Regarding the ACLU complaint against the Kahala Nui retirement home for refusing to recognize laws that allow the terminally ill to obtain medication to end their own life, calling it “morally repugnant” (“ACLU accuses Kahala Nui retirement home of discrimination for its ban on medically assisted death,” Star-Advertiser, Nov. 2).

The Catholic Church has little backing when it comes to what is “morally repugnant,” much less the grounds to define it. The hundreds of documented cases of sexual molestation of minors, and the coverups and whitewashing by Catholic priests and church hierarchy, all witnessed by a God they’ve dedicated their lives to, is truly “morally repugnant.”

There is also the fact that the church, like so many other major religions, is openly misogynist. You can’t be a bishop, cardinal or pope because you were born with a vagina? That’s offensive to me and I’m a male. That stance, along with its own web of criminality, gives the church little moral authority to dictate to a 90-something-year-old how he or she should leave this world.

Patrick Kelly

Kaimuki

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