Good and evil co-exists in the world. As much as people dislike speaking about evil, none the less it is a reality we can’t escape.  Evil minded people flew airplanes into the Twin towers. Evil ideas drove the young men who shot fellow students at Columbine.  Those are evils that we understand and don’t like. Though excuses are given for the foregoing behavior the excuses won’t explain the depravity of the actions.

Good is what people are supposed to do for and to each other. Paul said, “As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.” Galatians 6:10. The opposite of what is spoken here is that of evil and the message is do good not evil.

But men don’t heed the good words of scripture and begin to substitute their own ways for that of God and evil is the result shown in twisted and perverse behavior. For example, Jack Kevorkian is in prison for helping people die, called assisted suicide. Terri Schiavo  of  Florida is in danger of being killed because the courts have refused to stop her husband from removing her feeding tube.  Defenseless unborn babies are killed because the soon to be mother doesn’t want the child. It would be inconvenient for the child to be born.  We have thrown away objects for years when they are no longer useful and now we are  throwing away humans who may be a bother to us. In the case of the assisted suicide, the people made the choice to die. In the other two situations there is no choice for them. Again, all are being thrown away because they are in the way.

The twisted thinking is apparent. A man is in prison for helping to alleviate suffering for those who so chose (no approval of assisted suicide is implied here), but those who will let the woman in Florida die, and those who perform abortions, do so without penalty. Evil is punished in one case and allowed to occur in the other two. Have some people in our society become no better than the depraved of history?  Apparently they have. They are cultivating evil.

The government under the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States is charged with protecting living citizens and the future citizens called posterity. The government has every right to protect those from someone who helps with suicide and by the same token has the duty to protect the woman in Florida from dying and the unborn from abortion. Those who argue or rule differently are ignoring the Constitution and the Bible to the peril of everyone in a civil society.       

Judges routinely strike down laws against abortion and now have denied Mrs. Schiavo the right to life, allowing an argument that the governor of Florida has no right to try to keep her alive to prevail. Lies about abortion caused the Roe v Wade ruling to come about; lies in court about Terri Schiavo are going to cause her death if the lies stand. The lies have cultivated and spawned evil in both cases.

In a News Max article of January 25, “Schiavo’s Parents Plead for Her Life”  the ACLU weighed in on the matter; The American Civil Liberties Union, which had joined with Michael Schiavo in challenging the governor's action, said Monday's court sends an important message to the governor and legislature not to attempt to thwart judicial decisions because of public pressure.

"I think this terrible, tragic case has been used for larger political purposes," said Howard Simon, the ACLU's executive director in Florida. "That is the shameful history of this case."

Mr. Simon, the shameful history of this case is that the courts playing god are allowing this travesty to occur. It isn’t shameful to protect lives of the innocent, but it is shamefully evil to engage in lies and chicanery that cause death and to be a party to such events.   

©  07/22/2011   

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