"Activists to Benedict: Please raise animals from the dead"

Animal rights activists have made this sort of request before, but this time Carl Olson embraced it as an opportunity to have a bit of rhetorical fun:

Sure, you might try to argue that I'm misreading or misrepresenting this news story, but if you carefully read between the lines, you'll see that animal rights activists are hoping that Pope Benedict XVI might be able to bring some animals back from the dead:

Rome - Italian animal rights activists have appealed to Pope Benedict XVI to help "save the ermine" by asking him in a letter to refrain from wearing clothing trimmed with the animal's fur.

Since the ermine on the Pope's hats and robes are dead (or so I assume), I can only conclude that when the activists ask the Holy Father to "save the ermine," they are expecting a miracle. An ermine resurrection, if you will. After all, it's difficult to save animals from death once they are already dead; it would require that they come back to life, then be saved from death. I dare say my patron saint, St. Thomas Aquinas, would be hard pressed to fault my crystalline logic in this matter.

Okay, I mostly had to quote him because I respected him so much for using "ermine resurrection" in a grammatically-and-semantically-correct sentence. And he even kept his clothes on.