Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do.

What exactly has been done here in the name of "justice"? In the name of "justice" Robert Latimer has been taken from his two small children and his loving wife. He has been removed from his family farm and placed in a federal prison which costs Canadians over $50,000 per inmate per year.

Robert Latimer nursed his quadriplegic daughter, Tracy, who in the beginning had moments of happiness with her family. During this time of many operations to relieve the unbearably painful muscle spasms, her father saved her from choking to death 12 times. As Tracy began to suffer more and more from her severe cerebral palsy, the Latimers became more and more desperate for help. The medical profession could offer no guarantees that the next painful operation would serve Tracy any better than the last. As a matter of fact, they too could see a future of unendingly severe pain for Tracy.

Tracy's loving father put her to sleep, thus freeing her soul from her tortured body. A Roman soldier could do no less when he put his spear into Christ's side to save him from an agonizingly slow death. How disabled people and their organizations could so pervert this act of kindness into an attack on all disabled people is a true mystery. They will never be in Tracy's position.

If they can line the halls of the Supreme Court of Canada in silent testimony to their groundless fears, they can also ask for painkillers. Tracy could not. They have chosen to destroy a loving family and their family farm. I can not forgive them, but, as a Christian, I must.

Maybe in 10 years.

Hugh Jenney