{"id":30613,"date":"2015-10-05T16:57:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T22:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=30613"},"modified":"2015-10-06T15:42:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T21:42:20","slug":"gov-jerry-brown-forgot-the-first-rule-dont-kill-innocent-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/10\/gov-jerry-brown-forgot-the-first-rule-dont-kill-innocent-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov Jerry Brown Forgot the First Rule: Don’t Kill Innocent People!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Governor Jerry Brown jumped off the cliff and into the volcano of mass murder today.<\/p>\n

He signed a law that opens the door for euthanasia in California. The harm he has done will live long after him. That\u2019s the way it is with bad laws, and this law is a warrant to kill.<\/p>\n

I wrote about this for the National Catholic Register.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s part of what I said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Los Angeles Times story\u00a0<\/a>is so over-the-top supportive that it was downright soppy.<\/p>\n

It paints a word picture of a politician on the rack, a \u201cformer Jesuit seminary student\u201d who was riven by a heart-wrenching moral conundrum. I could almost hear the violins playing and see the sunset \u2026 except for the raw truth of what this politician\/martyr had done.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have considered the theological and religious perspectives that any deliberate shortening of one\u2019s life is sinful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Nice phrase that; \u201cdeliberate shortening of a life.\u201d Not only did this politician ply all his political arts to evoke sympathy for himself as he did the unthinkable, he created a new euphemism for the doing of it while he was at it.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeliberate shortening of life\u201d is Governor Jerry Brown\u2019s lovely little phrase for murdering people to put them out of our misery, otherwise known as euthanasia, also known as death with dignity, also known as cold-blooded killing. Governor Jerry Brown, that \u201cformer Jesuit seminarian,\u201d has joined the pantheon of politicians who, with a stroke of his pen, has killed untold numbers of people with a law that will allow the killing to go on for generations.<\/p>\n

Long after Governor Brown has finally retired for the last time and ridden off into the political sunset, people will continue to die because of what he did today. If past is prelude, this law, as bad as it is, will become the opening volley in the war on life by use of euthanasia in California. As bad as it is, future politicians will line up to the death wagon and amend it to make it worse.<\/p>\n

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Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/rhamilton\/california-gov.-jerry-brown-forgot-the-first-rule-dont-kill-innocent-people\/#ixzz3njjgMpXz<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Governor Jerry Brown jumped off the cliff and into the volcano of mass murder today. He signed a law that opens the door for euthanasia in California. The harm he has done will live long after him. That\u2019s the way it is with bad laws, and this law is a warrant to kill. 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