And so the long Good Friday begins.
Gov. Jeb Bush is being compared to Pontius Pilate as he comes under intensive pressure from religious and pro-life groups to do whatever it takes to save Terri Schiavo's life.
A pro-life group called Crossroads agrees that Gov. Bush has done a great deal on Terri's behalf.
"But how will history remember him if Terri dies? Likely, as a weak, moral coward, who did not have the courage to save a helpless, dying woman from those who so vehemently wished to take her life," the group said in a press release.
Crossroads noted that nearly 2000 years ago this week, Pontius Pilate "stood by and did nothing in the face of determined evil as it took the life" of one innocent man."
Pilate simply lacked the moral courage that is occasionally demanded of one who governs, Crossroads said.
The group said Pilate was not filled with hate -- but in the end, he "chose not to risk his office to save the 'insignificant' [Christ]."
Crossroads said Bush must ask himself, "Is one helpless woman's life worth my political career?"
"And her mother, Mary, must suffer the contempt of those who are determined to see her child unjustly condemned to death. Now it is in the hands of the governor, the man who will ultimately choose either to wield the temporal powers of his office to save innocent life, or 'wash his hands' of her."
2 comments:
So are they saying that Jesus was basically braindead?...It is nice, though, to see the radical right go after one of it's own. Let the good times stagnate and waste away!
the long Good Friday? I liked that moveie, I don't like the remaking of it today.
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