You know what my concern is about all this? That the pro life movement, which is a just movement, was making wonderful strides among moderates and even some democrats. I could see positions softening with the few democrats I know.
They are getting older, their daughters are having children and they are seeing the ultrasounds, etc. and the new technology that permitted these previous pro choice women to see the unborn in a way they never did before.
We have all read articles about how the those little babies put their hands over their ears when a loud noise is made. I've forgotten what week that happens in but I think the studies have said as early as 12 weeks.
When pro life movements call me for money, they are the nicest people and I've told them that I've thought they should play up the technology and studies that I just mentioned; that it's having an impact and they've agreed.
But the face of Randall Terry and the others outside a Hospice, where people are dying, and yelling into that bullhorn and spouting his hate filled rhetoric and stirring up the crowd...that is not the face of compassionate conservatism, pro life or Christianity that we want out there.
Regardless of how people feel about the Terri situation, there are other people to consider here. Like those people who are spending their last days on earth listening to bullhorns and people screaming the worst sort of things at our policemen. They are calling our policemen Nazis!
And the unborn will be affected too because I think this has set the movement back 20 years. And so how many babies won't have a chance at life because Randall Terri exploited the Schindlers and this entire situation for his own quest for power.
I have been so grieved that the other considerations have been taken into account and I'd personally like to tear his eyelashes out one by one.
Over here!
Eggs Ackley!
Tell me, Peach, since you're so passionately against Randall Terry--what would have been your reaction if a thousand quiet men had shown up bearing water and forced their way through the barricade?
Ah, if only I'd lived long enough to see that...
I'm glad JJ won't be allowed in.
Instead, it was made up of kind, loving, giving, rational folks who loved life, God, their families and most of all their freedom.
Sadly,
RT is just the type of wackaloon that the Left wants the world to see conservatives as being. The other side could not create a character as ludicrous and out of touch with reality as he appears to be. So we are losing a lot of ground that has been gained because of all the ugliness that has been exhibited by the 'good guys' (ack!)
Granted, I have my own opinions about the situation. There are folks I would love to slap silly, things I wish weren't happening, but I am also sitting here trying to see what can be learned and gained.
But what is happening in Florida has become an embarrassment. It's a circus. A sad, disturbing, bizarre, mean-spirited circus.
Well said Peach. Very well said.