands, to kill a living, breathing, human being. Regardless of the blood on Tsarnaev’s hands — and I say this as a potential victim of the (Boston Marathon) bombing, having stood on the very spot a mere 20 minutes before one of the bombs went off — the Supreme Court’s Catholics have delivered us Tsarnaev, and now his blood will be on my hands. On your hands. On every priest’s hands. On every child’s hands. On every policeman’s hands. On every grandmother’s hands. We all have been, and continue to be, murderers. The Catholics on the Supreme Court could have stopped this. But they didn’t. Just because we won’t be there to personally do it, doesn’t make us any less guilty of murder. Murder. Let that really sink in. I had been right there at the finish line. I heard the bombs go off. My husband, then next to me sitting on a curb after his race, felt the explosions. But another killing for killings just doesn’t make sense. I don’t want to kill anyone. Where is the outcry? Oh, I’m sure Jesus will give the justices a pass. After all, they’re Catholics. Right?

Elizabeth Rosenwinkel
St. Albert the Great, Minneapolis

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