Is his concubine afraid? Quite possibly. Found this: http://hyscience.typepad.com/hyscience/2005/02/michael_schiavo_1.html

cited at the Catholic Conservation website.

Best,

-John-

God help us when people who think like our Morning Edition lover run the country...wait, as far as the fate of Terri is concerned, they do. Too complex to fit into the framework of good and evil? Only for those too morally obtuse to know the difference. It is never wrong to identify evil as evil; in fact, it is our obligation.

John Sallmon

We shut off Morning Edition today because it was so not getting it. There are none so blind as those who will not see.
BTW, the Florida electoral people, the ones who track campaign contributions, show a donation from Felos to Greer's campaign. I guess it is legal to give money to the judge adjuticating your very complex legal case, and none dare call it bribery.
Erik - you know where my husband works. This situation has been extremely tough on him and I would appreciate your offering some prayers on his behalf.
I wish I could say Happy Easter. This whole thing has cast an incredible pall over us.

Eik - are the comments working OK?

Let me get this straight.

We're supposed to transcend the binary good/evil moral framework and get to . . .

Morning Edition?

Ah, yes, we seem to have a professional hand-wringer here!

It is too complex! Beyond Good and Evil! So Simplistic! Variety of Faith Traditions!

You, my friend, are Nietsche Lite. You want to be the Ubermensch without the Mensch. I heard the Morning Edition piece, too, and was blown away by how utterly simplistic the various clergy were being (and how utterly awful they were being chirping away like it is nothing more than a little lifeboat ethics problem for their classes).

It is good to keep an open mind, sure, but don't keep it so open that your brain falls out.

Huh?

Why am I not surprised?

This comment thing is broken. It won't take a name, and it won't take a response.

This situation, and many others that don't make the media, are much too complex to evaluate using a binary good/evil moral framework. There was an interesting piece on Morning Edition today that asked clergy from a variety of faiths to weigh in on this issue. There are viable responses, grounded in scripture and theological ethics, to this situation that avoid ugly, closed-minded responses to a tragic situation like that of the original post here.

Huh?

Cheap shot? Michael's outlook on life is proving very expensive for Terri.

I did not catch your name, anonymous poster?

Which would make that poster's comment a cheap shot ... of course.

Nasty is when you kill your wife by starvation.

A cheap shot is when you spend money that was supposed to go on caring for her on hiring attorneys like the miserable George Felos to try to kill her.

Furthermore, the whole notion of "cheap shot" implies that it is all some sort of game. Sort of like not kicking a man when he is down. Perhaps you play games like that, but I don't. If a man needs kicking, when he is down is the best time to kick him.

The notion of "cheap shot" makes me think that you must be some sort of Englischer, or a pacifist, or perhaps something worse.

Also, I am sorry, but I did not catch your name, anonymous poster? Too gutless?

Nasty and a cheap shot.