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Originally Posted by pan6467
The whole thing about Bush and the GOP staying silent is why was it ok to interfere and make Schiavo's case national and yet they stay silent on this....... it's just hypocritical and approval by silence in my opinion.
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I guess the difference is that Schiavo's case was in the courts for something on the order of 10 YEARS!
By the way, even though I vehemently disagreed with the Schiavo case's ultimate outcome -- but let's not start debating that case again! -- I do agree with Xepherys's opinion that the Federal Government really had little right to interfere with the multiple lower courts' rulings on the matter. It was the Supreme Court's right & duty to rule on the case, should they find enough legal reasons to do so. They didn't, so end of game. Ultimately I don't have to agree with every court ruling...but if I don't agree with enough of them, it's time to vote for a change in those who would make laws and/or start a grass-roots effort to change the laws through referendum.
I'm not saying that a decision that affects this child's upbringing should languish for ten years. I'm just saying that, as in the Schiavo case, it's not the Executive Branch of the Federal Government's place to interfere. Even if they did before, two wrongs don't make a right. Let the court rulings stay their course, and I'm confident this will be overturned.