This past week, Judge Greer parted ways with his Southern Baptist church, which had advocated keeping Terri Schiavo alive, after his pastor suggested it would be better if he left.
"You must know that in all likelihood it is this case which will define your career and this case that you will remember in the waning days of life," Calvary Baptist Pastor William Rice wrote to Greer in a letter than later became public. "I hope you can find a way to side with the angels and become an answer to the prayers of thousands.
Even his church has had enough of Judge Greer.
... attempted to influence a sitting judge in deciding the outcome of a case.
Southern Baptists have a longer history of being explicitly anti-euthanasia by starvation and dehydration. To their credit they had the foresight for drawing public attention to the issue of euthanasia as early as 1992, with their opposition to “efforts to designate food and water as ‘extraordinary treatment,’ and urge that nutrition and hydration continue to be viewed as compassionate and ordinary medical care and humane treatment.