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March 31, 2005
Requiem for Terri
Heaven opens its doors this day for a soul in flight from its diminished body, a life cut off from its fullness years ago and cut short today because she could not ask otherwise and those assigned to guard her in her weakness grew weary of her unnecessary presence.
We cannot celebrate her passing, for although Terri’s spirit is eternally alive without tubes or tethers and--no longer an object of pity or revulsion--in the embrace of God, we mourn for those who wanted more time with their damaged kin and for a nation that would not rise above legal arrogance to give life another day. We mourn in shame.
Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine
Posted by Jim at March 31, 2005 10:26 AM
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http://monkey.org/~ethan/2005_03_27_archive.html#111230138708904722
It's a sad day when an innocent's death must be celebrated as a victory by anybody. But when that innocent had previously expressed her wish to die in this circumstance, and the unholy monster of politically fundamentalist Christianity had lumbered in, spewing vitriol and lies and maligning Michael Schiavo, and the manifestly corrupt Tom DeLay has used the situation as a massive distraction from his own crimes, and hundreds of herd-animals with crosses are kneeling and praying and letting their kids get arrested for a bunch of other herd-animals with cameras and microphones?
Through the sheer, unyielding strength of our corporatist-right media, which can be critical of religious nutjobs abroad but, strangely, not at home, and through their 2004-derived political influence, they thought they could reject the rule of law in this country. We saw nothing less than an attempted mini-coup-d'etat in the last weeks, and the resilience and continued legitimacy of our judicial system, the last political institution largely unsullied by Christian fanaticism in this America, is a victory.
Their noses are bloodied. And they'll be back. But today is a day to celebrate.
RIP, Ms. Schiavo.
Posted by: ethan at March 31, 2005 05:58 PM
Ethan, please take two aspirin, get some sleep, and wake up as a human being.
It is not defeat for Christians, it is failure of American culture.
God help us.
Posted by: Jim Jewell at March 31, 2005 06:33 PM
Terri may be gone, but she shall never be forgotten! Thank you for your post and kind words.
GBYAY
Posted by: Rev John Telfer Brown at March 31, 2005 11:43 PM
Terri may be gone, but she shall never be forgotten! Thank you for your post and kind words.
GBYAY
Posted by: Rev John Telfer Brown at March 31, 2005 11:44 PM