Shame on the court for killing this dignified woman...
Fortunately, we live in a secular society where each of us has a right to practice our own spiritual conviction no matter which persuasion those convictions might be...to include not practicing at all.
In the Terri Schaivo matter, a court decided that Ms. Schaivo's had told her husband that if she were ever in a state where she could not live with a certain amount of dignity, that she would prefer to not live at all. The husband was convincing enough in front of the court and also had the legal right to make decisions on Terri's behalf once the judge made the ruling.
Was the court's decision bad? That depends on your own viewpoint and perspectives regarding what happened in the Schaivo household and what was really said (or not said). But, as rare as these cases are and as much anguish and gray-area are involved in them, the consequences of forced adoption of religion (or, put another way, a prohibition on rejecting religion) would most certainly be far, far worse. History hath shown many perversion when the state and the church become one in the same.
Shame on the court for killing this dignified woman...
Nice PARTIAL recitation of history: after the court gave Terri’s adulterous husband rights to decide her treatment, the Florida legislature passed a law forbidding the kind of cruel starvation that Terri ended up enduring. And then the activist Florida Supreme Court narrowly—and quite wrongly—tossed the law out. Only then did it go to the Fed’s (courts and Congress), the part that is more famous in the history books.
People should not be starved!
