The international spotlight caught David Gibbs III as lead attorney in the right-to-life trial involving Terri Schiavo, the 41-year-old brain-damaged woman whose case sparked public debate.
But Gibbs, who calls himself a "legal missionary," said Sunday in New Kensington that the link between law and the church started with the formation of the country.
Gibbs said U.S. laws were formed with the Bible as a guide, giving a standard of "absolute truth" to the legal system. He said the founders assumed most people knew and understood the Bible.
"We've reversed what the Founding Fathers had done," said Gibbs.
Schiavo case lawyer says U.S. law rooted in Bible
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HOUSTON -- If it had been up to her doctors, the Houston hospital where she was treated and the laws of the state of Texas, Kalilah Roberson-Reese would be dead by now.
Instead, the severely brain-damaged 29-year-old woman is being cared for in a Lubbock nursing home, where she's become a focal point in a growing struggle over a controversial Texas law that permits hospitals to withdraw life support from patients whose conditions they deem hopeless -- even if family members object.
Who gets to make decision on end of life?
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