Catholics claim opposition to all birth control. You didn't need to follow the latest dust up between between President Obama and Catholicism, Inc. to know that much. But every last Catholic, it seems, has grossly misinterpreted the particulars of that particular divine mandate.
The most god-awful form of contraception, which gets condom usage confused with taking communion, is voluntary, intentional abstinence. At least condoms fail once in a while.
But I have digressed before beginning. Why is abortioning bad? Even if a fetus/baby/sin is merely a few cells tall, your local local priest will happily remove his hands from the altar boy to explain those cells are every bit as much a full-fledged human being as former Congressman Anthony Weiner is. That's a future sinner you and your Planned Parenthood-accomplice killed. The Pill is nothing more and nothing less than a preemptive abortion, akin to the tragedy of menstruation. Every month, upon their coming of child-bearing age, the Lord extends an opportunity to every single woman, to create life.
Mississippi's Initiative 26, the November 8 state-wide referendum to declare 100% personhood and life, from the moment of conception, is a step in the Christian direction, but also nothing if not half-assed. A baby step. Miss. Governor Haley Barbour may be a mere Presbyterian, but on the defense of human life he does believe, along with, presumably, every church-going Catholic on Earth and in Heaven, that "life begins at conception."
As Republicans duke it out for the 2012 nomination, their presidential candidates know there are things they have to believe to maintain viability. Michele Bachmann toed the line, "I believe in the dignity of life from conception until natural death."
In one of his most recent abortion positions Herman Cain concurred, telling CBS he is "pro-life from conception, period."
I know Sarah Palin, sadly, doesn't intend to run until 2016. I know the following line doesn't even directly reflect her diehard (so to speak) pro-life position. But this quote just has to be rebroadcast: "For those of us lucky enough to be parents, there is no greater proof of the existence of God than to look into the face of your new baby."
So these folks, these pro-life traditionalists, would have us believe the cells constituting a fertilized egg have crossed the magical Rubicon into complete human being. But an unfertilized egg is nothing ? WTF is that?
I almost understand the argument that those few fertilized cells should be considered a full-fledged person because of their potential to become an actual person. But by that reasoning, every egg has every bit as much God-given potential. As Dr. Seuss pointed out way back in 1954 (inadvertently creating an occasional pro-life rallying cry), "A person's a person, no matter how small."
God did His job. He set the table for life. The Lord left it in your hands, creating a person even before you elected to flush it out. With a middle school understanding how basic biology functions, it is a conscious decision for a Christian female to decide that egg, her son or daughter, will never see a rainbow.
Using simple pro-life logic, the funeral that is menstruation is simply an indication she did not choose life, but opted for a pre-term abortion. If the Bible can claim any credibility, ladies, then that's a person God is sending your way each month. Deciding that, because you personally are already alive and well, it is not your problem who does and does not get to wake up each day, is the essence of hypocrisy.
Yet millions of women choose contraception, if not outright abstinence, each month. Placing their own mortal conveniences above God's holy request. To any intellectually honest pro-life Christian, the mortal sin of abstinence is indistinguishable from murder.
The most god-awful form of contraception, which gets condom usage confused with taking communion, is voluntary, intentional abstinence. At least condoms fail once in a while.
But I have digressed before beginning. Why is abortioning bad? Even if a fetus/baby/sin is merely a few cells tall, your local local priest will happily remove his hands from the altar boy to explain those cells are every bit as much a full-fledged human being as former Congressman Anthony Weiner is. That's a future sinner you and your Planned Parenthood-accomplice killed. The Pill is nothing more and nothing less than a preemptive abortion, akin to the tragedy of menstruation. Every month, upon their coming of child-bearing age, the Lord extends an opportunity to every single woman, to create life.
Mississippi's Initiative 26, the November 8 state-wide referendum to declare 100% personhood and life, from the moment of conception, is a step in the Christian direction, but also nothing if not half-assed. A baby step. Miss. Governor Haley Barbour may be a mere Presbyterian, but on the defense of human life he does believe, along with, presumably, every church-going Catholic on Earth and in Heaven, that "life begins at conception."
As Republicans duke it out for the 2012 nomination, their presidential candidates know there are things they have to believe to maintain viability. Michele Bachmann toed the line, "I believe in the dignity of life from conception until natural death."
In one of his most recent abortion positions Herman Cain concurred, telling CBS he is "pro-life from conception, period."
I know Sarah Palin, sadly, doesn't intend to run until 2016. I know the following line doesn't even directly reflect her diehard (so to speak) pro-life position. But this quote just has to be rebroadcast: "For those of us lucky enough to be parents, there is no greater proof of the existence of God than to look into the face of your new baby."
So these folks, these pro-life traditionalists, would have us believe the cells constituting a fertilized egg have crossed the magical Rubicon into complete human being. But an unfertilized egg is nothing ? WTF is that?
I almost understand the argument that those few fertilized cells should be considered a full-fledged person because of their potential to become an actual person. But by that reasoning, every egg has every bit as much God-given potential. As Dr. Seuss pointed out way back in 1954 (inadvertently creating an occasional pro-life rallying cry), "A person's a person, no matter how small."
God did His job. He set the table for life. The Lord left it in your hands, creating a person even before you elected to flush it out. With a middle school understanding how basic biology functions, it is a conscious decision for a Christian female to decide that egg, her son or daughter, will never see a rainbow.
Using simple pro-life logic, the funeral that is menstruation is simply an indication she did not choose life, but opted for a pre-term abortion. If the Bible can claim any credibility, ladies, then that's a person God is sending your way each month. Deciding that, because you personally are already alive and well, it is not your problem who does and does not get to wake up each day, is the essence of hypocrisy.
Yet millions of women choose contraception, if not outright abstinence, each month. Placing their own mortal conveniences above God's holy request. To any intellectually honest pro-life Christian, the mortal sin of abstinence is indistinguishable from murder.
