Terri's Day Announced - March 31 - Groups Call for Special Remembrances of Terri Schiavo

LifeSiteNews ^ | 12/10/07 | LifeSiteNews

[wagglebee]

NEW YORK, December 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation and Priests for Life have jointly announced the establishment of the "International Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Terri Schindler Schiavo, and All of Our Vulnerable Brothers and Sisters" ("Terri's Day"), to be observed each year on March 31, the date of Terri's death.

The purpose of the day, the groups explained, is to foster education, prayer, and activism regarding discrimination against the disabled, and advocacy for people in situations similar to what Terri and her family faced.

Fr. Frank Pavone said, "Those of us who were with Terri will never forget her life and her death. For the sake of all the vulnerable, it is critically important that those who never knew Terri likewise remember the lessons that God taught us through her."

Suzanne Vitadamo, Terri's sister, adds, "No family should ever have to witness what my family witnessed, watching a loved one slowly dehydrate to death. We want Terri's day to remind us all that persons with disabilities are never burdens and should be treated with nothing but our unconditional love and compassion."

In the early weeks of 2008, educational and prayer materials will be released that can be used by parishes, disability and pro-life groups and all communities to observe Terri's Day.

See Terri's Fight and Priests for Life websites:

http://www.terrisfight.org/

http://www.priestsforlife.org/

[floriduh voter]

Joe Lieberman was FOR TERRI. John McCain is consistently opposed to what were Terri's rights. I have misplaced Lieberman's phone number since the 2000 election when I faxed him daily until Gore gave up.

Joe should talk to McCain about Terri but I still have a major problem with McCain re: illegal immigration. McCain is soft on terrorists and on illegal aliens. That's bad.

[floriduh voter]

Huckabee’s son hung a dog from a tree. This is disturbing. I just don’t trust Huckabee.

[8mmMauser]

Fred and Terri tar baby dailies...

No way will the LA Times let this go! I can only do a short excerpt, but the whole article is pithy, or some word like that.

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As often seems to happen in the public chaos of major political campaigns, it turns out there's much more to that apparent Fred Thompson memory loss story from a couple of weeks ago.

You may remember that the closely watched newest Republican candidate was asked about that highly controversial Terri Schiavo right-to-die case in which the husband of a Florida woman in a persistent vegetative state wanted to remove her chemical feeding tube, but her parents went to court and then politicians from Gov. Jeb Bush and Congress got into the struggle two years ago...................

Turns out, Thompson knew about Schiavo only too well

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[8mmMauser]

Fred and Terri tar baby dailies 2...

Twice in one day from LA Times!

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Fred Thompson didn't exactly assuage questions about his attention to detail when he seemed out of the loop late last month when his top communications director was let go.

Then, during a trip this month to all-important Florida, he appeared at sea when asked to comment on the Terri Schiavo end-of-life case that had so consumed first the state and then the nation. "That's going back in history," he said. "I don't remember the details of it."

Question on Tennessee trips up Fred Thompson

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[8mmMauser]

The Online Journal which touts itself to be uncensored and accurate in the liberal lexicon scribbles this piece on Huckabee and religion. The author would hate, I am sure, religion if he even knew what it was or understood it. That is still a long time off. Maybe one day the lights will turn on...

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Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee caused quite a hullabaloo with his statements about AIDS, homosexuals and morality. His candidacy is wonderfully illuminating as to why we shouldn’t elect anyone who is openly religious. It also sheds light on the bigger picture as to how Christian fanatics are actually control freaks and how their power grab is destroying democracy.

It’s clear that Christian religious fanatics want their way in regards to religion and public life. They are determined to impose their views on all Americans. They constantly cry that they are the victims of discrimination when in fact they are the relentless discriminators.

Fundamentalist Christians, including Huckabee, want American tax dollars used to fund private religious schools. Is there any similar request coming from Jews, Muslims or Wiccans?

They want laws passed to keep gays from marrying. Are gays trying to pass any laws that infringe on a Christian’s personal life or rights?

They want abortion made illegal and don’t believe that it’s a private matter to be discussed by a pregnant woman and her doctor.

They want to be a part of people’s life and death decisions in matters like the Terri Schiavo case.

They are opposed to stem-cell research while thousands continue to suffer and die from Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other diseases. Of course, their views are subject to change if they have to live with one of these diseases. Ask Nancy Reagan.

They want department store employees to say “Merry Christmas” to everyone. No big deal but is my Christmas tree going to shine brighter because the clerk at Mervyn’s said “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays”?

