On Wednesday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m., Dreamcatcher will read Canadian playwright Emil Sher's play, MOURNING DOVE. Company members Clark Carmichael (Montclair), Laura Ekstrand (Union), and Harry Patrick Christian (Montclair) will perform the play. Inspired by the case of a Saskatchewan father convicted of the mercy-killing of his severely disabled daughter and echoed in the United States by the Terry Schiavo case, MOURNING DOVE asks the question whether it is more loving to let a suffering child live, or to end her life. The playwright draws no immediate conclusions, and asks the audience to grapple with the complexity of the parents' experience and their compassion for their child.
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More "loving"? What kind of a moral is that?
The question is between obedience to God and rebellion against His Commandments. Nowhere do moral teachings tell you to kill your daughter if she's handicapped. It isn't ever "loving" to murder your own child.