Oh..the Hypocrisy...

Much as we'd all like to avoid it, it's impossible to get by any news outlet today without a mention of poor Terri Schiavo.

The hypocrisy just goes on and on...the "culture of life", right-wing wacko wing has cowtowed everyone into keeping this poor woman alive, probably against her own wishes. Can you imagine if the woman was gay? They'd all be running away so fast it would curl your hair. Can you imagine if she was a healthy, but imprisoned, woman...say, like Carla Faye Tucker? (You'll recall then-Gov. Bush would not stay her execution.) Can you imagine if she was even black...or indigent?

The only people on the "right to life" side who actually are not hypocrites are the Catholic Church. Over the weekend, there was a report that they would be working against capital punishment...in their view, a life is a life -- no matter who it is. I have to at least give them that.

From yesterday's Boston Globe:

"The Roman Catholic bishops of the United States plan tomorrow to launch what they are calling a major campaign to end the use of the death penalty.

The bishops, according to an aide, have been emboldened by two recent Supreme Court decisions limiting executions, and by polling that they say shows a dramatic increase in opposition to capital punishment among Catholic Americans.

Their campaign, which is to be announced by Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick at a news conference in Washington, is to include legislative action, legal advocacy, educational work, and a new website to be named www.ccedp.org, for the Catholic Campaign to End the Use of the Death Penalty."

Oh, and by the way, if I'm ever in a persistent, vegetative state...would someone please pull the plug? I would hate to be pasted all over the national media or to have those right-wing nutjobs harass my family.