What an absolute horror story. I pray that Mr. Hayes does not allow this experience to break his spirit, although I feel certain that it is being sorely tested.
Sadly, I had a friend who lost his faith when the funding was suddenly pulled from his facility to treat teenage runaways. It is a very tragic tale, and I hesitate to recite it here in detail, but he was a person who had been dedicated to saving people from the most horrible fates - including masochistic prostitution in clubs for sadistic homosexuals -and the sense of abandonment by God was too keen for him to sustain.
Of course, it was human beings who made the decision, but he looked past them to the hand of God, just as he had when human beings earlier made the determination to establish the funding.
You can read more about the homeless facility that is being displaced here. What is particularly shameful is that Mr. Hayes seems to have put some thought into the design of the village; even if they find another site and start up again, they will have lost that aspect of community. (Not that the domes are my cup of tea, mind you -- they look like giant Dogloos. But what do I know? My knowledge of efficient affordable construction techniques would fit on the point of a nail.)
Right, Tlaloc. The religious right doesn't care because this story got SO MUCH publicity. We were all watching and waiting for the plug to be pulled, JUST LIKE WITH TERRI SCHIAVO.
Mr. T, if you are so far gone as to think that the compassion of right-to-life advocates is limited by considerations of race or income, you are even more seriously mistaken than usual.
Yeah, the other theory is -- NOBODY KNEW ABOUT IT. Pretty good theory. The Schiavo family would have been in the same boat publicity-wise, but they savvily got talk radio hosts on board with their streaming video on the web.
The poor lady in Houston didn't have anybody doing that for her.
I think it is criminally nasty that you really seem to believe what you have said so far about this.
You don't get it. Sadly, I don't think you will get it. I don't like this story. I think it is wrong. I think you would get the same reaction from any other pro-lifer. Slate reported the death after the fact. There was no advance notice.
At this point you are basically spewing venom in your continuous effort to make hypocrites of those who hold values different from your own, which may make you the ultimate values imperialist.
I'm not in denial because I actually KNOW some of the people in the community you would call the religious right. And they ain't what you say they are, buddy.
One other thing that is interesting is that you are fond of complaining that someone is off-thread or off-topic when the discussion ranges away from what your perceive as the core issue. However, in this post, which was about discrimination against a black republican, you hijacked the comments to discuss an end-of-life case that nobody ever heard of.
Now look at this case which is infinitely more open and closed. The woman didn't want to die and she was killed. FOR BEING POOR.
Where were the liberals in all of this? If she wanted to die, I would expect them not to be there - but since she didn't, then you guys would be 'on the hook' too.
What an absolute horror story. I pray that Mr. Hayes does not allow this experience to break his spirit, although I feel certain that it is being sorely tested.
ReplyDeleteSadly, I had a friend who lost his faith when the funding was suddenly pulled from his facility to treat teenage runaways. It is a very tragic tale, and I hesitate to recite it here in detail, but he was a person who had been dedicated to saving people from the most horrible fates - including masochistic prostitution in clubs for sadistic homosexuals -and the sense of abandonment by God was too keen for him to sustain.
Of course, it was human beings who made the decision, but he looked past them to the hand of God, just as he had when human beings earlier made the determination to establish the funding.
You can read more about the homeless facility that is being displaced here. What is particularly shameful is that Mr. Hayes seems to have put some thought into the design of the village; even if they find another site and start up again, they will have lost that aspect of community. (Not that the domes are my cup of tea, mind you -- they look like giant Dogloos. But what do I know? My knowledge of efficient affordable construction techniques would fit on the point of a nail.)
ReplyDeleteGuess we'll wait and see, T.
ReplyDeleteRight, Tlaloc. The religious right doesn't care because this story got SO MUCH publicity. We were all watching and waiting for the plug to be pulled, JUST LIKE WITH TERRI SCHIAVO.
ReplyDeleteMr. T, if you are so far gone as to think that the compassion of right-to-life advocates is limited by considerations of race or income, you are even more seriously mistaken than usual.
Yeah, the other theory is -- NOBODY KNEW ABOUT IT. Pretty good theory. The Schiavo family would have been in the same boat publicity-wise, but they savvily got talk radio hosts on board with their streaming video on the web.
ReplyDeleteThe poor lady in Houston didn't have anybody doing that for her.
I think it is criminally nasty that you really seem to believe what you have said so far about this.
You don't get it. Sadly, I don't think you will get it. I don't like this story. I think it is wrong. I think you would get the same reaction from any other pro-lifer. Slate reported the death after the fact. There was no advance notice.
ReplyDeleteAt this point you are basically spewing venom in your continuous effort to make hypocrites of those who hold values different from your own, which may make you the ultimate values imperialist.
I'm not in denial because I actually KNOW some of the people in the community you would call the religious right. And they ain't what you say they are, buddy.
One other thing that is interesting is that you are fond of complaining that someone is off-thread or off-topic when the discussion ranges away from what your perceive as the core issue. However, in this post, which was about discrimination against a black republican, you hijacked the comments to discuss an end-of-life case that nobody ever heard of.
ReplyDeleteNow look at this case which is infinitely more open and closed. The woman didn't want to die and she was killed. FOR BEING POOR.
ReplyDeleteWhere were the liberals in all of this? If she wanted to die, I would expect them not to be there - but since she didn't, then you guys would be 'on the hook' too.