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Posted on 02/26/2007 4:10:34 PM PST by wagglebee
I know it's easy for me to say this, since I don't work in a Catholic nursing home, but...It's looking like it's time for some of us Christians to be perp walked. A line needs to be drawn.
If a guy was being whacked by the mafia, a person who knowingly transported him to a certain spot so the actual murderer could shoot him in the head would be accused of conspiracy to murder. So, if the Catholics think that assisted suicide is as bad as murder, how is it consistent with freedom of religion to force them to be co-conspirators?
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I'm wondering if by the time I'm ready to retire a law will be passed "permitting" (i.e. "requiring") unemployed people to be killed.
Indeed they did. In Massachusetts, the Church had to close down its adoption agencies because they would not exempt them from adopting out to homosexuals. The Church could have kept their agencies open if they didn't rely on government funding I believe, but the Church unfortunately did rely on it to stay open. The same thing is also occuring over in the UK. Over there, the Catholic Church accounts for about 30% of adoption agencies. However, they also recieve government funding to stay open. When the law was passed that adoption agencies had to adopt to homosexuals, the Catholic Church asked for an exemption, but it was not granted. I think they have vowed to stay open and simply deny children to homosexual couples. We'll see how long that lasts.
Now, it appears that government is trying to do the same thing with assisted suicide in California. The Church probably will not be exempted due to government funding. What I can't figure out is, if people disagree with the Church's policies regarding adoption or nursing homes, then why don't they go somewhere else as opposed to going to the Church and then complaining?
All in all, assisted suicide is simply sad, and it's all part of the slippery slope of the Culture of Death.
it's better to rule in Heaven than to serve in Hell... with apologies to Dante.
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