Fresh news delivered to you every day. Visit our Circulation department for print subscription information. In other areas, there is agreement. For example, both the Republican Party, for which Bush is the most visible speaker, and the United Methodist Church favor a ban on human cloning. Both the Republicans and the UMC express support for the right to participate in labor organizations and to bargain collectively.
Capital punishment is one area where clear differences exist.
United Methodism's official pronouncements condemn the death penalty while Bush upholds it. I believe that individual states should make every effort to ensure that their criminal justice systems are fair and impartial, and that every defendant has full access to the state and federal courts. Any time DNA evidence, in the context of all the evidence, is deemed to be relevant in the guilt or innocence of a person on death row, I believe we need to use it. However, the gun laws in Texas have been liberalized during Bush's governorship, according to a gun control advocate. He added that Bush also signed into law a bill that prohibited Texas cities from suing gun companies to recover the costs associated with treating gunshot victims.