sink got it straight from Chris Matthews' lying sputtering lips:
MATTHEWS: OK.
Let‘s talk possibly, John, about overkill here. The lawyers for the parents have said, if their daughter dies, there will be a damnation of her soul. This is overkill. If you come in and say that, somehow, Terri Schiavo, in the state she‘s been in for 15 years, will somehow suffer punishment by God because she dies this way, what do you think of that kind of a statement by the lawyers...
FUND: Chris.
MATTHEWS: No, I want your response.
FUND: Chris, one of the worst things that‘s happened is...
MATTHEWS: What is your response to that? To that?
FUND: Chris, one of the worst things that‘s happened in this...
MATTHEWS: No, I need that.
Let me go to Jim.
Jim, I want a response to this. It‘s an incredible statement.
WARREN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: These are Roman Catholics saying that their daughter will be punished in hell because of the way this case is coming down. I have never heard theology like that. I have no idea where it is coming from. But it smacks me as overkill. And I don‘t think it is going to help the parents‘ case.
Jim Warren.
WARREN: Yes, I mean, even factoring their—even factoring their extreme sensitivity, it is an absurdity too gross to be insisted upon. It is a hyperbole beyond the pale.
FUND: Chris, one of the worst decisions the Schindlers made was to retain Randall Terry, who has in extreme background in the pro-life movement. This is a man who is under court order not to go near abortion clinics. This is a man who has made many extreme statements.
I think the Schindlers did hurt their cause by retaining Randall Terry, because he is simply, despite his eloquence, bad news.
MATTHEWS: You agree, though, it is an awful thing to say that the daughter, who has been comatose, not really aware of things going on for 15 years, and somehow she will be blamed by God for what has been done in the courts?
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: What does that mean to say something like that when you‘re Mr. Schindler or Mrs. Schindler?
FUND: Because the emotions run so highly and because everyone in this case seems to privately hate each other within the Schindler and the Schiavo families.
MATTHEWS: Well, that‘s a fair assessment.
FUND: I think—I think the statements are extreme and I think it is unfortunate this has spilled out on national television.
MATTHEWS: Well, it has spilled out when you start issuing statements by your lawyers saying your daughter is going to be damned to hell unless she gets the right decision in a court, which is the most screwball political and religious statement I‘ve ever heard, let alone the law.
You mean that all this time Sink has been condemning the poor suffering Schindler's, its been over a misquote by a liberal main stream media idiot?!?
Sinkspur, you got some 'splainin' to do! Call the chancery office, ASAP!
Oh, why am I not surprised.
John Fund should have said:
'Chris, I think you should quit repeating the lie.'
'Terri's parents did NOT say that about her.'
And that could create additional damnation of her soul or add to the time of her suffering in purgatory.
It does not appear to be Schindler who made the comment sinkspur referenced. Please note what lastchance said in post # 253:
The language is confusing but it is not claiming that Terri will go to hell if someone kills her. Please read further on. The brief explains that as a Catholic Terri would not make the decision to end her life because of the Church teachings condemning Euthanasia and suicide. It says that for her to advocate her own killing by the withholding of food and water would be a sin of the gravest proportions. It is not saying that Terri soul is in danger of hell if this is done to her. It is saying that Terri would not have made this choice because such a choice voluntarily made would endanger her immortal soul.
The lawyer may also be implying that if TERRI had expressed a desire to be STARVED to death in such circumstances as those in which she is now in, prior to her injury, that would have been disobeying the Vatican, and would essentially constitute a request for assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia.
Such a request, IF Terri had made it prior to her injury, WOULD constitute a sinful attitude on her part, and IF fulfilled according to her supposedly expressed will would constitute assisted suicide.
The mainstream media sucks for willfully misrepresenting this little detail.
Freepers who blindly believe the mainstream media when they make such ridiculous claims should be ashamed of themselves.
Catholics who repeated such nonsense on this thread should go to confession now.