Patrick said...
> i know sometimes
>some of us ...cough...mature folk don't fully recognize the unique
>perspective that comes with youth. you should get to know yael from
>michigan. she's very very up beat and postive and plays joni songs and
>often speaks for the young perspective.
Why Patrick thank you so muchly for the lovely compliment :-)
I can't speak for all young people but as I gradually grow out of that
category I try to stay an ally! As far as playing Joni songs goes - <sigh>
- my guitar playing has recently been under attack by the grad school
workload. And I signed up for 4-5 more years of this?
Then Patrick also told us about his grandmother - which was a great
real-life story - I love that! Here it is:
(my comment first:)
<< For example, will Ashcroft, as attorney general, be committed
to upholding the law that keeps people from bombing and hounding abortion
clinics? Whether or not one is pro-choice or anti-choice, it is important
to uphold the law... Just as an example.
>>
hey yael, this made me think of my very italian, very liberal democratic, and
very catholic mother. she hates the look of george bush. she hates his
face.[...]
my main point is this. she would never condone the bombing of clinics and
would not look the other way of laws that protect the lives of abortion
supporters. to her, that would be ...sick. [...]
so i would hope that mr. ashcroft is able to separate the issues and work to
protect all humans from injury and if he thinks that's important for unborn
humans i would hope he'll see that important for born humans who work in
clinics.
My response is two-fold:
1. I totally did not mean to imply that all pro-life people are evil and
want to bomb clinics. I know many pro-lifers and I can sympathize with
their positions though I am staunchly pro-choice.
2. But as far as Ashcroft is concerned... My point with the abortion thing
was that it was simply an example. Here is another example - he lobbied (or
sponsored?) a proposed amendment to extend constitutional rights as early
as fertilization. Not even fetuses - newly fertilized sperm+egg as much
rights as the woman who carried little teeny-tiny mass of cells. The
problem with that? Oh, many as far as I am concerned, but they include that
it would make the birth control pill illegal because it sometimes functions
to prevent implantation of a fertilized egg in the womb.
My point? He is far, far, far right. And it isn't as if he has kept his
religious beliefs aside from his politics. And to whoever made that comment
about Gore and lots of others being Southern Baptist - I agree completely -
I am concerned about anyone who feels the need to campaign on the premise
of how religious they are.
Just examples, always more where they came from.
-Yael
