re: Is it unconstitutional to be anti-capital punishment due to religion?

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although I wish prison was harder.

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You seriously don't think Angola is hard enough?

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I told him because of my Catholic faith I am against it, which he said is weakness in politics and shows that I could not think independently. Also, he said people who use religion as a crutch as anti-Constitutionalists who cite religion in decision making.

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A person's morals always informs their politics. I qualify this statement with a) that shouldn't be the only factor and b) the question is where to draw the line between which morals government should enforce and which it should leave be.

EDIT - Also, with top-down religions like the Catholic Church, I would question the degree to which - say, a SCOTUS justice's - morals are uninformed by their own conscience vs. the Church hierarchy.

I'm personally against the death penalty not because I think it is immoral to execute someone for cold blooded murder - but because a) any inequities in the justice system are magnified when death is involved, the penalty is not applied fairly and evenly and I don't think it ever could be b) the justice system does make mistakes, the thought of executing an innocent person is hard to bear. That being said, when a guilty person is executed for a cold blooded murder - I don't lose sleep over it.