DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Monday, February 25, 2013

Oscar Host Seth McFarlane’s Blatant Bigotry

Oscar Host Seth McFarlane’s Blatant Bigotry

February 25, 2013 (Wesley J. Smith/The Corner) – Can you imagine the Oscars allowing anyone to host the big show who had mocked defenseless minorities? No? Well, think again. This year’s host, Seth McFarlane, created Family Guy, a show which castigated the late Terri Schiavo as a “vegetable”—which, like the N-word, is an epithet meant to demean, degrade, and dehumanize. From my blog entry on the bigotry:

Fox’s Family Guy stooped even beneath its usual scatological obsessions to literally mock a dead woman, whose only “crime” was to have been profoundly cognitively disabled. The episode—which I embedded below only after much thought, opens with a fictional school play, Terri Schiavo:The Musical.