I know that this may be getting old, but I don't care. I'm going to keep saying it, because it's a way to reach people in your local area. On to today's humble submission:
"My question is: What kind of man is he?" Tom DeLay, House majority leader from Texas, asks this about Michael Schiavo. Schiavo won a case in Florida state court to let his vegetative wife die over her parents' objections.
Now, the Republican Congress is passing a law to demolish state jurisdiction and put the case into federal court (so much for states' rights) in order to win political favor in their Florida constituency. Sun Hudson was born on Sept. 25, 2004, and lived until March 15, when his breathing tube was removed. Unlike Terri Schiavo, the decision to let him die was not his guardians'; it was his doctors'. Texas law permits physicians to remove life-sustaining treatment from patients when there is no hope of recovery from the condition requiring the treatment. Sun's parents couldn't pay to keep him alive, so he died. Also unlike Terri, Sun was conscious and not vegetative. He was, however, poor. This law was signed by then-Gov. George W. Bush, who is rushing back to Washington at this writing to sign the Schiavo bill.
My question, Mr. DeLay, is, what kind of man is he? For that matter, what kind of man are you?