“It is particularly hypocritical when you have people who say they advocate on the Defense of Marriage Act who now insert themselves between a husband and his wife.”
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida), Chicago Tribune, 3/21/05
“As for killing his wife, that’s his business—but for killing that child, well, he gots to suffer for that.”
Convicted murderer and Scott Peterson’s fellow San Quentin death row inmate Ricardo “Richie” Roldan, New York Post, 3/20/05
On Friday, March 18, 2005, the Chicago Sun-Times ran the following story,”Cops question husband after wife found beaten to death in River Forest,” about the recent murder of Therese Pender by her estranged husband. He allegedly used a 15 1/2 inch cross peen hammer to take her life. She had escaped from her abusive marriage only two months earlier, after three years of terror inflicted by her unemployed mope husband. Ms. Pender was a legal secretary for well-known father’s rights advocate Jeffrey Leving. He told the Sun-Times that “the man took Pender’s money to buy his own meals and would not let her eat.”
Perhaps this guy should contact Rep. Wasserman and any number of the democrats I watched in open-mouthed shock on C-SPAN late into the night and into the early morning of Monday, March 21, 2005, as they railed against their hypocritical opponents who were battling to preserve the life of Terri Schiavo. What a great defense—starving your wife is part of a man’s “right of privacy,” one of those rights that the Supreme Court discovered in that mysterious emanation from that crazy penumbra! That’s even better than the Mark McGwire “I don’t want to talk about the past. I’m here to be positive” routine.
It’s too bad that Rep. Wasserman can’t ask Laci Peterson or Therese Pender which ranks higher on the sanctity totem pole, the sanctity of marriage or the sanctity of life. It’s also too bad that Mr. Pender can’t get all the dems in Congress who opposed federal intervention in the Schiavo case, along with Mr. Roldan, of course, on his jury.