Bloggystyle -- The Greatest

Turns out Terri Schiavo is one of the least retarded individuals around that hospice.

Katherine Ewing has found herself a spot about 100 yards from the center.

She stands alone, well out of the spotlight, well away from all that certainty. She stands without signs, quietly reading the Bible. "Michael (Schiavo) thinks he's doing the right thing. The Schindlers (Terri Schiavos' parents) think they're doing the right thing," she says. "When you hear both sides, deciding on what the truth is is terribly difficult."

"I want to be in the truth," she says. "I feel the only way I can do that is through the Lord's word. He told me to just come here and read the word."

Ewing, 48, works with a youth mission ministry in Tyler, Texas. She and her friend Lisa Trenary, 35, drove 22 hours to get here Saturday. They're living in a two-person tent set up on the grass in front of the hospice. They use a portable toilet across the street and eat a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

They've got a real motley crew, besides the Bible thumping pharisees.

Nearby, a man plays bagpipes. Another taunts police officers who are guarding the hospice entrance by goose-stepping in front of them and occasionally stopping to give them a Nazi-like salute.

I think I figured out who that last hooligan was:

Randall Terry, a protest organizer and a spokesman for the Schindler family, says most of the protesters are here because of "love of God and love of their neighbor."

"Most of them have a high regard for the value of human life and how life has value in the eyes of God," he says.

Janet Spear, 53, who drove 13 hours from Birmingham, Ala., where she is between jobs, is one of them. "I was praying back in Birmingham," she says, "but I felt like I needed to be here."

She has been here since Wednesday, walking the sidewalks and beating slowly on a bodhran, an Irish hand drum, to symbolize Schiavo's heartbeat.

Finally we end with more of Ms. Ewing.

"We've just got to cling to God," she says. "He has all wisdom. And he is able to do what is right for everyone involved."

From time to time, Ewing says, someone comes up and asks why she isn't at the other end of the protest area, closer to the news cameras.

"They'll come up and say, 'No one is looking at you. Why are you doing this way over here?' " Ewing says. "I say, 'God is looking. God hears me.' "

Behold the wonders of the religious right!