I have stayed out of this fray until now (and I don’t claim to be “entering it” now, just wishing to say to the Religious Right and all of their absolute hypocrites who care nothng and do nothing for the mass of innocents dying over the past two years in Iraq, for the poor whose medical care is cut off and people like Delay won’t lift a finger to help, SHUT UP!

This has become SUCH a spectacle, and enrages me as to the absolute and unabashed hypocrisy it emenates. This series of comments and links on Christianity Today’s Weblog from Ted Olsen is absolutely despicable.

Weblog: Legal Efforts for Schiavo Are Finished – Christianity Today MagazineCompiled by Ted Olsen

One example:

And yet our country’s courts are supporting an adulterer to starve and dehydrate his wife to death while she lies helpless.

???? Terry’s system has been kept alive for 15 YEARS!! Her cerbral cortex is liquified. Michael (and I don’t pretend to know anything about him, but I do know that on the surface, the fact that he has a girlfriend and two children by her is certainly NOT evidence or justification for labelling him “adulterer”, unless you want to join the Taliban and help them develop stricter , inhumane, more ridiculous restrictions on their moral purity laws.

How many among these right wing hypocrites would “hold out” for 15 years while doctors have given every indication that she has no cognitive ability left? I do not fault her parents , either. It is entirely understandable that they do not want to give up hop, even after all this time. But it seems that a sane society would also understand this, as well as the needs of a man who spent all 100,000 dollars of the malpractice suit on the medical bills, clearly not being willing to pull the plug at an earlier time (or was he? Does anybody know the answer to that? I would be willing to venture out and say, “well……No…….But it’s a great scandal story, right? NO? Well……….becuase we said so!” Such is the debacle. Such are the millions of unanswered questions (and the Bible is the most inconspicuously silent on this one…..for all the clarity these “Right to life” people seem to have, they have nothing to stand on, and it calls into question their own “definition” of life if they think that Life itself and Biological/Medical measurements and standards trump the quality of life. I’m not talking here about Richard Dreyfus’ character in “Whose Life Is it Anyway” who was certainly conscious and quite intelligent and creative, but whose zest for life had, however questionable it was to say that he should give up, been taken from him; at least so he said. But we’re not even there. No where close. 15 YEARS Folks! HOw long did Michael himself hold out hope when this all first occurred? If he held out for 1 year, I would have applauded him. I don’t know all the particulars. But you know what? I don’t need to. I can simply see the political opportunists here. And their own glaring hypocrisy….GLARING. Bush and his pals are seeking to cap medical malpractice suits, which have paid for keeping Terri alive, and reduce Medicaid, also which would limit the funds that Terri had available and HAVE BEEN USED.

Right to life introuduces questions of Quality of Life. Who would want to be kept alive in a vegetative state? 15 YEARS people! Just SHUT the HELL UP! It’s not your business!

The case of Delay NOT rasing holy hell, in fact not lifting one of his opportunist-dripping fingers while a 6 month old was allowed to die for lack of funds, aganst the pleas of his mother, makes this all the more sickening.

By now most people who read liberal blogs are aware that George W. Bush signed a law in Texas that expressly gave hospitals the right to remove life support if the patient could not pay and there was no hope of revival, regardless of the patient’s family’s wishes. It is called the Texas Futile Care Law. Under this law, a baby was removed from life support against his mother’s wishes in Texas just this week. A 68 year old man was given a temporary reprieve by the Texas courts just yesterday.

So, Mr. Delay, can you explain that ethical system of yours that leads you to say “Mrs. Schiavo’s life is not slipping away – it is being violently wrenched from her body in an act of medical terrorism” but not go to the mat to save a 6 month old boy in your own state whose mother wanted to *choose life*?

“Blind Guides! Hypocrites all!”
—Jesus , to the hypocritical, snactiomonious religious leaders of his day

From Village Gate

So…, lets try and get this straight. It a good thing to be for “life” and “life issues.”
But, its also OK to cut funds from the budget that enable these same life issues to be implimented in the actually existing world. In fact, the very funds from the very federal budget that have been paying for Terri Shiavo’s care.

I have heard it said- I have said it myself- and I actually believe it to be true: Budgets are moral and spiritual documents. They reflect our highest values as a people. They reflect the area where those values gain traction in the life of our Nation.

I rest my case. Please, “Right to Life” . Open your eyes to life.