Enlightenment unto them, whose love of vanity has condemned an innocent lamb to death...either by deed, denial, dismissal, or distaste. Many said with revulsion, “Look at her!” Don’t they know that we are all beautiful in the eyes of the Creator? Did they not see the beauty of life heave as breath in the innocent lamb’s body? Did they not know that a heart beat there? Did they not feel the pain of her mother Mary as she cried “Mercy,” but she was barred from soothing the lips of her thirsty child with but a tear of water for comfort?

Search your hearts to answer how a being that was described as incapable of feeling pain is given morphine to deaden the pain as her body dies? What is this passionate, compassionless, compassion I’ve seen? A soul has to wonder, but a soul already knows.

At this Passover season and beyond, when the one called the “Holy Father,” and the Son of the king, and the Spirit of Mary’s first born child prepare to receive their blessings...let ALL introspect to discern which path they truly travel. Let your enlightenment be quick, for time is fluid. It may not support the length of your journey.

May the spirit of peace guide you.

Live life with no regrets,

For you, perhaps. But I'd suggest that a vast majority of the millions of bloggers do it for the same reason people paint paintings when they know no one will see them, or write poetry, when they know they'll never publish.

The joy is in the doing, not the reaction.

What's wrong with that?

Hey, keep it up, citizens of Jesusland! It's better to out yourselves as unthinking dumbasses now, so we can better prepare for dealing with you later.

The IHT piece though, at least the part I excerpt, is talking about the rule of law aspect of the issue. Grandstanding on an issue that normally has nothing to do with Congress is a different thing than exploring an issue that the public is interested in.

And that is different from what people accuse congress of doing in what way?

Seriously. I teach and study journalism for a living. I know *why* we are writing about the case. But the herd mentality makes it no less of an exploitation of the family's (michael and terri's parents) personal battles.

And I'm not saying that *every* blog that is writing about this is just surfing the wave of what's hot. But just like there are people who are willing to link to hottie names like lindsey lohan or cameron diaz or whoever the latest is, there are most likely people who are doing the same with Terri Schiavo.

Call it PVS p0rn, if you like.

I can see that these judges give more care to hard core criminals than law abbiding handicapped individuals.

Exploiting Terry Schiavo

James Joyner links an article from the International Herald Tribune entitled “Exploiting Terry Schiavo.&# [...]