Joe points out in reporting this that it’s always good to remember that our opponents are always mining our comments sections looking for things to use against us, but this is newsworthy, so I’m reposting it:
Chuck Colson, the convicted Watergate figure turned evangelist, is in critical condition after undergoing surgery over the weekend following a brain hemorrhage, according to his publicist.
“Colson is listed in critical condition at this point but has shown some early signs of potential for recovery,” said a statement Tuesday from the DeMoss Group. A spokeswoman for the PR firm said Wednesday morning that she had no update on Colson’s condition.
Colson, 80, fell ill while speaking Friday at a conference outside Washington and “underwent surgery on Saturday morning to remove a pool of clotted blood on the surface of his brain,” the statement said.
Joe also notes that Colson was one of the authors of the hideously hateful Manhattan Declaration, a how-to guide for conservative Christians seeking to disobey laws that make life better for LGBT people.
Karma’s a b***h.
well…I wont lie and say he is a good or decent man, for he isn’t. He is loathsome. But, for his families sake, I hope he recovers, or passes on painlessly at least. They love him no doubt, and everyone suffers when a loved one is so ill, regardless of their age or how they lived their life. I would not wish on his family (hassles visiting, difficulty making decisions for him while he is incapicated) he wishes on us.
The fact he is a moral failure and ex con doesn’t play into it at a time like this.
I will say this though. I DO hope he lives several more years, in good health, and will full mentation/cognition. I want him to see the next generations turn their back on his bigotry, and for him to see it happen. Truly, that would be justice.
Until we hear about his family being kept from him for some arbitrary reason like he thinks should happen to us, look somewhere else for sympathy.
RainbowPhoenix’s response is just about right. Not hateful, just laying it out like it is. Depending on the severity of the hemorrhage, Mr. Colson could recover, remain in a vegetative state, or die painlessly. There are no hard and fast rule for this.
the average life expectancy for a male in the U.S. is 76 so he is four years overdue. Just saying.
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I wish I could be a little more sympathetic.
Chuck Colson is the type of fundagelical christianist who would attribute this same accident occurring to an LGBT person as “God’s judgement” or “God trying to lead them to repentance” or some such b******t. Of course, when it happens to HIM it isn’t God’s judgement for his persecution of others, its “just an accident” or a “trial from the Lord”, blah, blah, blah ad nauseam. If he and his family are truly believers in the beneficence of their Lord, they should be heeding Paul, Christianity’s founder when he says: “and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.” Why even do medical intervention when this is Chuck Colson’s chance to be with his Savior?, the one he opines is going to cast LGBT folks in the fires of hell for ever and ever, amen.
Like I said, its hard for me to be sympathetic.