My guess is the latter. The impending killing of Terri Schiavo has become a cause célèbre among the liberal elites (because of their worship of abortion) and other assorted death lovers. You've got people out there who throw babies in dumpsters or down toilets, mothers who slaughter their born children and people defending and celebrating them as some kind of heroes. Terri Schiavo may be just the latest victim of the culture of death that this country has embraced, but the sheeple will pay it no mind because they have become inured to it, exactly as those in ancient Rome who cheered the deaths of thousands in the games of the proconsuls, or the German populace who turned a blind eye to the slaughter of millions at the altar of death and "racial purity".
Well you had the courage to elaborate on what I have long privately thought. As another poster just noted, John Adams had it right when he said the U.S. Constitution was suited only for a public of believers.