ABC News: Congress Announces Deal in Schiavo Case
Ya gotta hand it to the FEBACs™, they sure are consistent.
You see, it’s absolutely vital that we protect marriage from the queer onslaught, because marriage is a sacred vow between a man and a woman. The bond between husband and wife is sacrosanct, the very bedrock of our society. Government must protect and respect traditional marriage, because the connection between husband and wife is the most intimate and vital relationship we have. Marriage is a cleaving of husband unto wife in the eyes of God, and government must ensure that activist judges don’t interfere in the traditional family.
Unless of course a husband is certain his brain-dead wife would want to die in peace rather than be maintained by machines. Then it’s the government’s job to interfere.
Congressional leaders announced a compromise between Senate and House Republicans that would allow the brain-damaged woman’s case to be reviewed by federal courts that could restore her feeding tube.
President Bush changed his schedule to return to Washington from his Texas ranch on Sunday to be on hand to sign the legislation.
Even though the case has been reviewed by 19 different judges in 6 different courts; even though every independent doctor is certain she will remain in a persistent vegetative state for the rest of her life; even though her husband tried everything to bring her back over eight years and has cleared every legal test for the next seven, watching a cruel husk of his wife deteriorate in a hospital bed; it doesn’t matter. Bush and his right-wing anti-abortion wackaloons know what’s best for Terri Schiavo better than her husband.
Marriage is sacred my ass.
And don’t think for a minute that this has nothing to do with Schiavo and everything to do with the anti-abortion movement. Why, all the stars are in attendance:
Randall Terry, an anti-abortion activist who is acting as a Schindler family spokesman, described the parents as “hopeful” that the congressional compromise would succeed. He said the parents also were concerned about the tight security in their daughter’s room, which includes a police officer standing guard.
“They are so determined to kill her that they don’t want mom or dad to even put an ice chip in her mouth,” Terry said.
Because that would be breaking the law and disobeying the direct order of the courts, you misogynist prick. Randall Terry, where have we heard that name before?
Oh, yes, he’s the rabid anti-abortionist in charge of Operation Rescue. You know, the group that illegally blocks women from getting into abortion clinics, that pickets and harasses doctors, and has ties to abortion clinic bombings and the murder of abortion doctors. You know, Christian stuff. He might not have an agenda, ya think:
Some Other Choice Randall Terry Quotes
“I don’t think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like and if you have babies, you have babies.”
“Our goal is a Christian Nation… we have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country. We don’t want equal time. We don’t want Pluralism. We want theocracy. Theocracy means God rules.”
“”When I, or people like me, are running the country, you’d [abortion doctors and clinic volunteers] better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we will execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed…”
Yes, no birth control, Christian Theocracy, and executions for OB/GYNs. And if the Lord thy God chooses to melt your cerebral cortex into a viscous goo, well, that’s just part of His plan, and you better just buck up and live like a Muppet for the rest of your existence. God wants you to suffer, except I guess it’s not really suffering if you have no higher brain functions, now, is it? Hey, who else is out there?
Four people, including right wing leader James Gordon “Bo” Gritz, were arrested on misdemeanor trespassing charges when they attempted to bring Schiavo bread and water, which she would be unable to consume.
Well, it ain’t a wingnut party until Bo Gritz shows up. You remember Bo, right? He’s our little Christian Identity (read: Aryan Supremecist) who brought so much fun to my home state of Idaho during the Ruby Ridge standoff and from his attempts in 1994 to build another White Christian Homeland in Central Idaho. Fun guy. Here’s just one of his brilliant oratories:
“I can assure you that if I was ever convinced that it was God’s Will for me to commit an act of violence against the laws of our land, I would hesitate only long enough to, like Gideon, be certain. I would then do all within my power to accomplish what I felt he required of me. …If God does call me into the Phinehas Priesthood* …my defense will be the truth as inspired by the Messiah.”
*Particularly radical far-right activists sometimes call themselves Phinehas (or Phineas) Priests to denote that they oppose, and will use violence against, those not committed to the superiority and “purity” of the white race. Phineas was a Biblical character who killed a Jew because of the Jew’s sexual relations with a gentile. Those who call themselves Phineas Priests are usually Identity adherents; the idea derives from the sect’s theological race-hatred and was first articulated by veteran Identity exponent Richard Kelly Hoskins.
