The Umbilical Cord of Idiocy or Why Republicans Hate America

Okay, so Nevsky had a great post about this whole Schiavo misadventure. (By the way, to follow up from my last post--No,"John" did not come to get me, but he has been spotted by members of this household driving around with his estranged wife.)
Anyways, back to the Schiavo disaster. The following are reasons why anyone who disagrees with me on this matter is an asshole.
>Decisions about life and death are, by their very nature, religious, or at very least a matter of personal conscience, and any government dictate is going to get it wrong at least some of the time. This is why our government previously established much freedom for the individual citizens to decide when life begins and ends. This is a principle embodied in the first amendment in terms of the separation of church and state.
>If the Schiavo family is really Christian, then they would be looking forward to Schiavo's reunification with Christ, and the removal of an unnatural feeding tube would provide a natural death and allow her to return to her maker in peace.
>Michael Schiavo has pursued this matter in good faith through the court system, which has almost unanimously agreed with him.
>Almost all medical professionals in this country agree with his opinion that his wife will never recover.
>If the Republicans desperately want to keep government out of corporate boardrooms, why is it so necessary to put it into our homes and consciences?
>The separation of powers in the constitution was clearly designed to keep one branch of government from being excessively controlling over another branch.
>The idea of judicial review has proved successful for the last two centuries in protecting our civil liberties and privacy from an intrusive federal government.
>The constitution clearly states that all powers not delegated by the constitution to the Federal government are reserved for the States and the people (Amendment X). Now, Republicans claim to be strict constructionists, so why are they being such deconstructionists on this issue?
>We are all going to die. The Republicans are merely delaying the inevitable.
>I do not have the right to impose my religious beliefs on others, however, the Congress seems quite capable of drafting legislation to impose a vaguely materialistic and legalistic Judeo-Christian view of life and death not shared by all Judeo-Christians on the entire country.
>Let this woman die in peace.
>What is to keep the Federal government from declaring Thursday to be "Put Matthew J. Lind through the Spanking Machine Day," if there is no such thing as Judicial Review?
>Why is this an issue? Why can't this man make these rational decisions for his moribund wife?
>I hope that every Congressperson who voted for this excrable piece of legislation suddenly gets stricken by a debilitating terminal disease, and their families are forced to watch them rot away slowly. Then, when their families move to have these honorable members of society die with dignity, the Federal government moves in to keep them alive and with the smallest amount of morphine possible
>I am glad that we are so smart, because otherwise God might be able to decide when we are born and when we die. But now, with in vitro fertilization and feeding tubes, we can make God irrelevant, whoops, I mean very, very important.
>Remember when Republicans mentioned God several thousand times in their speeches? They really meant Mammon, the God of materialism and a faithless clinging to physical existence because, actually, there is no God but Mammon and Epicureus was his prophet. According to Tom DeLay, this is the fundamental teaching of Christ about our human existence.
>We should cower in fear of physical death, because Jesus died for our sins and set us free from the bondage of the grave.
>If God wanted us to die with dignity, he wouldn't have invented feeding tubes.
>I am so mad I can't see straight.
The end.