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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 02:25 AM
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Priest rips Sandra Day O'Connor over "dictatorship" speech
Poor Sandra. So concerned about her legacy. See, Sandra, what selecting this President did for your legacy? Nothing. Now that you did their dirty work, the right wing, especially the religious right, is chewing you up and spitting you out like yesterday's leftovers. How different you could have made it six years ago...

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To: National Desk

Contact: Jerry Horn, Priests for Life, 540-220-0095

WASHINGTON, Mar. 14 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, in a recent speech at Georgetown University, criticized the efforts of lawmakers last year to save the life of Terri Schiavo, and complained about harsh criticism of the courts. She even suggested the legal efforts constituted the beginnings of dictatorship.

In response, Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life and one who was at Terri Schiavo’s bedside in her final hours and moments, declared, “Justice O’Connor has it backwards. Dictatorships begin with the idea that government can deprive people of their fundamental rights. That’s what happened to Terri, who was neither terminally ill, nor comatose, nor on life support.” Fr. Pavone added, “When Supreme Court Justices get such fundamental points wrong, we’ve got a problem, and they deserve all the criticism we can muster.”

http://www.earnedmedia.org/pfl0314.htm
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 02:28 AM
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1. Gosh.. sounds like the priest is involved in politics!!
Shocking I tell ya... shocking! I'm sure he's tied all up with that creepy Jeb Bush.
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 02:28 AM
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2. He's a fool and no friend of mine,
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 02:29 AM
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3. We don't care what this guy thinks.
Collar or no collar, this self-promoting clown has no credibility.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 02:30 AM
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 02:33 AM
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5. Terri Schiavo was BRAIN DEAD. Stop ignoring that!
Edited on Wed Mar-15-06 02:33 AM by Selatius
She was already "dead" for all intents and purposes. The autopsy of her brain revealed that beyond any reasonable doubt. There was no life there to save anymore!
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 02:43 AM
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8. She Was a Republican Fundie. She Didn't Need a Brain.
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nini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 03:17 PM
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25. ROFLMAO
excellent!! :D

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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 02:35 AM
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Nutmegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 02:41 AM
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7. A year later and I'm still hearing about Terri Schiavo
Maybe that will be a campaign issue? :rofl:
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 02:43 AM
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9. Jesus Christ on a trailer hitch, I HOPE it will be a campaign issue!
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 02:46 AM
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10. Well, it's not like this guy is a credible source in comparison.
“Justice O’Connor has it backwards......That’s what happened to Terri, who was neither terminally ill, nor comatose, nor on life support.”

Once you say that, it no longer matters what you have to say, you are an idiot or a madman.

Let me also take the opportunity to slap O'Connor for something she deserves to be slapped for, allowing this fucking simian and his fascist puppeteers to gain control of the government.
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BR_Parkway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 06:17 AM
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16. Wow, if she had all that going, then taking away the life support should
have been just fine - sounds like she was ready to hop out of that bed and walk around any minute.

But Gawd killed her anyhow, wonder what she did wrong that He/She decided to smote her?
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 02:46 AM
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11. Christian Mafia
Is real and fascist ..and it's non denominational.

http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm
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flordehinojos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 03:11 AM
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12. i think this pavone guy was expelled from the priesthood some time ago,
Edited on Wed Mar-15-06 03:12 AM by flordehinojos
so he founded his own order without rome's blessings-- so ... without rome's blessings, he is really not a priest and neither is his order a sanctioned catholic order. they are just a bunch of crazed maniacs who are using religion as their instrument to spread their crazed ideas.

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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 03:19 AM
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13. "Priest in the Diocese of Amarillo"
http://www.priestsforlife.org/frpavonebio.html

Here it says he was a Vatican official...

http://www.priestsforlife.org/pressreleases/04-09-09ratz.htm

I can't find anything that we was defrocked, but you are right, he surely is crazed!
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flordehinojos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 08:19 AM
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20. i think i read something about his being defrocked a while back, when the
terri schiavo ordeal was going on...though, i can't recall where exactly it may have been that i read it.

but my memory is very hazy on this, as you can see.
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 08:25 AM
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21. The purpose of Fr Pavone's post in Amarillo....
Will be training priests to be full-time Anti-abortion advocates. He's been employed full-time in that movement for some time.

Aside from my feelings about his "cause"--I wonder how this development will actually help the Church. There's a shortage of priests, leaving many parishes understaffed. Now, even more priests will be directed away from actually becoming involved in the real lives of Catholics.

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stevietheman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 03:35 AM
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14. Ummm, numbnuts (to priest), Schiavo was essentially brain-dead.
And when the brain is dead, that means she was D-E-A-D. Not terminally ill, but D-E-A-D. Not comatose, but D-E-A-D. And she was being fed through tubes, jackass (to priest).

The body functions of an already dead person were shut down.

What doesn't this "priest" understand about this?
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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 06:15 AM
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15. priest needs to go back to policing perverts
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 06:22 AM
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17. Sandra, Sandra, Sandra...what the hell were you thinking in that...
ivory tower all that time :thumbsdown:
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 08:14 AM
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18. So, you take her off a feeding tube
and she dies . . . sounds like "life support" to me . . . since she could neither feed herself nor swallow food or water . . .
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izzybeans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 08:15 AM
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19. "izzybeans rips priest for being a sensationalist pig"
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Azathoth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 08:29 AM
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22. It's only a matter of time before Pavone climbs a tower and starts sniping
at pedestrians. I remember hearing some of his rants back during the Schiavo affair; he's more than a couple slices of cheese short of a sandwich. He seems to be the Catholic equivalent of Randall Terry.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 02:43 PM
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23. They are advocates for their cause
Edited on Wed Mar-15-06 02:48 PM by mmonk
but naive about the president trying to bring it about and are completely clueless about what is going on in America. I suggest sending them pictures from the war and the torture pictures. They give their email address.
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NYC Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 03:16 PM
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24. Oh geez, THIS guy is poking his head out again.
I remember his mug from last April, trying to get his face on camera all the time talking about Terri Schiavo.

For a priest, he sure likes the spotlight! Father, why don't you go back to praying huh?
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BurgherHoldtheLies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 03:21 PM
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26. Hey Father: You don't have to have a medical degree to read this image...


See all that black stuff in the middle? That is where a brain USED to be. It was filled with fluid.

She had the brain functioning of broccoli.
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