+1. Personally my issue with most right-to-lifers is the lack of compromise and > hypocrisy. > > +) "Abortion is bad" is an easy sell. Gruss is right, most everyone would > agree with that. However they fail to compromise: "Abortion is a sin!" and > (in classic "if God doesn't like it then neither should government") they > want to make it illegal. No abortion is good, ever no matter what the > circumstances. No person that would ever consider an abortion can be good, > no matter what the circumstances. > > +) Now... Abortion is a sin, but dammit - so is sex. So while we hate > abortion we also won't abide any sort of birth control to help control it. > Organizations that provide education about birth control should not get > government money. They are evil. Sex is bad and "safe sex" just promotes > it. > > There's no middle ground - abstinence until marriage and then sex for > procreation. No matter than this doesn't actually address the problem at > at > - it's God's and sin is sin. > > (I've been ridiculed by fundamentalist Christians for having a vasectomy. > They feel that the only really I had it was so that I could have more sex > with my wife without risking another pregnancy... and they're right. But > they don't like it.) > > Of course the hierocracy comes in when you see how they treat life in > other > scenarios. Pro-lifers are nearly always pro-death penalty. They're for the > war in Iraq. > > They're not "pro-life" - they're pro (an interpretation of) God. Period. > > There's no room for compromise because it's a matter of faith and "live > and > let live" isn't, apparently, close enough to the front of the Bible. > > If you can't compromise you can't address an issue rationally. If you > can't > address an issue rationally you can't solve it. And if you can't solve an > issue you get what we have today. > > Jim Davis > > > >
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