It was simply wrong. Jesse Jackson asked today if he could go in and pray over Terry Schiavo. I must side with Michael Schiavo at this point. Using some religious prestige to gain access onto TV stations and trying to make Michael look irreligious and disrespectful to a man of the cloth is just plain rude.
Jesse is not Terry's Overseer or Pastor. He is not her elder. He has probably never set foot in her congregation (if she even attended church). He has no spiritual authority in their lives whatsoever. Asking to go in and pray over her as if he were the Bishop of Rome is just simply pathetic. Who does he think he is anyway? So why stop at Jesse? Why should not some muslim cleric invite himself? Where does that kind of logic end?
There are plenty of other avenues that need to be exhausted. Trying to claim that he is the supreme spiritual American Bishop, who has spiritual authority over us, is not the way to go. Besides, why is the left waiting till day 13? Is it their lucky number?
A La Carte (April 23)
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