Many years ago I was given a task: Tell whoever
would listen that every life is sacred and deserves protection, care and love. I
took that message across North America. I believe that simple task was my life's work. For
whatever reason, God put me in a wheelchair to deliver it. That message has
been given and now I'm tired. In one of my last speeches, I summed up the
message:
“I am convinced that, if a society does not
embrace the sanctity, dignity, and equality of all human life (and North
American society does not), any barbarity is possible. A truly civilized
society includes in its tender embrace every human life—every child developing
in the womb, every person with a mental or physical disability, those with
terminal conditions, derelicts, the old, and people who are not wanted or even
loved by anyone. Impossible, you say? Perhaps, but I’m a sucker for hopeless
causes. Maybe it comes from having what many consider a hopeless disease. Love
is what defines an enlightened and civilized society. But love needs the
divine. The brotherhood of man needs the Fatherhood of God. Love without God
becomes selective, coercive, and arbitrary—turning the lives of the weakest and
most vulnerable into hell on earth. Yes, I am convinced that human
enlightenment is impossible without God.”
Leonard Cohen wrote a song called
"Anthem." In many ways, it is an anthem for the past 25 years of my life. Love is a
choice—it is the last chance for survival of our dying western Christian
civilization.
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