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I'm folding "crass political appeal to the religious rubes" under religion for that particular case. EDIT: Her parents obviously had different motivations tha
by jbooth 13y ago
I'm folding "crass political appeal to the religious rubes" under religion for that particular case.
EDIT: Her parents obviously had different motivations than religion. The 10,000,000 politicians and talking heads? Either religion or political exploitation related to religion.
- tsotha 13y agoHer husband was already in a relationship with another woman, who he wished to marry. His memory was the only source for her supposed wishes, and he was the one pushing to end her life. You don't have to be a religious fanatic to see a problem here.
- gohrt 13y agoDoes a coma preclude divorce?
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- VLM 13y agoWell, she's not going to sign the papers or get custody. Or if you have power of attorney to sign the papers there might be some conflict of interest. On obvious solution is to not get married again and just shack up. Its the more intelligent thing to do anyway.
- jbooth 13y agoSo we're not talking about the religious motivations of the bazillion people who never even met the woman anymore? We're attempting to impugn the husband's motives by implying he wanted her dead so he could date someone else? How does that even work, why would he need her dead?
- tsotha 13y agoI don't know anyone for whom it was about religion. And yeah, the husband had motives for wanting to get rid of her - both because he wanted to remarry and because of money. Is that why he did what he did? No idea. But in this case the parents should have been allowed to make the decision.
- jbooth 13y agoThe key phrase was "culture of life". For George W. Bush and the congressmen who passed the ridiculous legislation at the time, that was what it was all about. If you want to claim that that's an entirely secular political viewpoint, fine, go ahead.
- tsotha 13y agoYou've lowered the bar a bit there, don't you think? Now I have to claim it's an "entirely" secular political viewpoint? The reality is both sides of any political question are made up of different viewpoints. Sure, there were people on my side who were coming from a religious viewpoint. But there were also a lot of people who thought the husband's position is hopelessly compromised by his own interests, and since her parents were still alive they should have been allowed to take custody of their daughter. People on the left have this idea that religious conservatives somehow control the Republican party or set the agenda. It's a mistake to think that.
- jbooth 13y agoYou've actually changed my mind here. My original contention was that the only reason someone would care about a power-of-attorney dispute over someone they had never heard of and had been in a coma for 15 years was religious. You've proven me wrong and changed my mind, though -- apparently secular "go team" loyalty to party is enough on it's own, without sharing religious views or really any reason to care besides rooting for the home team.
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- jellicle 13y ago> Her parents obviously had different motivations than religion Actually, Schiavo's family were all extremely devout right-to-life Catholics. As should be obvious to even the casual observer, no, there wasn't anyone on the side of keeping the brain-dead vegetable plugged in except for people with particular religious views. Unfortunately there were a lot of such people in the U.S.
- jbooth 13y agoYeah, but it's their frickin daughter. I think we can give the two of them a pass for having a hard time letting go.