CATHOLIC CHURCH WANTS TO VETO NC LAW

The org that brought us heightened national alertness to pedophilia and that preaches against contraception now wants to dictate its sense of morality in the way North Carolinians chose end-of-life treatment.

A bill in the state legislature, which the N&O says has been developed over three years with the help of the N.C. Medical Society, would give terminal patients more control over their lives, but this doesn't sit well with the Catholic Bishop of Raleigh, who after all comes out of an ecclesiastical tradition that is used to pushing everyone around, including kings and queens and potentates.

But to their credit, the NC Senate committee considering the "advanced directives" bill passed the law out of committee anyway, despite the pursing of the bishop's lips.