Contact: Dane Rose of the National Clergy Council, 202-546-8329 ext. 106
WASHINGTON, April 7 /Christian Wire Service/ — The National Clergy council, representing thousands of church leaders from Catholic, Evangelical, Orthodox and Protestant traditions, applauds one of its own executive council members, Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life, who has been “frank” in talking publicly about the atrocious killing of Terri Schiavo.
“Fr. Frank has called this for what it is, murder,” said the Reverend Rob Schenck, president of the National Clergy Council and a minister and past board member of the Evangelical Church Alliance. “Terri Schiavo was not dying. She was simply being fed by others, in the same way an infant or even someone with the flu might be assisted by others. Terri was starved and dehydrated to death. No matter what the courts want to call this, in moral and ethical language it is the deliberate taking of innocent human life and that is murder.”
The National Clergy Council is working with congressional and state legislative leaders for judicial reform and the future impeachment of judges that act in flagrant disregard of constitutionally protected rights, including the unalienable right to life.
