There is an unrealized connection between same sex marriage, the right to die and or kill, and the legalization of recreational drugs, the law and the loss of religious freedom.
On this podcast of The Bible Factor, Pastor Paul Holt discusses euthanasia’s rise in the Netherlands, Canada and New Mexico and how that is affected by court decisions regarding the right to refuse to participate in a same sex marriage (or obligation as it turns out) and the legalization of pot in various places.
According to a Newsweek article, in the Netherlands in 2013 4,829 people took their own lives with the help of a doctor. That’s more than triple the number of people who committed suicide in 2002.
On February 6, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down a ban on physician-assisted suicide, joining Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland on the list of Western countries where euthanasia is fully legal. Switzerland has allowed assisted suicide since 1942, so long as patients “participate” in the administration of life-ending drugs (by ingesting them).
The scope of the Canadian judicial fiat is not limited to the terminally ill: The ruling grants competent adults a right to die if they have an “illness, disease, or disability that causes enduring suffering that is intolerable to the individual,” including “psychological” pain.
But here’s the kicker. The Canadians will ultimately require physicians to assist a patient in dying even if it violates a doctor’s deeply held beliefs. Does this sound familiar somehow? It should.
Remember the florist in Washington state who is being persecuted, I mean prosecuted for not providing flowers for a same sex marriage due to her Christian values? The courts are finding that you must serve people even if it violates your beliefs.
Lest we forget, the state of New Mexico may soon join the ranks of the Canadians and the Dutch. The New Mexico Court of Appeals is deciding the case of Aja Riggs, who was diagnosed with uterine cancer and is currently in remission. She would like the right to die should the cancer return.
She may get that right too. After all, the New Mexico court also found that a photographer did not have the right to refuse to photograph a gay commitment ceremony regardless of the photographer’s religious beliefs. It is not a leap in logic to assume that if the courts find a right to die in between the letters of the state’s constitution that the same court might find an obligation for doctors to kill people in violation of their beliefs, religious or not.
Godless courts across the country are destroying the United States constitution, especially the first amendment’s religious freedom in favor of the rights to commit murder and sexual immorality, while America sleeps.
Resources used in this podcast:
ISIS Trains Child Soldiers at Camps for ‘Cubs of the Islamic State‘, NBC News (Cassandra Vinograd, Ghazi Balkiz and Ammar Cheikh Omar))
Dying Dutch: Euthanasia Spreads Across Europe, Newsweek (Winston Ross)
Euthanasia Comes to Canada, Weekly Standard (Wesley J. Smith)
