Terri Schiavo & the Christian Right

Is it just me or does anyone from the Christian Right in the U.S. actually have a job? The amount of effort they're putting into trying to save this poor woman from continuing to live her miserable "existence" is astounding. Granted, the polls show they are only a vocal minority in the U.S. (which apparently hasn't gone completely mad as I'd feared after last November). It would be one thing if she were completely paralyzed and still had higher brain function, but the scans show a complete atrophy of her cerebral tissue (which has been replaced with cerebro-spinal fluid), with only basic autonomic brain functions remaining. Who in their right mind would want to live that way? It's just plain SELFISH on the part of her parents to want to keep her alive in order to feed their deluded sense of hope. I hope both she and her parents can find peace soon.

What astounds me even more is the U.S. and Florida governments thinking they have the right to fiddle with in the private and excruciatingly difficult decisions made between a husband and wife! That's not exactly what I call the Republican ideal of "small government".

I'm especially vexed by the amount of effort they (government = Christian Right) put into saving the life of someone who's already half-dead in the name of "the sanctity of life" when they put an equal amount of energy into making the life of gays and lesbians a living hell. Their war cry is "God decides when we're born, and He decides when we die!". George Bush apparently has an exemption from this rule, as he sends thousands of soldiers off to an untimely demise and condemns hundreds of thousands of civilians to needless deaths.

Instead of focusing their energy on the half-dead and the unborn, why don't these idiots open their eyes and see the real suffering of the living, breathing human beings around them (much of which they are directly responsible for!).