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Posted on 03/27/2005 6:45:08 PM PST by tutstar
After much hard work that has gone on for well over a year, it's been a week and 2 days since Terri has been without food and hydration.
Many asking the question how we could have become such a callous society as to deny a helpless human the basic necessity of food and water.
Terri's plight has brought to light many problems in the judicial system and opened our eyes to the fact that some laws need to be changed.
The work will continue to protect helpless individuals from suffering the same injustice as Terri.
I think a part of what we are seeing is that the GOP doesn't have a strong, moral and courageous leader to guide them... and they haven't for some time now (since Reagan), unfortunately.
Another part is that many who believe themselves to be "conservative" are too young to remember the Reagan precidency. They don't remember what Ronald Reagan was. They don't remember the core values and principles that Reagan stood for.
I never truly felt old until I realized how far we've fallen since Reagan and how long ago his presidency was.
God help us that we might return to that.
Scoop 1 wrote:
New at The Empire Journal
http://www.theempirejournal.com/329051_independent_medical_exami.htm
Thank you so much for another article on the Terri Schiavo case. We are all so grateful to you for all your hard work and dedication!!!
They can kill the body, they cannot touch the soul.
I haven’t been on all morning, so I’ll be scanning back a few pages to catch up a bit. I’ve been in much prayer and agony for this poor distressed family. I’ve given thought to the direction I should go from here. In the past I’ve really pushed hard for our leaders and political parties to take action. I’m wondering if God is showing us through this situation a more clear focus - to look to Him more than ever. Perhaps God is telling us to direct our energy and our pleadings more in His direction. I know everyone is doing this already and praying fervently.
And I appreciate all of you who are down there now, but for me personally, due to health problems, I must move more towards quiet and fervent prayer beseeching God with my whole heart. We each do what we can do as God gives us. We cry out to God.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].
The twenty-first century has dawned on a day in which “conservative” advocates of the “pro-life” movement have resigned themselves to the fact that abortion is “the law of the land” and must be enforced by government servants, that America “is not ready” to end abortion, and that their position is somehow different from “moderate”
liberals who personally find child murder distasteful and so wish to make it “affordable, safe, and rare”.
Let us not predict that the stentorian proclamations from the pen of Mr. Buckley added to the chorus of bloodthirsty compassionates lobbying for the accelerated demise of Mrs. Schiavo are the last or the ultimate outrage to be perpetrated by the treacherously fickle partisans of the un-right.
None would have thought thirty-five years ago that Catholics would be marching in the streets shrieking loudly that mothers should have government funding to murder their babies, that a Catholic bishop would apologize for not allowing a funeral Mass for a sodomite drug-user whose business was to provide a venue for sodomy and drug use under the guise of “entertainment”, or that another Catholic bishop would make repeated public statements that a right exists for family members to starve a “loved one” to death. It is dangerous to assume the worst is about to happen, and equally perilous to assume that the worst has already happened.
Hard experience demonstrates that men but loosely clinging to a sense of virtue, truth, and sanctity will eventually embrace thoroughly foul positions, astonishing in their repudiation of what had till then been considered absolute verities rejected by none but the depraved.
But, nicmarlo, it is none but the depraved with whom we are dealing here.
Hey now! So, you are going to reward the trolls by giving them what they want? Say it isn't so!
Just ignore them. And, yes, you can.
I never thought that I'd ever end up on the same side of any issue as the Rev...Jesse Jackson.
For all the world to see, a 41-year-old woman, who has committed no crime, will die of dehydration and starvation in the longest public execution in American history.
She is not brain-dead or comatose, and breathes naturally on her own. Although brain-damaged, she is not in a persistent vegetative state, according to an increasing number of radiologists and neurologists.
Among many other violations of her due process rights, Terri Schiavo has never been allowed by the primary judge in her case—Florida Circuit Judge George Greer, whose conclusions have been robotically upheld by all the courts above him—to have her own lawyer represent her. (Read On)
Freepertwo said: “Don't look to men now for the answers, look to God.”
I agree. We’ve all been grieving seeing this family’s pain and suffering and we must look to God for it is He who can intervene.
Thank you for posting that.....very comforting.
Agreed; and with depravity, as well. It disgusts me to see this in my own country....the place which used to be "The Light on the Hill." There are only candles being held up high in the valleys now; that light on the hill has gone out.....
That one is spooky!
The family spokesman on FOX now saying there are a few state senators who have indicated they are willing to change their votes on that defeated bill. Is there a sliver of hope here?
This is what I've been sensing also, SeasideSparrow. In Him alone is our hope. May God receive all the glory!
Lord Jesus, if this is your deliverance, we ask for all expedience. Please hang onto Terri, keep her organs healthy, Oh Lord, and feed her and give her drink. In JESUS name! For your glory, Oh Lord God.
It's ok to disagree. It's not ok to call names as if this were a playground. I'm reminded of my children, when they were younger, misbehaving while I'm on the phone. It's the same kind of behaviour. Because of some posters protected status, they'll be allowed to continue the taunting and name calling. I expect better behaviour. Apparently, even though this is a pro life, pro God forum, it's not going to get better. I've given up.
I love Ronald Reagan. Have all his books. Love the man.
But you know, he didn't do anything after the bombing of our marines in Beruit. I don't know that he would have done more than Bush has in this case.
He says JJ has been on the phone all afternoon and they seem to have enough votes (that is my understanding) to pass this law to save Terri."
Oh Lord, may it be so. IN JESUS' NAME.
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