"Even a convicted murderer gets their last meal (and a drink of water) on the same day they die."-Paloma_55
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Posted on 04/03/2005 9:34:17 AM PDT by brigada
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/31/225349.shtml
"Passion of the Christ" producer-director Mel Gibson is blasting St. Petersburg, Fla., Bishop Robert Lynch for "being quite indifferent" to the plight of Terri Schiavo.
Not only was Lynch silent while Terri Schiavo was forcibly starved to death – he issued a statement directly at odds with Church teaching that food and water is basic sustenance and can not be withheld by private choice.
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The bishop conveniently left the country on a trip just days before she died Thursday.
"I think there will be repercussions from this," Gibson told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity on Wednesday.
"For a start, I mean, there's a faith community down there in Florida and they have that Bishop Lynch, who is being quite indifferent to the whole thing."
"He should be sticking up for this woman's rights and her family's rights," Gibson said. "I think he's left the country at the moment so he doesn't have to deal with it."
Bishop Lynch is currently in Indonesia surveying damage from December's tsunami.
But in a statement posted to the Web site of his St. Petersburg diocese before Easter, he didn't sound particularly upset over Schiavo's death sentence.
"At the end of the day the decision to remove Terri’s artificial feeding tube will be that of her husband, Michael," he explained. "It is he who will give the order, not the courts or certainly the governor or legislature or the medical personnel surrounding and caring for Terri. In other words, as I have said from the beginning of this sad situation, the decision will be made within a family."
Bishop Lynch called for "mediation" between Michael Schiavo and Terri's parents, saying that the 41-year-old woman's plight is a "complex and tragic situation."
The Vatican's position on Schiavo's starvation death was far stronger.
Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in Rome, blasted the decision to kill her, in a March 7 statement:
"Without the tube, which is providing life-giving hydration and nutrition, Terri Schiavo will die. But it is not that simple. She will die a horrible and cruel death. She will not simply die; she will have death inflicted upon her over a number of terrible days, even weeks. How can anyone who claims to speak of the promotion and protection of human rights – of human life – remain silent?"
Hours after Schiavo's death was announced on Thursday, Cardinal Martino called it "murder."
"When you deprive somebody of food and water, what else is it? Nothing else but murder."
He was speaking on the case "according to the teaching of the pope."
The pope has written that food and water is not extraordinary support for life and that it cannot morally be withheld from a dying or incapacitated person.
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Mel Gibson...Everything and more than a woman would want. Physical Strengh and Spiritual Strength to name a couple.(and it doesn't hurt that he looks so good!)
The bishop is wrong...in the end it wasn't Michael's choice...the judge ORDERED the tube removed and ORDERED that she not receive natural food and water. In other words, the judge ordered her death and Schiavo would have had to get another motion approved to prevent it.
"Everything and more than a woman would want."
HECK YES!
And this Bishop sounds awful, I mean the LAW may have to see Michael as the husband, but you'd think the BISHOP would have more brains than that.
Maybe the bishop was weak and fell prey to the same demon a lot of public figures do,,,wanting to appear legally correct and not worrying so much about compassion and suffering. Seems a bishop would come down on the compassion side...
It seems the Bishop would have agreed a little bit with the Pope...Goodness sakes I think the Pope will have plenty to say to him on the other side.
This bishop is not only weak, he is a Quisling, IMHO. He didn't even bother to send a priest to give Terri Last Rites. That office was done by others.
Thus the Bishop acquiesces to murder. What's the news?
The bishop (or BINO) was weaseling! The visit to the tsunami area was so urgent it took him three months to go?
This disturbs me no end. I can't say more. I'm trying to return to the church, but this is making it more difficult. I don't think I could in good conscience attend a mass in that diocese.
Gee, what compromising unsavoriness accounts for such odd behavior and words from a Roman Catholic bishop???
Yeah, right. But if it weren't for the money, that other stuff wouldn't matter. /cynicism
the darkness in Pinellas county doesn't stop there.
Maybe we gals need our own "posting rule" like the guys have for Ann Coulter. Any mention of Mel Gibson requires a posting of a picture.
Good for me to suggest, anyway, since I don't know how to do that!
So...WHAT do they have on this guy? What on earth could explain such a lapse of judgment and taste???
Likely guess - the cult knows he is homosexual and is blackmailing him. Audit his travel records.
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