They want to see their religious symbols in our courthouses and on our public squares. They cry about the lack of these symbols and act as if the ACLU is depriving them from observing Christmas when, in fact, they have every right to sing Silent Night in their homes and on their rooftops.

They are constantly boycotting someone for making a movie, publishing a book or presenting a program that offends their religious sensibility.

They want our public schools to add prayer to the curriculum along with the Bible taught as science. Yes, Christianity is the majority religion in the United States but not in the world. And since the subject is “how the world was created,” wouldn’t it make as much sense to teach kids what the majority of the world’s religious inhabitants believe?

Let’s presume that fundamentalist Christians actually read the Bible. Why then do they unvaryingly ignore this quote attributed to Jesus Christ in Chapter 6 of the Book of Matthew: “When you pray, go away by yourself, all alone, and shut the door behind you and pray secretly.” Perhaps they’ve found contradictory quotes that make it so important to get very public prayer into public schools. But if there are contradictory quotes would that not point to the distinct possibility that flawed humans have handed down a flawed book that is not necessarily the “literal” word of God? I know -- that’s another subject.

Huckabee needs to be the poster child for why political judgment should not be clouded by religious beliefs. As governor of Arkansas, Huckabee at the urging of his minister released a rapist named Wayne DuMond from prison on the grounds that the rapist was sentenced too harshly and had subsequently accepted Jesus and was, therefore, reformed of his criminal tendencies. DuMond’s release stemmed from Huckabee’s personal belief that Jesus can heal anyone. Within 11 months of his release, Dumond molested and killed a mother of three in Missouri.

Huckabee should be the poster child for keeping religion out of politics

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[8mmMauser]

It comes from the JBSers, a much maligned group whom I found through association made much good sense over the decades.

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In 1995, while battling a house fire, Don Herbert was trapped under a pile of debris when the roof collapsed. In a coma by the time he reached the hospital, he regained consciousness but slipped back into a coma-like state a few months later. He spent the next ten years in a nursing home, receiving nourishment through a feeding tube and apparently in a vegetative state. Blinded in the accident, he couldn't see, but his wife and four sons included him in all family events and celebrations just the same....................

Brain Injured “Minimally Conscious” are Awakening

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[8mmMauser]

How about this guy?

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It didn’t take long for Ron Klein to get noticed.

Like an underdog quarterback, the Florida Democrat pulled off a big win last year over Republican Rep. Clay Shaw, a steady, 26-year House incumbent — leaving many voters and observers drained, as if they had just left a close, gut-wrenching football game.

“The district was clearly ready for a change,” said Klein, whose constituents range from millionaires in Palm Beach and retirees in Boca Raton to factory workers in Fort Lauderdale. “They were tired of Terri Schiavo, of gay marriage. They were concerned about jobs, health care, energy, Iraq.”

Old-fashioned hard work helps freshman get ahead

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[8mmMauser]

Ah, Canada, when may it turn over a new maple leaf on this? Thread by wagglebee...

TORONTO, December 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - With the Morgentaler acquittal on Jan. 28, 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada eliminated Section 251 of the Criminal Code, because it was not equally applied across the country, thus removing all protection for unborn babies. The court also stated that it was within the purview of Parliament to enact new abortion legislation, if it so desired, providing that it met the criteria of the court.

Today, in Canada, any pregnant woman could legally have her unborn child aborted for any reason or for no particular reason, at any time during the pregnancy, right up to delivery.............

Abortion a legal, moral battlefield

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[don-o]

Can you post the poem you wrote as Terri was dying?

[8mmMauser]

Mitt Romney takes a firm stand on pro-life issues, at least mostly or at least a lot, or at least some. Thread by wagglebee.

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Mitt Romney participated in a weekend interview with Tim Russert of the NBC program "Meet the Press" and he restated, has he has countless times before, why he changed his position on abortion. Romney also reiterated his position allowing researchers to destroy human embryos from fertility clinics for scientific studies.

Mitt Romney Restates Abortion Change, Allowing Some Embryonic Research

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[8mmMauser]

Pro life pro file...

Thread by wagglebee...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll on the topic of abortion finds that the attitude Americans have on the controversial political issue is moving in the pro-life direction. The Washington Post /ABC news survey find a six percent shift in public opinion towards the pro-life direction in the last six months..................

Abortion Poll Finds Americans' Attitudes Moving in Pro-Life Direction

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[Dante3]

Rudy stands out as the one strong dissenter on this topic.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Lana Jacobs of the Catholic Workr was also arrested trying to take water to Terri. There's a pictue of her HERE.

