Nat Hentoff on Terri Schiavo
Family, Life, and the Body March 18th, 2005I notice how many people assume that those fighting for Terri are just right wingers or Catholics and Evangelicals (by the way, where are the mainline Protestant voices, anyone?). Aside from the many disablity activists who are fighting for her life (ignored often by the media), there is another person who breaks the stereotypical mold even more: the Jewish, liberal, atheist, Village Voice author, and pro-lifer Nat Hentoff. I don’t agree with all says, of course, but he has written some excellent stuff on Terri Schiavo. I recommend the following articles:
Was Terri Schiavo Beaten in 1990?
It’s Not Only About Terri Schiavo
The Culture of Death
A Woman’s Life Vs. An Inept Press
We need to pray hard. It looks like the State is going to kill Terri.
March 21st, 2005 at 12:11 pm
Evangelicals -are- the protestants who still hold to orthodoxy. The “mainline protestants” aren’t. They are typically Deists at best, or even various forms of occultists. They did take control of the denomonational aparatus back in the 1930s, which is how they get to call themselves “mainline protestant”
March 23rd, 2005 at 7:29 am
A Liberal Perspective
And I just saw that there is, in fact, already a web page that does indeed contain a compilation of all four of the above-enumerated articles by Nat Hentoff. And it is at a blog too. Though, on the day of our last College Republicans meeting, which I m…