18 Replies to “Slippery Slope, Schlippery Slope”

  2. I don’t assume Belgium or other member states wouldn’t have done this on their own, but “harmonization” of laws and regulations is sacred to the Eurocrats, so yes, it’s part of why people who have lived under the EU regime for a while now want out.

  3. Make no mistake, that’s coming soon to Canada. Heaven help you if you are a physician who dares object to “doctor assisted dying” in this country, because the state surely will not.

  5. This is EXACTLY the same thing as suing cake-bakers for following their own personal Christian beliefs. Sorry, but this IS a WAR on Christians ! Hint: to all you leftists who intend to use Izlam as an antidote to the Christians you HATE … you are NOT going to enjoy Sharia Law.

  6. “The civil court in Louvain ruled that “the nursing home did not have the right to refuse euthanasia on the grounds of conscientious objection.”
    Notice how the universal declaration doesn’t talk freedom of religion in the workplace.
    There’s your slippery slope. Basically you have to go out of business to avoid religious conflict. Another example is pastors turning in their commissioners of marriage license to avoid being forced to conduct or punished for refusing to conduct a gay wedding. This is not some flight of fancy as the articles clearly demonstrates. Christians take these issues very seriously; but, it’s not about telling others what to do or think, but a matter of personal conscience.
    My pastor told us, within the context of our aging society and upcoming legislation, now is the time to decide how we feel about euthanasia because our religious teachings forbid it. He said we better get our heads around that idea now rather than during a crisis and clearly communicate our wishes to family and physician. Christians are doctrinally prohibited from taking their own life or participating in that exercise.
    So it begins. If a religious institution such as this nursing home wishes to protect their religious rights, then they should make it clear they will not countenance euthanasia, legal or otherwise, within their walls, and will make provision patients be moved to another home for doctor assisted suicide, ensuring that is made clear to all future intakes.
    Yeah, probably that would be against somebody else’s “rights,” perhaps a third party, but at least try.
    Sometimes freedom of religion can be very expensive. Nobody said it would be cheap or easy.

  7. But… but… people said this would never happen!
    Shamrock, the Church and Catholic institutions have made their feelings very clear on certain subjects. No one listens. In fact, they’re called the bad guys. These institutions will be phased out.
    Tell me that is not a plan in action.

  8. This topic gets so emotional and steeped in “group-think” on this site, but I will risk the verbal abuse to offer up a differing opinion…
    “Secularists these days generally give a fig about religious freedom, reducing it to a mere freedom of worship (if that).”
    What utter hypocrisy.
    It surely doesn’t appear that the Catholic nursing home gave a fig about this woman’s religious freedom. They have denied this woman meeting her creator on her terms, based on her personal faith, instead forcing her to follow THEIR beliefs. We can only assume she chose a Catholic nursing home because she is Catholic, but that in no way absolutely defines her personal beliefs. I can tell you from first-hand experience that this major religion offers no “freedom of religion” within it’s flock. As a matter of fact, the groups that cry loudest for “freedom of religion” are usually the ones who deny that very freedom to their own. Islam and the promotion of Sharia Law in the west immediately come to mind.
    I hear a lot of Faithful with the rallying cry “freedom of religion”, but just like “freedom of speech”, most only really seem to support that sentiment for others that believe the same thing as they do. Also, not enough Faithful seem to realize that freedom of religion ALSO means freedom from religion.
    Finally, is it really so immoral to accept the wish of a dying human being to receive at least the same compassion and freedom from suffering we would offer a dog?

  9. Sorry … you cannot choose freely to become a Boy Scout … and then object to the Boy Scout oath. Join the Power Rangers instead … or start your own damn religion by finding some silver plates in the woods, and then translate those plates to include polygamy, and then lose the plates … and then move your followers to the Utah desert.
    You have plenty of options without screwing with Catholic doctrine

  10. They just don’t wear those cool swag Hugo Boss uniforms; but Belgium was nevertheless invaded by the ‘new and improved’ National Socialists.
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North’

  11. “I can tell you from first-hand experience that this major religion offers no “freedom of religion” within it’s flock. As a matter of fact, the groups that cry loudest for “freedom of religion” are usually the ones who deny that very freedom to their own.”
    It’s their club, they make the rules. Don’t like the rules? Get out of the club.
    Want to die? Take an ambulance trip to a secular hospital. They will be happy to gank you soon after arrival.
    I am not a Catholic, but I support their right to make their own rules.

  12. “It surely doesn’t appear that the Catholic nursing home gave a fig about this woman’s religious freedom. They have denied this woman meeting her creator on her terms, based on her personal faith, instead forcing her to follow THEIR beliefs. We can only assume she chose a Catholic nursing home because she is Catholic, but that in no way absolutely defines her personal beliefs.”
    That’s the most dissembling nonsense I’ve read in a long time. Did you hurt yourself by stretching so much?

  13. One last thing. Catholic graveyards are consecrated ground.
    Catholics don’t allow suicides to be buried in consecrated ground and any assisted sucide would be unlikely to get the rite of extreme unction.

  14. Refusing to participate in her suicide on moral and religious grounds is not the same thing as ‘denying her freedoms’, and it’s sleazy, disingenuous, and dishonest to suggest otherwise.
    Don’t like it? Go to another hospital or nursing home. Apparently there are plenty of places in Belgium where they’d be happy to kill you.

  15. “…is a violator of human rights as defined by the United Nations.”
    THERE’S the problem! I had no idea my human rights emanated from the United Nations!
    The world gave this organization way too much power,and now they can define our rights on the basis of their need.

  16. We fought for that country for nothing.
    Canadian Observer, if that woman truly wanted to end herself, she could have done so without anyone else’s assistance.
    Why should all the moral and legal impetus be put on people who would rather not?
    And let’s not kid ourselves that euthanasia ISN’T about freeing up hospital beds.

  18. Exactly! The end game here is the slow destruction of any organized religious faith. Lenin, Stalin, et al did it quickly. Hitler’s boys in black would have got to it more seriously but that pesky war got in the way. The progressives are just doing it slowly and methodically. First it was the marriage commissioners and bakers, now it is faith based institutions and educational institutions (Trinity in British Columbia), next it will be the doctors.
    Make no mistake, eventually the alligator will come for you.

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