How about a movie, "Deathheart - The story of Judgenfuhrer Greer's Judicial Murder of a Handicapped Woman"
Posted on 04/01/2005 9:19:49 AM PST by gina girl
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/31/225349.shtml
"Passion of Christ" producer-director Mel Gibson is blasting St. Petersburg, Florida Bishop Robert Lynch for "being quite indifferent" to the plight of Terri Schiavo.
Not only was Lynch silent while Terri Schiavo was forcibly starved to death -- he issued a statement directly at odds with Church teaching that food and water is basic sustenance and can not be withheld by private choice.
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The Bishop conveniently left the country on a trip just days before she died Thursday. "I think there will be repercussions from this," Gibson told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity on Wednesday.
"For a start, I mean, there's a faith community down there in Florida and they have that Bishop Lynch who is being quite indifferent to the whole thing."
"He should be sticking up for this woman's rights and her family's rights," Gibson said. "I think he's left the country at the moment so he doesn't have to deal with it."
Bishop Lynch is currently in Indonesia surveying damage from December's tsunami.
But in a statement posted to the web site of his St. Petersburg diocese before Easter, he didn't sound particularly upset over Schiavo's death sentence.
"At the end of the day the decision to remove Terri’s artificial feeding tube will be that of her husband, Michael," he explained. "It is he who will give the order, not the courts or certainly the governor or legislature or the medical personnel surrounding and caring for Terri. In other words, as I have said from the beginning of this sad situation, the decision will be made within a family."
Bishop Lynch called for "mediation" between Michael Schiavo and Terri's parents, saying that the 41-year-old woman's plight is a "complex and tragic situation."
The Vatican's position on Schiavo's starvation death was far stronger.
Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in Rome, blasted the decision to kill her in a March 7th statement:
"Without the tube, which is providing life-giving hydration and nutrition, Terri Schiavo will die. But it is not that simple. She will die a horrible and cruel death. She will not simply die; she will have death inflicted upon her over a number of terrible days, even weeks. How can anyone who claims to speak of the promotion and protection of human rights - of human life - remain silent?"
Hours after Schiavo's death was announced on Thursday, Cardinal Martino called it "murder."
"When you deprive somebody of food and water, what else is it? Nothing else but murder."
He was speaking on the case "according to the teaching of the pope."
The Pope has written that food and water is not extraordinary support for life and that it can not morally be withheld from a dying or incapacitated person.
Some of these bishops commit great sin by their actions or lack of.... they give great scandal to the church and cause our Lord so much sorrow.
It is good to hear from every person that does not support murder. This is no longer the land of the free, and the home of the brave. Only a coward would kill an innocent one like Terri Schiavo.
Gibson calls a spade a spade. Lynch is a coward.
How about a movie, "Deathheart - The story of Judgenfuhrer Greer's Judicial Murder of a Handicapped Woman"
I knew it! I knew it! Now comes the people who could have done something saying "How unfortunate!" or "What a tragedy!" GGGGGRrrrrrrrr!!!!
The decision to have an abortion is generally made "within the family".
LOL. Pope Melvin I. I like it, and I'm not even Catholic. The only problem is that nobody's going to want the pope on film killing people and cursing like an angry drunken sailor.
It's at this point that I'm reminded of a quote by Edward Teller, a famous physicist:
"Scientists naturally have a right and a duty to have opinions. But their science gives them no special insight into public affairs. There is a time for scientists and movie stars and people who have flown the Atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more seriously than they should be."
I hope you don't mean that. There are bishops who are cowards. There always have been. It is likely that there always will be. But to suggest that Mel Gibson is more holy and capable of leadership in the Church than any cardinal is dim. That being said, Mel would have made a hell of a priest.
Why are you defending murderers? Do you know them?
I guess that explains why Nat Hentoff, a liberal athiest Jew, decried Terri's treatment. Along with Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nader and Lanni Davis.
You need to get out more.
Would you please quit posting this on every single thread.
Besides, it doesn't say anything.
I'm starting to think most of Pinellas County is as crooked as a dog's hind leg. Including some of the clergy (exception: the minister who showed Greer the door).
This person has a mantra and an agenda--same post appears everywhere. Like spam. (And about as worthwhile.)
JUDGE GREER ORDERED the removal of ALL NUTRITION and HYDRATION from Theresa Marie Schiavo DODO BRAIN. Even were that NOT the case, NO ONE, NO FAMILY MEMBER, NO FRIEND AND NO JUDGE has the MORAL AUTHORITY to order the removal of ALL NUTRITION and HYDRATION from anyone.
Mel is right. LYNCH was DESPICABLE and should be removed. Many calls were made to his office (and of course NONE returned). I will make a complaint to the VATICAN!
Spamming this sort of thing could prove hazardous.
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