tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post117243505525881829..comments2024-03-30T00:09:27.602+13:00Comments on Not PC: Bigots ban bookPeter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-1172447288665511522007-02-26T12:48:00.000+13:002007-02-26T12:48:00.000+13:00Thanks for that very sad story, Brian. I sympathi...Thanks for that very sad story, Brian. I sympathise.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps readers might like to consider the humanity of politicians who would interpose themselves and their own will on other people's lives, especially on people who are in your mother's situation.<BR/><BR/>Politicians like Bill English, for example, who in speaking against Peter Brown's 'Death With Dignity Bill' had this to say:<BR/><BR/>"Well, pain is part of life, and watching it is part of our humanity."<BR/><BR/>Fewer more evil sentences have been uttered in that Parliament. Pain is part of life, and watching it is part of our humanity." What an unspeakably, unutterably foul reason to oppose someone wishing to end their own life with dignity -- "No!" says Bill; God says you must suffer! -- and how abhorrently Catholic.<BR/><BR/>Bill presumably spoke with the full knowledge of the views of 'Saint' Mother Teresa, who, in rejecting pain medication for her wards declared, "I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people" -- a view memorably summarised by <A HREF="http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/hitchens_16_4.html" REL="nofollow">Christopher Hitchens</A> as "the suffering of the poor is a beautiful thing that helps the world."<BR/><BR/>What a disgusting pair, but as Hitchens says, "To say it was unChristian unfortunately would not be true."<BR/><BR/>And people wonder why I oppose religious bigotry here at Not PC.Peter Cresswellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.com