As Terri Schiavo inches ever closer to her death and her family tries to end the madness, some who feel that life must always be protected are issuing death threats to the judges who have presided over her case.
Death threats have been made against him for allowing Michael Schiavo to remove the feeding tube that has kept his 41-year-old wife alive for the past 15 years, and the Southern Baptist church that Greer belonged to for years has asked him to leave the congregation.
Once again, the inability of some people to understand even their own religion, let alone the religious beliefs of anyone else, astounds me. It's like they read one or two pages of the bible and figured that was all they needed to know.
And they didn't even read that page all that closely.
Clearly they didn't read this page, wherein, it is written..
"You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man's presence, for the judgment is God's.
Props are due to Judge Greer for standing up to the crazies, even though it means he is now under police guard and had to quit his church. You're better off without them, Judge. Thank you for doing your job.
Also, Terri's family deserves our respect and admiration for their general composure throughout their public crisis. While those who claim to speak for them have been vicious, they as a rule have not, and now they are making it very clear that the protesters who are disturbing their last moments with their daughter do not speak for them.
"We are not going to solve the problem today by getting arrested," he told the restless crowd of about three dozen people. "We can change laws, but we are not going to change them today. ... You are not speaking for our family.'"
