To someone like Eugene Robinson, it would be weird. If he doesn’t understand it already, no one could explain it to him.
Wonder if Gene is aware that Abe and Mary Todd Lincoln kept the coffin of their young son in a place where they could open it for months after his death
What is really weird is that this straight up racist and Liberal hack still has more than 20 people reading his crap. The 20 people being the staff and so called “talent” at PMSLSD.
The news sure gets campy when they think a person with genuine religious convictions is getting too uppity.
I haven't heard the left squawk like this since Sarah Palin was in the news. It's a productive sound. I get nervous when they're too comfortable.
How DARE Rick Santorum place value on his son’s tragically short life? I think that his decision was wise, and a beautiful moment for familial bonding. Everyone was able to grieve together, and give thanks for a wonderful life lost. Bob
Maybe to Robinson a dead baby is like a fetus aborted and dumped in the trash can, but to those who are pro-life, a baby is not a trash discard.
Is this all they can find on Santorum?
The least they can do is find something substantial worth the read.
What is the fully traditional means of treating the body of a deceased Christian in the Latin West? I know that Orthodox custom calls for the body to be washed in wine and dressed for burial by the family (in the case of laymen or those in minor orders), and for psalms to be read over the body from the time of death until a priest arrives to serve the First Pannakhida.
If the very traditional among Latin Christians have similar practices, some needs to start pointing this out loudly every time these nitwits in the media bring this up, calling them on the carpet for showing cultural intolerance toward Sen. Santorum and his family.
Keep in mind that these are the self identified
“Elites”.
Cretins, all of them.
Eugene Robinson is friggin’ WEIRD....
If I were Axelrod, I’d send a cease and desist memo to all of my allies in the press on this one. This conversation leads directly to Obama’s opposition to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. Do they really want to have that discussion? McCain let him off the hook on that and all life issues in 2008. Santorum won’t.
I hope they keep running their mouths. The contrast between the two candidates on the issue couldn’t be any starker.
Pure evil.
I had never heard of Eugene Robinson. He sounds quite intolerant of how others grieve. He must be a liberal.
So Gene may not vote for Santorum? How predictable.
Pray for America
Mind your own damn business, Eugene, is your name short for eugenics?
This child was Santorum’s child. He and his wife loved their child. People grieve in their own way.
So shut the heck up.
Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis! I guess its weird to dress dead people up and lay them out in a coffin for everyone to walk past and say goodbye too.
The worthless never understand the worthwhile.
Hmm, I might just have to donate some money to Santorum’s campaign over this one....the risk of unintended consequences. The more anyone attacks Santorum on this issue, the more people will rally around Santorum. Just a prediction.