Eastwood and Schiavo

The article begins with:

"Euthanasia is enjoying its greatest renaissance in the Western world since Nazi Germany. Together with so many other social ideas first popularized in modern times by Nazis and Communists from abortion to easy divorce, euthanasia's time may have come."

He is right, and the Nazis used the media to spread their propaganda, just as those in favor of these ideas do today. That media includes tv news, newspapers, magazines, docudramas, and mainstream movies. And just as many bought the garbage... er, enlightened thinking... then, they do today, also.

Joseph A. D’Agostino is the author of the article, which continues:

Doctors in the Netherlands are euthanizing disabled infants even without parental consent, and Britain's Labour government may be about to legalize widespread euthanasia there. Our own state of Oregon has a physician-assisted suicide law. Hollywood's elite, ever on the cutting edge of evil, gave its implicit imprimatur to exterminating the unfit to live by granting Academy Awards the other day to two movies that feature euthanasia, Million Dollar Baby and The Sea Inside.

He goes on to discuss today's real life drama playing itself out in Florida involving disabled Terri Schindler Schiavo and her .... husband. (He gave up the right to that role when he had his first adulterous relationship, but especially when he began to co-habitate with Jody for the past ten years, resulting in two children so far.)

....and if Michael Schiavo gets HIS wish, he will be allowed to murder his wife with court approval.

D’Agostino ends his article with a reminder to Michael from St John Chrysostom:

As for Mr. Schiavo, we remind him of the words of St. John Chrysostom. In a commentary on Ephesians, after discussing St. Paul's injunction that wives must obey their spouses, he admonished husbands, "Thou hast seen the measure of obedience, hear also the measure of love. Wouldest thou have thy wife obedient unto thee, as the Church is to Christ? Take then thyself the same provident care for her, as Christ takes for the Church. Even if it shall be needful for thee to give thy life for her, and to be cut into pieces ten thousand times, and to endure and undergo any suffering whatever, refuse it not. Though thou shouldest undergo all this, yet wilt thou not, no, not even then, have done anything like Christ."

It's bad enough when a man kills another man, especially when he's vulnerable. A few decades ago, a man deliberately killing a suffering woman would not have been celebrated in life or in fiction. Except in Nazi Germany.

Amen, Mr Joseph A. D’Agostino! Amen!

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."
Thomas Jefferson

"Right is right, even if no one is right. Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is wrong."
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen