Posted on 06/05/2005 11:45:26 AM PDT by 8mmMauser
Will Republicans disown judge in Schiavo case?
Paul Hetrick, vice president of Focus on the Family, repeated an intellectually cowardly cliché of the religious right when he referred to "rogue judges" (Letters, "Goodman marriage column conveniently ignores reality," June 7) redefining marriage. "Rogues" are apparently those judges who make decisions contrary to the beliefs of Focus on the Family. If that's the case, Pinellas County (Fla.) Circuit Judge George Greer just earned "rogue" status in the eyes of the religious right.
Greer, a conservative Christian and longtime Republican, has recently been under armed guard protection. He received death threats for allowing Michael Schiavo to remove the feeding tube that kept his wife alive in a vegetative state for 15 years.
Greer, whose rulings were consistently upheld despite numerous appeals, said "all of the credible medical evidence this court has received over the last five years" suggested Terri Schiavo's behavior was not a product of cognitive awareness. Greer stood up to congressional attempts at invasion of privacy in the case, rejecting an effort led by House Republicans to subpoena Terri Schiavo as a means to force reinsertion of her feeding tube.
In legal circles, Greer is acclaimed for his consistent application of Florida law. Those less concerned with law and unwilling to accept "credible medical evidence" reacted differently. The FBI arrested a North Carolina man it said placed a $50,000 bounty on the head of a judge in the case, although officials didn't name the judge. The pastor of the Southern Baptist church that Greer belonged to for years asked him to leave the congregation.
Judge Greer's fellow Baptists excommunicated him from his church for doing his job with integrity. Will Republicans follow suit and excommunicate him from their party?
Richard Zimdars
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Friday, June 10, 2005
http://onlineathens.com/stories/061005/let_20050610006.shtml
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H.R. 235 - Houses of Worship Freedom of Speech Restoration Act
Looks like it's time to call our reps again & tell them to vote for free speech in churches.
I came across this background.
"From the founding of the country until 1954, churches and other nonprofit organizations were permitted to expressly endorse or oppose candidates for political office. That changed when Lyndon Baines Johnson ran for United States Senate. He was opposed by a nonprofit organization (not a church), and after he won the election, he proposed legislation to amend the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit nonprofit organizations, including churches, from endorsing or opposing political candidates. The Code was amended in 1954 without any debate regarding the impact of the bill."
excerpt from:
http://www.lc.org/resources/pastors...es_politics.htm
I couldn't figure out how to find out how my rep. voted on Rightmarch.
More on H.R. 235 - Houses of Worship Freedom of Speech Restoration Act
http://www.hr235.org/
Might be good to contact this guy and tell him to talk about the RINOs in FL on his radio show:
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/
I wonder if anybody has amnesia cop's name? it still might be worth putting some pressure on this individual to come forward with the truth.
I can't believe that they would have shot Terri's mother and father for trying to take her to a hospital. My God, that would make it like Nazi Germany.
Has anyone interviewed those police officers since then?
This was such a mess. So horribly tragic. Impeach Judge Greer!
I wonder what the prisoners think of Michael?
There was an article in Our Sunday Visitor, June 12, 2005 edition, about a man who was in a motorcycle accident and the doctors said that they were sure he was brain dead. If he ever woke up, the doctors said he would be in a vegetative state, & she should let her husband go.
She told the doctors that her husband was an organ donor, but if they gave up on him, and did not give him a surgery he needed for a crushed pelvis, no matter WHAT happens to him, you don't get his organs.
So they operated on him, even though the neurosurgeon responded: "There is no doubt in my mind that your husband is brain dead."
Dennis Lewinski is alive today. He speaks and thinks clearly. He is blind and uses a wheelchair to get around - possibly because of the delay in the surgery.
But he and his family are happy that he is alive.
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That is just what it was like.
There are pictures floating around of a young man defiantly giving them the Nazi salute. He was arrested. All on the scene were aware you DON'T cross that line OR ELSE. They wouldn't have needed to shoot those attemting, they would have overpowered them instead. The cops were big, strong, determined and volunteers. It was truly like out of a movie and the cops were dressed in black, some in jackboots, and the SWAT wore insignia.
There is another picture floating around of the burly cops leading a little kid in handcuffs to the paddy wagon. The size contrast is incredible.
It was not the America I love that we witnessed there.
The after effects are already starting.
I've have taken a lot of heat from several FReepers already for daring to disagree with an assesssment of VDH but I urge you all to read the following and let us all know how you see things now.
It is the blood of Terri Schiavo that we will never be able to wash from our hands.
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Excellent read, powerful contrast. You hit the irony. Did you catch my earlier thread, "The End is Greer"? I hoped to sketch the monstrous clash of good and evil.
We had plenty of velveeta in Luzon, only way to fix mussels was with velveeta.
The family and attorneys must have it. I can imagine the cop saying to himself, "Hmmmm would I rather live or talk?" But the couple of nurses broke free, though. They are still ok. That is the tough thing. The cop may risk his life to bring out the truth, and then it is all smothered anyway and he is in a real bad situation with little if anything gained.
Give me a link please, I missed it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1384167/posts
Thank you for posting expatguy. I'll check out your link immediately.
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