I've just finished reading an MSNBC report about a family of faith healers. Now normally that wouldn't be anything of great interest or of note ability. However this particular family chose not to treat their fifteen month old baby girl when she came down with  bronchial pneumonia. Now I've had pneumonia, its brutal, painfull, and all around an infection that drastically affects anyone who gets it. I can't imagine what this little girl must have gone through. I just can't understand how any parents could just sit and watch their own child deteriorate into nothingness and not try ever last option to help them. I know that religion and science haven't always had the best track record together, but come on. These parents watched as their child writhed in pain, burning up with a fever, hacking her lungs out before she finally died. All it would have taken to save her was a simple trip to the doctors to get antibiotics. She would have made a full recover had she gotten medical treatment. Not to mention that the church they belong to has a long standing history of "stillborn" babies and child fatalities. How can this be allowed to continue. These children have no choice in the matter, they have no voice in the community. I look at this as near ritualistic sacrifice, and to think they are only getting manslaughter. The charge should be murder, they knowingly refused to take her to get medical help, that premeditated if I ever saw it. 
      So this brings me to the point I'd like to leave you with. In cases of faith healers children dying, should their sentences be droppedd because its their religion? Or should they be increased because these children don't have a choice, and in all honesty don't know any better? 

Hers's the link to the MSNBC report.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23882698/

There is officially another furry to infest the live journal blood lines. I look forward to finding another furry social network to join. I hope not to be swept up into any drama but I'll take the gloves off if I have to. Ranting will be kept at a manageable level, and bad mouthing will be minimal, unless politics and religion get brought up. In other words hey y'all, how ya doing, hows ya momma, hope the kins all good, and here Johnny and all that jazz. Well that was hello so here's good bye for now.