Opposing ballot initiatives in November ask voters to do away with the death penalty, or to hasten appeals and give the idle condemned something to do with their time, like work.
While it was true, as the Bishop argued, that previous councils had generally condemned something, the expressed intention of Vatican II was to be a pastoral, rather than a doctrinal, Council.
And when a colleague of his revealed an outre side to his teeming lusts - something about a pyramid of bound, naked Muslim men - he was quick to condemn his friend, but something beneath the surface told me that he found the idea a little kinky.
But, she said, "take the woman, and give her five kids and no money, and you have something to condemn her for".
Outsiders who have visited the South, going back to Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederick Law Olmsted or even further, have usually agreed with the natives about the South's distinctiveness, though they have often seen it as something to condemn, not admire.
"We had hoped that you — as someone we and many others have celebrated for your commitment to human dignity and universal human rights — would have done something to condemn and stop the military's brutal campaign and to express solidarity with the targeted Rohingya population," the museum wrote in a March 6 letter to the Myanmar leader.
Beyond Brittany's ultimate decision, I often find myself wondering, "What gives others, who have never been in that situation, the right to condemn this woman for something that has no impact on them?" In that same breath, are the ones who laud her, saying, "She did the right thing!
The solution is, rather, to force online harassers and bullies to think twice about their misconduct and show why it's something we ought to condemn as a society.
The "serious" people would be the first to condemn CND's unilateral nuclear disarmament as "something for nothing" negotiation.
"It makes you feel good to condemn, but it makes a difference only if you make something happen," he said.
