The May 2010 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Newsletter can now be found at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/Newsletters/Newsletter108(May2010)(RGB).pdf Bill C-384 was soundly defeated by a vote of 228 to 59. Check how the Members of Parliament voted at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/HowTheyVoted.pdf On June 5, 2010, we are co-hosting the US/Canda Push-Back Seminar at the Radisson Gateway Hotel at the Seattle/Tacoma Airport. The overwhelming defeat of Bill C-384 proved that we can Push-Back the euthanasia lobby in the US and Canada and convince people that euthanasia and assisted suicide are a dangerous public policy. Register for the Seminar at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/2010SeminarFlyer(RGB)(LetterFormat).pdf The Schindler family are being attacked by a Florida television station and Michael Schiavo. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is standing in solidarity with the Schindler family. My blog comments: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2010/05/att
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
"Increasingly, anti-life and anti-family rules are being imposed on people of faith.
ReplyDeleteOur "right to choose" — our right to choose to practice the faith we profess — a right guaranteed by the First Amendment — seems to mean little or nothing to many who wield power."
Until I hear of one Catholic being forced to have an abortion, forced to use contraception or forced in engage in a same sex marriage in this country against their will, then I will regulate this argument to the category of formulating a strawman.
Instead we can all think of situations that within our lifetimes, all abortions were banned, contraception was illegal (even for married non Cathiolics) and gays had no right to marry.
While I would not presume to impose my morality (or lack thereof because for this bishop I lack the wisdom to have morality since I am an atheist) I would ask that this Catholic bishop not impose his morality on me or people of faith but not belonging to his denomination.