Too long. I started sympathetic to a fellow Tolkien fan, but started begrudging "his say" about three minutes in. Two more thoughts - 1. the creepy background music @3:30 was not an improvement. 2. "It's not a lie if you believe it." Since both sides are sincere, this battle will not be won rhetorically. More than half the church must fix itself (65% is an estimate I believe) before it takes on Planned Parenthood or anyone else who is also fighting for what they know is right. We must make our own world a lot safer before I condemn anyone for contraception. Fr Hollowell should be glad his parents took a chance on the future. I can't say his political trash talk convinced me that anyone else should. Do battle against devaluing children, against eugenics, not against the government. We are the government. We win by showing how much we love, not how hateful "The Others" are.
Well, Catholics are about one fourth of the American electorate, and Mr.Obama got 54% of their vote last time around, If, this time, so much as 10% of Catholics turn against him - and it might be more - this will leave him having to find several million more voters to replace them. And all the radical feminists have already voted for him.
But on the other hand I would say that the self-described Catholics who care about abortion issues already voted for the Republicans in 2008 and are not likely to be swing voters either.
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Date: 2012-03-03 04:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-05 04:43 am (UTC)Two more thoughts - 1. the creepy background music @3:30 was not an improvement. 2. "It's not a lie if you believe it." Since both sides are sincere, this battle will not be won rhetorically. More than half the church must fix itself (65% is an estimate I believe) before it takes on Planned Parenthood or anyone else who is also fighting for what they know is right. We must make our own world a lot safer before I condemn anyone for contraception. Fr Hollowell should be glad his parents took a chance on the future. I can't say his political trash talk convinced me that anyone else should.
Do battle against devaluing children, against eugenics, not against the government. We are the government. We win by showing how much we love, not how hateful "The Others" are.
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Date: 2012-03-05 05:11 am (UTC)no subject
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