Posted on 01/19/2005 12:19:00 PM PST by sionnsar
My wife noted a brief entry yesterday from one of the webloggers at The Corner at the National Review Online, referring to an article in Sunday’s edition of The Guardian, “Church ends taboo on mercy killing“. This article reported that Canon Professor Robin Gill, a “chief adviser” to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, had remarked that “people should not be prosecuted for helping dying relatives who are in pain end their lives.” The article also reported that Canon Gill, professor of modern theology at the University of Kent, had been sent by +Cantuar to give evidence to a parliamentary committee investigating Lord Joffe’s private members bill on assisted dying for the terminally ill (euthanasia).
The Telegraph filed a similar article in Sunday’s edition, reporting “A senior adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury has said that there is a ‘very strong compassionate case’ for mercy killing.”
The Guardian’s headline is simply irresponsible and incorrect, leading Ms Lopez to her remark posted at The Corner, “Have mercy on us: Anglicans lean toward euthanasia.”
According to Ekklesia, “A spokesman for the Church of England” distanced the Church from Professor Gill’s views, stating that his views “did not reflect those of anyone else in the church". To be sure, the Church of England has not announced a new official policy on euthanasia, and, as the CofE spokesman noted, the Church made a joint submission with the Roman Catholic bishops on the assisted dying bill, opposing the legalization of euthanasia.
[Note: Confessing Reader is a doctor, as you will see. --sionnsar]
(Excerpt) Read more at reader.classicalanglican.net ...
There is a movement of giving and receiving. At the beginning and at the end of life, receiving predominates over and even excludes giving. But the value of human life does not depend only upon its capacity to give. Love, agape, is the equal and unalterable regard for the value of other human beings, independent of their particular characteristics. It extends to the helpless and hopeless, to those who have no value in their own eyes and seemingly none for society. Such neighbor-love is costly and sacrificial. It is easily destroyed. In the giver it demands unlimited caring; in the recipient, absolute trust. The question must be asked whether the practice of voluntary euthanasia is consistent with the fostering of such care and trust.[Mark D. Roberts has written on Euthanasia in the Netherlands, apropos the Netherlands reference in the article. --sionnsar]
They are floating a trial balloon, with "plausible deniability."
I'm sorry, but it just gets worse and worse.
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