David N. Bass

Published January 29, 2005, on WorldNetDaily.com

This was a distressing week for the sanctity of life in America.

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene in the life-and-death struggle surrounding Terri Schindler-Schiavo, a brain-disabled Florida woman who has been condemned to death by her estranged husband, Michael Schiavo, and his “right to die” cohorts simply because she requires a feeding tube for sustenance. With other legal options quickly running out, the high court’s inaction effectively constitutes Terri’s death sentence.  Read the rest of this entry »

Published January 22, 2005, on WorldNetDaily.com

Students at Yale University got an earful Tuesday when ACLU President Nadine Strossen outlined her agenda for the coming year at a school-sponsored master’s tea. While harping on her organization’s mission “to defend all fundamental rights of all people” (unless, of course, you happen to be both evangelical and heterosexual), Strossen indicated that, among other goals, a push for legalized polygamy may be on the horizon.

In answer to a student’s question about homosexual and polygamous marriage, Strossen told the group of students that the ACLU has “defended the right for individuals to engage in polygamy” and that her organization will continue defending “the freedom of choice for mature, consenting adults,” according to YaleDailyNews.com.  Read the rest of this entry »

Published January 19, 2005, on AmericanDaily.com

No sooner did Americans finish ringing in the New Year than global warming is again appearing in news headlines around the nation. The devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean has served to renew concern over the possibility of cataclysmic changes in the earth’s crust or weather patterns. Some scientists insist that blame for the destructive tidal wave can be laid squarely in the hands of human beings, while others say such assertions are politically motivated and skew scientific reality.

Whether science or science fiction, global warming has become an international obsession. Great Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair plans to place the issue high on the agenda when his country hosts the top eight industrialized nations from around the world at the G8 summit later this year, according to the Financial Times. “Our effect on the environment, and in particular on climate change, is large and growing,” Mr. Blair told a group of business leaders in September, adding, “We cannot afford to ignore the warnings.”  Read the rest of this entry »

Published January 15, 2005, on WorldNetDaily.com

Suggesting that evolution is a theory rather than fact endorses religion and causes anguish among impressionable school children in an Atlanta suburb, at least in the opinion of U.S. District Court Judge Clarence Cooper.

On Thursday, the Clinton-appointed district judge dove head first into the evolution versus intelligent design debate by ordering the Cobb County Board of Education to remove a sticker from science textbooks stating that “evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things.” Added by the school board in 2002 to be more inclusive of differing beliefs regarding human origins, the sticker concludes by suggesting that evolutionary instruction “be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered.”  Read the rest of this entry »

Published January 8, 2005, on WorldNetDaily.com

Throughout his decade-long crusade to condemn Terri Schiavo to a gruesome starvation death, Michael Schiavo has habitually hinged his case on three words: “persistent vegetative state.” He has pawned the lie that since his brain-disabled wife requires a feeding tube for sustenance, she is no more human than a vegetable; that since she needs more care and attention than the average human being, her life is no longer worth living.

That lie has done its job. Every time we turn on the television and hear the name Terri Schiavo, we are condescendingly reminded of her “persistent vegetative state.” Bob and Mary Schindler are blasted in newspaper opinion columns across the country for believing their daughter is still a human being capable of recovery and worthy of protection under the U.S. Constitution. All efforts to save her are in vain, the pundits tell us. She is beyond rehabilitation, beyond treatment and beyond hope. Read the rest of this entry »