[the OlLine Rebel]

But then, as another poster indicated, it is not "her" right to force her family to go along w/her wishes when it is against their beliefs and feelings. (Esp. since we have absolutely no proof it WAS her wish!)

[malakhi]

it is not "her" right to force her family to go along w/her wishes when it is against their beliefs and feelings.

What a ridiculous argument. An adult does not need permission from his family to exercise his legal rights.

[Trinity_Tx]

Now, see? It always comes out... and it is *exactly* the attitude I see here and from them that I'm talking about:

"it is not "her" right to force her family to go along w/her wishes when it is against their beliefs and feelings."


That is such absolute... nerve... it makes it hard for me to breathe.

They have no right to step in and impose their "beliefs and feelings" on others' most profound personal decisions.

I'll just quote CS Lewis, and avoid further comment.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
-C. S. Lewis

[unbalanced but fair]

it is not "her" right to force her family to go along w/her wishes...

That is an appalling statement! Is this what you truly believe? The individual's rights must give way to others' beliefs? So then her family has the right to force their beliefs on her? Perhaps this is at the heart of all this disagreement. It is a very revealing statement.