It makes you wonder how involved Bo would be in this case if it were a 41-year-old black woman in that hospital, huh? Wow, it’s like the Oscars of Wingnuttery! Everyone’s here! There’s got to be some more fun celebrities. Oh, wait, there she is, one from my very own hometown, one whose family I went to school with:
“A woman is being starved to death, and I have to do something,” said Brandi Swindell, 28, from Boise, Idaho. “There are just certain things that you have to do, that you have to try.”
And as she protested at Michael Schiavo’s house: “I really feel that Michael Schiavo is turning his back on his wife,” said protestor Brandi Swindell. “Men, and specifically husbands, are called to be providers and protectors of the women that are important in their life, and especially their wives. And so we [view] this as the ultimate form of domestic abuse.”
Ah, Brandi, you’re a fine girl, what a good wife you will be… unless your husband asks you to remove his life-support if he becomes a tube-fed vegetable! Yes, Brandi, carrying out your wife’s final wish makes you a super-wife-beater. Brilliant logic.
Brandi’s one of the rising stars in the anti-abortion game. She’s an activist from Boise with Generation Life, and is beloved by the wingnuts for being a young, single, fresh face in the anti-abortion game. Back in my hometown, she’s one of the ones fighting to put the Ten Commandments in Boise city parks. Before that she was up in arms about groups providing condoms to the athletes at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Lately she was out protesting the Liam Neeson movie “Kinsey”, about the life of sexual research pioneer Alfred Kinsey. Here’s one of her choice quotes:
“Alfred Kinsey is responsible in part for my generation being forced to deal face-to-face with the devastating consequences of sexually transmitted diseases, pornography and abortion.”
Yes, girls were so much better off when they were ignorant of STDs. Best to not deal with those issues. And regarding the Olympic condoms:
“I thought it was absolutely appalling that the Salt Lake Organizing committee, in the name of public safety, would push condoms on the athletes,” said 25-year-old Brandi Swindell, leader of Generation Life, a Boise, Idaho-based pro-life group.
“We all know that condoms are not safe. We have had the safe sex campaign for the past 25 years and what is the result?” she asked. “This is very, very serious; the International Olympic Committee is playing Russian roulette with people’s lives,” Swindell noted.
“Recreational sex is not an Olympic sport,” Swindell said emphatically. “We just think these athletes have a once in a lifetime chance to showcase their talents. There is no reason that the IOC needs to go out and get condoms for them. The Olympics are not some type of frat party with condoms being passed around.”
Never one to let facts get in the way, Brandi missed out on this:
Regarding the 12,000 condoms donated by Cardinal Health, committee spokeswoman Vania Grandi said the condoms will be available for free inside clinics at the 10 competition sites and the athletes’ village, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
“We’re not distributing them,” she said. “They’re available like aspirin, Tylenol and bandages. It’s good public health policy.”
Hmm, sounds like a good idea to me, considering how Kinsey made all those youngsters deal face-to-face with sexually transmitted diseases.
And odd, isn’t it, how our pro-life crusaders are in Florida fighting to interfere with the sacred trust between a man and his wife, on the same day as the 2nd anniversary of the Iraq War. How many living, breathing, walking, talking, thinking, feeling Iraqis have been been obliterated by cluster bombs and mortar rounds and gunfire in the past two years while they’ve been worked up over the final wishes of a brainless machine-fed golum of a person? I guess life is sacred, unless it speaks Farsi or Arabic.
Let’s finish up with that paragon of ethics, Tom DeLay (Republican from Texas, where they hold life to be so sacred that they execute more people than any other state and until recently even liked to fry teenagers and the mentally retarded):
“We should investigate every avenue before we take the life of a living human being,” said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. “That’s the very least we can do for her.”
Yes, every avenue, unless that living human being is a death row inmate and every avenue includes a walk down DNA Evidence Has Exonerated Many Innocent Men on Death Row Street or Serious Mistakes In The Trial and Appeal Process May Have Denied A Competant Defense Boulevard or Statistics Show the Death Penalty to be Inherantly Racist, Fraught With Errors, Incredibly Expensive, and Have No Effect On Violent Crime Parkway. Yup, we have to have a Culture of Life, so we protect every little “womb baby” unless it grows up to be a killer and a judge that we trust says it should die. But if nineteen separate judges decide that a woman would have wanted to die, we can’t trust ’em.
I hate these people. I really do. Get your God and your Government out of people’s personal family matters!
