Posted on 01/25/2015 11:32:48 AM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Elizabeth Hovde: Reaction to anti-abortion rally highlights Portland's intolerance for opposing views
People in the Portland area tend to say minorities should be heard and valued. There's a lot of bragging about this tolerant, nonconformist land. And "Keep Portland Weird" has become an informal mantra of the city's residents, with a bumper sticker always married to a car, wall or backpack nearby. (Never mind that the saying was imported from an Austin, Texas, buy-local campaign started by the Austin Independent Business Alliance. Details, details.)
But pride in feeling superior, another Portland tendency, trumps that whole valuing-minority-opinions thing, I fear. Proof? Criticism of Sunday's anti-abortion rally marking the 42nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision.
While a lot of us were eating dip and sipping favorite libations as the Packers-Seahawks game provided the most entertaining football some of us have ever seen, about 1,000 pro-lifers were in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square "fighting for the lives of the unborn," Liberty Pike, Oregon Right to Life's communications director, told me. The ORTL crew actually stopped for lunch at a Buffalo Wild Wings so Packers' fan Bryan Kemper, the rally speaker and former Portland resident, could watch the beginning of the NFC Championship. Pike said he at least saw the part of the game that a hard-core Packers' fan would want to see. (By the way, go 'Hawks!)
Press coverage of the rally became a launching pad for those in the area's pro-abortion majority to vilify and pile insults and accusations onto the anti-abortion minority. Ugly.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
prolife, oregon ping...
and tell me why is Portland “weird”?
From the article:
“The anti-abortion community needs hearts and minds to change more than laws, anyway. That’s what can stop abortion. The law can’t. It didn’t.”
We need to change the law and do MORE than that.
Author is arguing that we need to do LESS.
In states that have passed restrictions, the abortion rate dropped by as much as 50%. Right-to-Life is a legal, political concept. To argue the way the author is ... makes her personally opposed, but “pro-choice”.
I live in Austin. Austin is weird. I have visited Portland. Portland is predictable.
Portland’s Multnomah County is a cancer on the rest of the state. Remove that one county and Oregon becomes Republican again.
“and tell me why is Portland “weird”?”
Well putting out a LOT of mass transit that no one uses is weird.
You are so right!
Simple: "California-creep"
I could not talk a woman I love out of an abortion. Since then I have saved 17 others. I look forward to meeting young Michael in heaven.
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