Another good one from Best of the Web:
“A New Mexico family is suing its local Catholic church over a funeral Mass at which the priest allegedly said their relative was going straight to hell,” the BBC reports:
The family of Ben Martinez, 80, allege that Reverend Scott Mansfield said he was “living in sin,” “lukewarm in his faith” and that “the Lord vomited people like Ben out of his mouth to hell.” . . .
Nine members of the Martinez family are seeking punitive and compensatory damages for severe emotional and physical suffering.
They say Mr Martinez had been a practising Catholic all his life, but was too ill to attend church in his last year.
Unfortunately, the plaintiffs are in one of those Catch-22s. If Martinez is in heaven, no doubt he’d make a sympathetic witness–but where would he find a lawyer to take his deposition?
Not So Fast 