[Congressman Billybob]

I wasn't going to write about Terri Schiavo, because thousands of others have written about her already. But I do have a few things to offer that are not in the MSM.

John / Billybob

[ex-snook]

Good post. "What we have here is a gross failure of common sense and decency in state and federal courts. Terri Schiavo should be in the physical custody of her parents, who love her, not in the hands of her “husband,” who wants her dead. Her soul now and forever is in the hands of God."

God rules.

[Robert A Cook PE]

For your services. For your family.

(Raises glass in memory of her thirst for justice.)

May she rest (now) in peace with her God.

[MHGinTN]

Than you, Esquire.

[MHGinTN]

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[marshmallow]

For Terri, the suffering and agony is over. She's gone home to God.

For Michael Schiavo, George Greer and all the rest who collaborated in this act of infamy, it's just beginning. Like Cain, who slew his brother Abel, they assume that once the object of their vexation is dead, the show is over and life will go on as planned.

It never does.

God said to Cain "Where is thy brother? What hast thou done with him?" Every murderer hears these words in his heart, hard though he may try to stop his ears and pretend he's done nothing wrong. Cain was tortured by them as they opened up to him, the reality of what he had done. Like Cain, Schiavo now must face the reality of what he's done.

Some repent, like Norma McCorvey who precipitated Roe v Wade. The rest dig themselves deeper into denial and only compound their misery which gradually consumes them.

Michael Schiavo does not in any way realize what it is that he has condemned himself to.

[joesbucks]

The attorneys for Terri’s family should have filed for her divorce from Michael Schiavo seven years ago. He was clearly guilty of adultery. She was clearly blameless. I’m unaware of any divorce action brought by a “next friend” for a woman who cannot speak. But I am aware of divorces the other way – husbands and wives who obtained divorces from spouses who were profoundly disabled, or in prison, or who had disappeared. Turnabout is fair play. Had Michael been removed as the husband, he would not have been named, or continued, as her guardian. Therefore, what is happening now would not have occurred.

I've written on many occaisions that one issue here is that when Terri married Schiavo, they legally and scripturally became one. One family unit. There have been many legal twists and turns regarding the institution of marriage from a legal perspective, but as scritpure is written, while the husband and wife are to live as one, it is the role of the man to be accountable for the household and the woman to support him in it. And yes, the household is to be run in a Godly manner.

I'm not sure why a divorce didn't happen and instituted by the parents, but I'm going to guess. My guess is based on what I've heard repeated by those of the Catholic faith who are in horrible marriages. This doesn't mean it represents the church or church cannon, just what some people of that faith have expressed to me in the past.

As I understand it, there are two scriptural reasons for divorce as explained in one chapter of Corinthians. It states that adultry and a non-believer initiating it against a believer are the two reasons. No other reason is given.

However, many in the Catholic faith believe even when those conditions are met, divorce is felt to be shunned. Many, even after multiple events of adultry feel compelled to remain in the marriage even though the bonds of trust have been broken.

While there has been some talk about the Schindler's asking Michael to initiate a divorce, it appears they wanted the onus and stain of divorce on him and not her. The preceeding may account for that.

In addition, there was something that one of her family or family spokespeople stated. That her death in the manner it was done would not allow her soul to be saved or something to that extent. It caused quite a stir on this forum as well as others and that type of talk was quickly quieted. That would lead me to believe that the family may have had the same concerns regarding them when they could have initiating a divorce on her behalf.

Just my thoughts that could be on the money, have some partial validity or be totally off base.