The hypocrisy is mind-boggling

The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, says that Terri Schiavo has been condemned to "an atrocious death."

First, we should be clear that when you have no functioning brain, you do not feel any pain from having food and water withheld. That is a simple scientific fact that is being routinely ignored by the Vatican, the ersatz president of the United States, Congress, the vile Randall Terry, Mel Gibson, Patricia Heaton, and the thousands of right-wing religious idiots who are protesting the "execution."

But there is another issue with regard to the Vatican. What about the condemnation of millions of third world women who have been told by Rome that any form of birth control is a sin? What about the all of the condemned women and children resulting from high church officials telling Catholics that condoms do not prevent transmission of the AIDS virus? What about the stunning silence of the Church on the horrific practices of factory farming?

How dare the Vatican call Schiavo's death atrocious. How dare they call the courts executioners. Line up the dead bodies of women and children who have contracted HIV, or who have died of poverty, and see where the trail leads.