City Man arrested outside Fla. hospice (College Prof Tasered after trying to bring Terri water)

Scranton Times-Tribune ^ | 3/30/2005 | Josh Brodesky

[RedBloodedAmerican]

You state:

Jesus broke the law as established in the Old Testament on numerous occations

Yet Christ stated

Matthew 5:17 - Think not that I am come to make void the law or the prophets; I am not come to make void, but to fulfil.

and your judgement of me is wrong. You know nothing about what I have or have not studied.

And, she is not being "tortured by the state".

[RedBloodedAmerican]

World's dumbest criminal award. The Pinellas Park police picked him up that day. But I am sure Jesus told him to do it.

[Aquinasfan]

First, the phrase "starved to death" shouldn't be thrown around loosely.

If the shoe fits...

Those other residents are passing away and their families are suffering grief and loss of a loved one.

And?

It is pretty callous to marginalize their suffering for Terri's cause.

That their relatives may have to use an adjoining parking lot? I've had plenty of relatives die, including my parents. If these people were protesting outside at the time, I would have been high-fiving them on the way in to visit.

If you, your spouse, parent or child were dying in hospice, how would you feel about the circus going on outside.

See above.

I live around the corner from the hospice. It's on a dead end street. Only one way in and out. The visitors and guests have to get through the protestor throngs and the herds of news trucks.

That's a very small price to pay, considering that they're trying to prevent a woman from being murdered.

Yesterday, one woman was called because her grandfather was about to pass away. She rushed out the door and got hung up in the protestors by security for 30 minutes. There are so many people trying to get in to save Terri, security doesn't know people with legitimate business from the Terri supporters. In the mean time, she could not keep her promise to be with her grandfather when he passed away. When she did finally get in, he was already gone.

That's too bad. But the blame falls on the murderers, not the protestors.

I understand the heartfelt desire to help Terri, but the people there need to back off and let the hospice help its other residents, too. On top of that, its so bad that the elementary school kitty-corner to the hospice was closed.

Who cares?

[jjmcgo]

Timothy and Paul and every other human who has claimed that God spoke through him/her is entitled to their own opinion. Timothy's self-imprimatur holds no sway with me. Either Jesus said it or a human said it. Big difference in credibility and how I respond.
Bottom line: It's either God's word or it isn't.
Call me Thomas, I guess.

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