Please Pardon my Purging...

[P3nT4gR4m]

I'm stern with my kids, but I won't be making them vote a certain way, think that they have to "accept" this premade, prefab'd, plasticated premise about baby jesus swinging from the rearview mirror.  No matter how much my Bible-thumping relatives want me to.

Baby Jesus does not swing from rearview mirrors. Fact: If you see Baby Jesus in your rearview mirror it means he is about to kill you. That's all you need to teach your kids about Baby Jesus.

[Jenne]

  Sounds good to me!

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Bump for old-timey rage.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

I was just thinking about a friend of mine, the other day. This thread fits. How entertaining.

[AFK]

WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE THINKING???

Have you ever had abortion protestors in your neighborhood?  I,Äôm not talking about the nice old lady who goes to the church down the street who tries to give good intentioned advice.  I,Äôm talking about the clan that travels city to city, town to town.  They line the major highways and streets, shouting their slogans.  And, of course, there are the visuals.

The grotesque pictures of aborted fetuses. 

They hope to shame and shock those who have gone through the procedure.  To show them the bloody error of their ways.  To show how they desecrated life.  All the while not showing the least bit of reservation about displaying it for those who do not need to see it.

There are those who have gone through trauma.  They are in a situation where bringing a life into the world just isn,Äôt a good idea.  They know they would be inadequate parents.  They know they could not feed the child.  Or, other reasons.  Then, you have another set of people.  The ones, who, involuntary, lost a developing life very early in the process.  The ones, who went through the gut-wrenching, soul-crushing episode that is miscarriage. 

But, the cold and unfeeling medical industry will label it as, ,Äúan abortion,Äù because it happened before 12 weeks.  Yeah, it,Äôs just a billing term, the Doc says.  But, in society, it is a stigma.  Meanwhile, the cold, unfeeling protestors display their images.  Unknowing and/or uncaring that they are re-traumatizing women who, not of their choice, had a pregnancy end very pre-maturely.  They did not have a choice.  They wished for this life force to come to fruition, while nature had other plans.  Yet, they are subjected to the cruel, ignorant indifference of religious zealots. 

But, religious zealotry is like the War on Terror.  Collateral Damage be Damned.  All I know is that if they decide to come to my town, they best not darken my doorstep.  Because I will not think twice,Ķ

I know I don't rant and rage like I used to, but I still stand behind the last two sentences 167%!  One of those fuckers come to my door they're leaving with fewer teeth. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I liked your rants and rages.

[AFK]

I've been doing a lot of it offline, IRL, about the topics that tend to get a little 'splodey around here.