really really really bad taste. I mean it.

[kellinator]

Is it a sign of just how cynical I've gotten that a big part of me is wondering if now Terri Schiavo's parents and their cronies in the religious right who have exploited her for political gain are pissed that she's no longer the biggest death-related news story of the day?

Comments

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

I remember that Mother Teresa died around the same time as Princess Diana, and she got the short end of the stick.

Because some ditzy, inbred blonde deserves more press than a woman who devoted her whole life to helping the poor and unwanted.

[pokeyturtle.livejournal.com]

by exhorting them to create more poor and unwanted.

diana didn't just sit around on her thumb. she used her celebrity to help with charitable causes as well. it ain't much, but it's more than most of us do.

Thank you.

[scarcrest.livejournal.com]

Mother Teresa wasn't the devil, but neither was she God. She's someone who was quoted more than once as saying that suffering was good because it drew people closer to God, and as such people who left her order said she frowned upon giving painkillers to those who were hurting.

Re: Thank you.

[pokeyturtle.livejournal.com]

right. she was one of the stricter catholics out there, it would seem. once upon a time most of them thought as she did. thankfully that is no longer the case, except maybe concerning birth control and abortion. although, even that merited no commentary nor Official Stance until women started making serious strides towards equality.

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're right. The fact that Mother Teresa was against birth control completely invalidates everything else she ever did.

[pokeyturtle.livejournal.com]

in some ways, it did. what's the point in helping the poor if you're just going to insist they make more poor? and we're not talking one or two kids per poor mother here. if that were the case it might not be such a big deal. mother teresa worked in a community where mothers had LOTS of kids. not such a big deal for rich families, and even desirable in their culture. VERY big deal for middle-class and poor families. having children's the one major life decision you can make that can permanently make you or break you from a financial point of view.

she didn't care. that just blows my mind.

[missakins.livejournal.com]

Mother Teresa was Blonde?

I remember a lot of charity money and work coming from Diana.