It's awfully damned easy to espouse a yes/no, right/wrong POV. All you have to do is scream. It's way harder to think about grey, and what to freakin' do when life complicates things.
This.
And what smonster said.
I cannot believe that I left the board for hours this evening to have dinner with meatspace friends and had the same, exact conversation...only with no awareness of the Oklahoma business.
One of us is a former nun who's sister works for Operation Rescue. Debate much? Oh, yes we did.
The simultaneously charming and alarming thing was that she was clueless to the 'we care until the baby is born' segment of the anti-abortion community.
When I mentioned going to marches and asking the anti-abortion folks how many adopted children they had, she earnestly waited for the answer. Bless that naivete, I guess.
She also felt it was impossible that anyone connected to Operation Rescue had in any way, EVER been connected with violence against clinics or doctors. Oh, NO. They only do lobbying.
Uh. huh.
That is...very sheltered. I suppose I think of nuns as kind of the educated storm troopers of the Catholic world.
Dude, a newscaster just said "Mr. Obama." Shouldn't that be "President," like, always?
I suppose I think of nuns as kind of the educated storm troopers of the Catholic world.
This was my experience of the avowed religious in my program at Loyola. I loved them all. The wives of the Baptist ministers who proudly shared the horrifying scare tactics they used in their pregnancy 'crisis' centers? No love.
The other day I was in my friend's children's consignment shop when a woman came in with flyers for such a center. I asked a couple of questions, to which she would only say, "Um, I'm new...I think it is connected to a church but I don't really know..." Right.
My friend was so open and welcoming with her, but the hair went up on the back of my neck. When she left, without pushing my fear too much, I asked him to look the center up on the 'net before putting the literature out. Those papers never hit the counter, I tell you what.
I am quite sure that if I had been alive in medieval times, I would have been a nun or a courtesan. Maybe one first, then the other.
Dude, a newscaster just said "Mr. Obama." Shouldn't that be "President," like, always?
...eh? I think it's fairly common to say Mr. Obama, Mr. Bush, etc?
smonster, Mr is acceptable, also. I hear it an awful lot on NPR. I think it's an adressing him vs referring to him thing.
I wish everyone could just agree to do things that are actually helpful in reducing the number of abortions. It would make the world a little bit simpler.
This is MOST people, you know? It's really, numerically speaking, a tiny percentage of pro-life people who are anti-birth control and anti-education. They're a loud fucking minority, however.
They're a loud fucking minority, however.
Squeaky wheels get the grease...in the form of press coverage.
