Posted on 06/20/2020 5:57:55 PM PDT by marshmallow
'We are highly concerned with the lack of justice in the court system today,' said the society’s board chair Angelina Ireland.
DELTA, British Columbia, June 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A Canadian judge has blocked a hospice society from initiating a vote by membership on becoming a Christian society, which if adopted would have exempted it from the legal obligation to allow euthanasia — the killing of sick patients by lethal injection — onsite.
The Delta Hospice Society, which runs the 10-bed Irene Thomas Hospice, planned to launch the mail-in vote to its 1,500 members at a special meeting this Monday.
But British Columbia Supreme Court Judge Shelley Fitzpatrick ordered the meeting cancelled at the request of three pro-euthanasia ex-board members, the CBC reported.
“We are highly concerned with the lack of justice in the court system today,” the society’s board chair Angelina Ireland said in a statement to the B.C. Catholic.
“We are appealing,” the society’s lawyer Albertos Polizogopoulos told LifeSiteNews in an email.
Pro-euthanasia petitioner Chris Pettypiece told CBC the judge ruled June 12 that the society’s board acted in bad faith to manipulate the vote by rejecting membership applications.
Pettypiece said the judge ordered the board to provide a list of all members and all rejected applications to the petitioners, who also include former board chair Jim Levin and former hospice acting executive director Sharon Farrish.
But Ireland argued in an affidavit that the board rejected 310 membership applications and accepted others based on whether or not it could determine if an applicant would uphold the society’s constitution, in compliance with the Societies Act stipulation that members “must uphold the constitution and bylaws.”
She pointed out that the society would lose $11,500 in “lost sunk costs,” including the $8,500 it spent on printing and postage, if the.......
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Are they saying it’s illegal to become Christian in Canada now?
It’s a very slippery slope; once euthanasia is legalized suddenly a huge amount of cases appear.
Right To Die very quickly turns into Duty to Die.
Canada-who cares?
I definitely want the option when I’m old. I hate pain and I’ve seen some miserable prolonged deaths. Last thing I’d want. Not sure how you feel about pain. Some love it.
Do it anyway.
So the Canadian courts can tell you if you can become a Christian or not?
Then don’t go on hospice, that is your option.
Thanks for that link. I’m feeling so overwhelmed by the lies, anger, and hatred from the left that I was compelled to donate. They just cannot get enough death.
Of course there are a thousand ethical reasons to fight against euthanasia. But thousands of accounts from nurses and others who are bedside at natural death witness a supernatural transition for the dying. I’ve seen it a couple times myself. I don’t think we should alter that process. Of course God can make one second last for as long as needed for someone dying suddenly. Palliative hospice can bring treasures besides grief.
Bah. Pain reminds me I’m still alive and can feel. When pain stops, thus goes life.
Some “care takers” don’t give you a choice and administer the shot on their call or snuff out patients other ways.
Several have been busted murdering dozens.
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