Family Law Reform: The Necessary Result of the Schiavo Debacle

You can blame the people fighting for Terri, or you can use this case as an opportunity for needed reform.

Note: These comments are edited from an email exchange with several theologians.

by Rod D. Martin
March 29, 2005

I told a friend at some length today that I am getting very sick of Christians who never bother to show the sort of passion against those fighting them that they reserve for those fighting alongside them. Jeb Bush, for instance, has been personally involved in fighting the Schiavo case -- by every means at his disposal -- for years: years, I might add, before the average online loudmouth ever heard Terri Schiavo's name. A few days ago, NewsMax was hailing Jeb as the "unsung hero" of this whole thing. They neither know this nor care.

Within hours, "our" gang was decrying Jeb as a murderer. I daresay, if Michael Peroutka ("presidential candidate" for the Constitution Party) wants the Governor to go to jail so badly for Terri Schiavo's sake, he ought to be willing to prove it by kidnapping her himself and standing personally in defiance of that same court order Bush faces. He won'…