[floriduh voter]

Some people who were arrested were just on the sidewalk and they got scooped up in the moment. Either way, part of America died with Terri.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"Either way, part of America died with Terri."

I absolutely agree. And I think Lana Jacobs knew she would be arresed. She just wanted to make it so visually and obviously clear: if you try to give a drink of water to an innocent Florida woman dying of thirst, you will be stopped by the police.

[8mmMauser]

I don't hear the thud. Maybe it is because I don't see how I fit into a box labeled social con or such. I tend to think the thought of saving a life of an innocent was an ordinary emotion or ordinary decent people, and not limited to a radical and clearly defined faction. Anyway, this is how it reads in Pajamas Media...

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That thud you just heard is the sound of the conservative coalition that elected Republican majorities to Congress cracking up and hitting the floor.

The higher the poll numbers for former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee rise, the lower the spirits of some conservatives who see the advent of the socially conservative Baptist minister as a disaster in the making for the party.

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This then is the battleground and conservatives are starting to choose up sides. Christians are getting mad at libertarian conservatives who can’t stomach Huckabee’s sly appeals to religiosity – an anathema anyway to those who think that the receive too much prominence in Republican politics as it is. These same Christians see what many refer to as the Goldwater “Leave me the hell alone” wing of the party as being terribly condescending toward evangelicals, manipulating their vote every two years in order to rack up majority after majority in Congress while electing twice.

The schism first became noticeable during the imbroglio over Terri Schiavo, the severely brain damaged Florida woman whose husband went to court in order to get permission to remove her feeding tube. Schiavo’s parents objected, pleading to keep their daughter alive.

Social conservatives threw themselves into the defense of Schiavo’s right to life with a passion. They were opposed with equal passion by the libertarians who believed the case to be a private, family matter. Before the dust settled, the two sides – libertarians and social cons – were staring across a great divide that only now is revealing itself to be unbridgeable. And the rise of Huckabee has, if anything, only widened the gap.

The Huckaboom Means a Conservabust

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[8mmMauser]

I don't hear the thud. Maybe it is because I don't see how I fit into a box labeled social con or such. I tend to think the thought of saving a life of an innocent was an ordinary emotion or ordinary decent people, and not limited to a radical and clearly defined faction. Anyway, this is how it reads in Pajamas Media...

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That thud you just heard is the sound of the conservative coalition that elected Republican majorities to Congress cracking up and hitting the floor.

The higher the poll numbers for former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee rise, the lower the spirits of some conservatives who see the advent of the socially conservative Baptist minister as a disaster in the making for the party.

~Snip~

This then is the battleground and conservatives are starting to choose up sides. Christians are getting mad at libertarian conservatives who can’t stomach Huckabee’s sly appeals to religiosity – an anathema anyway to those who think that the receive too much prominence in Republican politics as it is. These same Christians see what many refer to as the Goldwater “Leave me the hell alone” wing of the party as being terribly condescending toward evangelicals, manipulating their vote every two years in order to rack up majority after majority in Congress while electing twice.

The schism first became noticeable during the imbroglio over Terri Schiavo, the severely brain damaged Florida woman whose husband went to court in order to get permission to remove her feeding tube. Schiavo’s parents objected, pleading to keep their daughter alive.

Social conservatives threw themselves into the defense of Schiavo’s right to life with a passion. They were opposed with equal passion by the libertarians who believed the case to be a private, family matter. Before the dust settled, the two sides – libertarians and social cons – were staring across a great divide that only now is revealing itself to be unbridgeable. And the rise of Huckabee has, if anything, only widened the gap.

The Huckaboom Means a Conservabust

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[8mmMauser]

Christmas special on posts, two for the price of one...

[8mmMauser]

Wagglebee has a thread on the case of Alveda King who puts the lie to the leftists who hijack decency for their own ends...

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San Francisco, CA (LifeNews.com) -- The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will lead an estimated 20,000 people along San Francisco’s waterfront in the fourth annual West Coast Walk for Life. The event is a western equivalent to the national March for Life in Washington and it gives participants a chance to show how abortion hurts women.

King's father was slain civil rights activist A.D. King, and their home in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed during the civil rights struggles.

This year's event takes place on Saturday, January 19 and Clenard Childress, another African-American pro-life leader and Gianna Jessen, who survived a failed saline solution abortion, will speak as well.

“If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life,” Alveda King said in a statement provided to LifeNews.com. “The greatest injustice we face is the denial of the right to life. Without life, no other rights exist.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Niece Will Headline West Coast Pro-Life Walk

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[napscoordinator]

Do you think the new movie Juno is a pro-life movie too? I read a little on it and it seems to be.