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Dana Rohrabacher: Governor, you suggested, and many times have suggested in your speeches, that you are a Christian and that this is an…

On the recordFebruary 8, 2011
Governor, you suggested, and many times have suggested in your speeches, that you are a Christian and that this is an important value to you; you base many of your judgments on your faith. How can you justify in Christian theology that you are taking someone, as the commission is suggesting that we expand the use of the death penalty, and that we take someone who is not at that moment a threat to another human being and is in custody and take that person's life? Isn't that contradictory to your Christian beliefs?
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California
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Feb 8, 2011

Editor's note · Context

Rohrabacher reflects on a press conference with Governor Ronald Reagan regarding the death penalty.

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