On Friday, my diary urged kossacks to e-mail or call S.C. Father Jay Scott Newman and encourage him to also deny communion to pro-death penalty republicans after he declared that Obama suppoters should not take communion. Father Longenecker, a priest at the same catholic church has now sent me TWELVE e-mails!
His first e-mail clearly shows that he has been watching FOX news or listening to Rush Limbaugh wayyyyyyy too much.
There are, of course, radical and irrational people on both sides of this debate. There are those (like our president elect) who advocate partial birth abortion, deny medical care to infants born alive after botched abortion, vote against welfare and assistance for women in crisis pregnancies. Others not only wish for freedom of choice, but pressure women into abortion through many different means.
This next one makes one ask: should I use birth control or just have an abortion every few months? As if anyone actually thinks like that.
Also, while wishing for compassion for women in crisis pregnancies, I am not so naive as to imagine that there are also wicked women out there who would use abortion as a method of birth control and heartlessly kill numerous of their offspring. A just system would also sanction their behavior.
I wrote him that pro-choice is not the same thing as pro-abortion. I wrote him that just because he doesn't want smoking and drinking to be made illegal, it doesn't make him pro-cigarette or pro-alcohol. His response.
Not to be against a clear and obvious evil is to support it. All it takes for evil to triumph is for enough good men to do nothing.
In the 1858 many good people were pro choice and in favor of the status quo. The Dred Scott decision had enshrined the right for people to make their own choice whether to have slaves or not. Many said they were against slavery, but pro choice. Would you have agreed with them?
I wrote back: There is just no comparsion between the plight of millions of slaves and the plight of collections of cells.
Oh well, enough ....