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To: AndrewC
Following the clear words of the Constitution is not a novel argument.

Fine, but "injunction" isn't one of those words. Even worse for you, the Constitution doesn't specify what "due process" is - it leaves it to Congress to define it, and frankly if they want to define "due process" as the dunking test to see if she floats, so be it. So how about, rather than finding injunctive relief emanating from some penumbra somewhere, we get Congress to do its damn job? You know, it's just crazy enough to work...

2,689 posted on 04/01/2005 1:39:28 AM PST by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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A Catholic priest has spoken on Fox News, stating that those who were involved in the feeding tube removal and Terri's subsequent passing were "murderers". As have many of the posters in FR.

It hs been my belief all along that these posters were following their Catholic beliefs, and that's understandable, within a Catholic framework.

However, we are a secular nation,as is FR, and, in the Schiavo case, the huge uproar from the Catholics stemmed from a "definitional" belief, that sustaining a life by means of a feeding tube was entirely different from other "life support" measures.

No religion takes precedence over any other, nor over the secular laws, rules, marital sanctions, et al. Under long-established procedures, removing a feeding tube from a PVS patient and allowing death to occur is moral and acceptable.

The Catholic "feeding tube" position could never prevail.
And they all knew it, but in utter frustration, they lashed out and accused everyone else of being "murderers".

In doing so, they have deliberately sinned, for they have BORNE FALSE WITNESS.

There is nothing in the Catholic religion that says non-Catholics must abide by Catholic rules. Therefore the secular people are not murderers in any way, shape, or form. That's just a Catholic outcry, and applies to no one but other Catholics.



2,690 posted on 04/01/2005 2:10:58 AM PST by Randy Papadoo (Not going so good? Just kick somebody's a$$. You'll feel a lot better!)
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To: general_re
Fine, but "injunction" isn't one of those words.

Well, de novo was clear enough to be mentioned by the Justice who did not do it. BTW if you do not have personal counsel in court proceedings and a judgement is made concerning you, has due process been achieved?

2,703 posted on 04/01/2005 6:29:03 AM PST by AndrewC (All these moments are tossed in lime, like trains in the rear.)
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