A huge hat-tip to Sean Dailey for the link on the Coalition’s Facebook page to this absolutely outrageous pair of video clips from EWTN:
Why is EWTN giving Marc Thiessen a platform on which to spread pro-torture views, including his belief that enhanced interrogation techniques including waterboarding are not torture and are perfectly fine for a Catholic to promote?
A better question–where is Marc Thiessen’s bishop? What does he have to say about this disgraceful exhibition of pro-torture propaganda?
UPDATE: You can send an email to viewer@ewtn.com to let them know what you think. I strongly recommend that anyone who cares about this issue take a moment to write. I, for one, would like to see a guest with some background or experience in Catholic moral theology tackle the question of torture, and particularly whether waterboarding can be excluded from the Catechism’s prohibition of torture.
That man should be subjected to the waterboarding himself, and then be allowed (forced!) to tell the world if he still thinks waterboarding is an allowed way of interrogation!
I am anti-death penalty, BUT in some cases one could turn around, and find a person worthy of the death penalty!