Posted on 03/26/2005 3:34:39 PM PST by thompson
This past week, Judge Greer parted ways with his Southern Baptist church, which had advocated keeping Terri Schiavo alive, after his pastor suggested it would be better if he left.
"You must know that in all likelihood it is this case which will define your career and this case that you will remember in the waning days of life," Calvary Baptist Pastor William Rice wrote to Greer in a letter than later became public. "I hope you can find a way to side with the angels and become an answer to the prayers of thousands.
Even his church has had enough of Judge Greer.
The State of Florida was founded 229 years ago?
Do not give up the faith thompson He rose on this day to bring hope to all!
... attempted to influence a sitting judge in deciding the outcome of a case.
I share your thoughts.
Being starved to death is about as demeaning a way to die as there is. Suffocation, a shot to the head, a lethal injection are arguably more humane.
If someone wants to be starved to death, they should be required to put it in writing.
The law allowing Terri to be put to death on her alleged verbal wishes was not passed until after she sustained brain damage.
That alone should preclude this barbaric form of execution.
It is murder, plain and simple.
Southern Baptists have a longer history of being explicitly anti-euthanasia by starvation and dehydration. To their credit they had the foresight for drawing public attention to the issue of euthanasia as early as 1992, with their opposition to “efforts to designate food and water as ‘extraordinary treatment,’ and urge that nutrition and hydration continue to be viewed as compassionate and ordinary medical care and humane treatment.
Has it come to this - that American citizens have become no more than puppets of the state? - that fear of our own laws incites us to inaction?
Fear of judicial "interpretation" of our laws incites us to inaction.
Sadly, you are correct.
Add to that, that the judge ordered not only pulled her feeding tube, but also that no one could try to give her water by mouth.
Which turns Judge Greer's order into one of assisted suicide, a crime punishable as manslaughter under Florida law, I believe.
The right to die law allows disconnection of a feeding tube, not being deprived of food and water by mouth.
That part of the order should subject Judge Greer to criminal prosecution.
Also, the use of the term “vegetable” on a human being, even if seriously ill or disabled in the exercise of his highest functions, is and always will be a human being, and he will never become a ‘vegetable’ or an ‘animal.’ Removing her nutrition and hydration without any consideration for her religious beliefs is, a denial of her religious liberty and her right to freely practice her religious beliefs.
It should, and is blatant, but even his buddy in the federal court decided that the state wasn't involved in her death.
It's maddening.
We were discussing that last night. It allows people to start seeing these disabled people as subhuman. If they aren't human, then killing them is easy.
I don't care what the mental capacity, or lack thereof, of a human being is, they are still a human being.
The order to disconnect the feeding tube and the order to not feed or give her water by mouth came from death Judge Greer, and everyone knows it.
It does not matter at whose behest it is done.
The appellate courts are comprised of fecal matter excrement judges more interested in protecting their power and the legal edifice of fecal matter they have constructed under the guise of interpreting our laws.
It's beyond maddening, it's an abomination.
Remember the politicians and judges this Easter. They will all be enjoying their Easter dinners while Terri is starving to death and bleeding from her eyes and mouth.
It is obvious, especially after listening to Felos' description of Terri, that he thinks he is God's agent. This, after all, has become his life's work - to assist those he has condemned simply so he can be part of the process. It is an obsession and I say Felos is missing a few screws.
He is also a misogynist, if you read his book.
His wife divorced him because he is ugly. He lost it after that.
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