Sean Hannity's culture of death

The Fox News frontman celebrates another murder

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Proponents of a culture of life are often charged with forwarding an incomplete picture of what their ideal world would look like and accused of being disproportionately concerned with fetuses and infants. This is complicated by the fact that too often proponents of a culture of life act completely un-Christian. Take, for instance, Sean Hannity.

Despite the football-throwing Fox frontman being vociferously anti-abortion, he recently found time to defend Byron Smith, the Minnesota man convicted this week of murdering two teenagers.

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Elizabeth Stoker writes about Christianity, ethics, and policy for Salon, The Atlantic, and The Week. She is a graduate of Brandeis University, a Marshall Scholar, and a current Cambridge University divinity student. In her spare time, Elizabeth enjoys working in the garden and catching up on news of the temporal world.