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.
I was quite young, but I do remember that Kennedy's religion was used as a scare tactic, and that I didn't understand why. I still don't.
ReplyDeleteMy best friend at the time was Catholic, and she was okay, so what was the big deal? Among the two of us and our parents and siblings and friends, we none of us ever figured out why being Catholic would disqualify anyone from doing something. So we dropped the subject and refused to return to it. We had the evidence of our own experiences, and we all just decided that the scare tactics were so much garbage.
I think that was my first brush with bigotry. And having worked out for myself that it was a load of crap, I've never let myself get suckered by it. No one's religion or ethnicity or culture is the sole defining feature of their character. And those who claim otherwise need to be brought up short.