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Posted on 11/13/2004 10:51:31 AM PST by churchillbuff
Edited on 11/13/2004 11:52:36 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The deluge of teeth-gnashing, hair-pulling grief-tormented hysteria washing over every liberal media outlet in the Milky Way Galaxy has reached a high-water mark with space-patrol talk about secession – as in the Kerry-voting "blue" states actually seceding from the United States. Here's Geraldine Ferraro fomenting on Fox's "Hannity & Colmes" Nov. 6:
You know what? Just let me make one point. You were talking about the map before. If indeed all those blue states all got together and seceded from the union, think what would be left for those red states, nothing. There would be no educational system. You would have nothing. What would be left to you? I mean, where is all of this talent in this country? It's on both sides, the Northeast corridor.
We can shake our heads in laughable wonder at this and gloat about BDDs – Brain Dead Democrats. But their maniacally empty threat is a gift, as it creates a marvelous "teachable moment" whereby the LibDems can learn a lesson about their moral values.
Recall that it was Democrats who seceded the last time from America, in 1861. They were in full righteous fury defending the morality of slavery. Throughout the Confederate States, slavery was known as "the peculiar institution," with the moral right to own human beings as personal property unquestioned and believed in with fanatical zeal. Just like abortion in the blue states today.
Shocked that "moral values" was the issue that defeated them and re-elected President Bush, the LibDems are bleating on every airwave they can ride that they have moral values, too. Yes, they certainly do – it's just that some of those values are immoral, but not all. Confederate Southerners held many decent values – but on slavery they were morally wrong. No relativistic morals here, no "that's just your opinion" situational ethics, no wiggles, hesitations or qualifiers. Slavery is immoral, period – even the LibDems agree.
Thus the teachable moment – for abortion is morally no different than slavery, the claim that one human being may own another as personal property to be disposed of if the owner so chooses.
Thus we need to refer to abortion as "the peculiar institution," and Roe v. Wade as disgracefully unconstitutional as Dred Scott. Watch for this to happen. Watch for abortion advocates to be increasingly on the defensive as they are made to understand the moral equivalence between abortion and slavery.
This is a struggle that is going to get a lot uglier before it gets better. It will not, however, lead to any sort of secession or civil war. It requires no violence, just relentless repetition of this moral equivalence, as it finally begins to dawn on liberals that history will come to view advocacy of abortion as morally repugnant as advocacy of slavery.
Conservatives are on the verge of seizing the high ground of history on abortion. Arlen Specter -- Arrogant Arlen -- is groveling before them. Clarence Thomas will be the next chief justice. More and more politicians will see it safe to jump on the abortion=slavery bandwagon. Soon, the blood seeping from a wounded Roe v. Wade will be in the water, the feeding frenzy will be on and the constitutionally non-existent "right to privacy" chewed to shreds. The day is not that far off when school kids will be asking their history teacher puzzled questions as to how there was a time in America when people passionately defended the morality of a mother killing her own baby.
The dark chapter of America's peculiar institution of abortion is coming to an end.
bttt
Same reason they burn down their own homes and set their cars on fire when the local sports team win
They are ignorant morons that don't understand anything but their whining infantile way of thinking.
They don't know how to communicate like normal people, just release the rage of their own ignorance's
As a devout pro lifer I would much rather fight this battle directly in every state. While I am realistic enough to recognize we may end up with a hodgepodge of abortion laws throughout the country, we can at least make our voices heard and possibly convince enough people to either limit or outright outlaw most abortions. What the supreme court did was make it a right and remove it from our ability to lobby against it.
It's actually much easier to explain what slavery is to a young child than it is to explain what abortion is. Try telling an 8 year old child what abortion means when he/she asks. "Well kid --- the mother changed her mind about her baby and wants to kill it" or "Some mothers don't want their baby and want to have it killed" "Why you ask? well it might cost them money or they don't want to bother with their baby". There is no easy nice way to answer the question of what abortion is.
Very interesting. Thanks!
NO! We need to refer to it as what it really is ...murder of children.
I don't think so --- today's generations more and more are the abortion survivors --- the offspring of mothers who wouldn't abort them. Liberals are committing a type of Darwinism on themselves.
Here is some more good reading
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1278814/posts
bttt
Killing innocent babies is worse than slavery.
Just what I keep thinking.
In the Middle Ages, people killed cats in the most horrific ways, in the mistaken belief that they were witches' familiars. The Black Death then came and wiped out 3/4 of the population of Europe in two pandemics. It wasn't until people began to appreciate cats that the cats killed the rats and stopped the spread of the plague.
If God's punishment for killing cats was so harsh, what will the punishment be for killing our children?
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I hope so. Love the analogy to slavery. It's so right!
That sure does look puurrrrty. And red is my best color!
First off most of the "Blue States" are not all blue, they are islands of blue in a sea of red so if those islands want to go let them try, but only those islands. We can quarantine those islands till we starve them out, then send their sorry traitorous @$$e$ all to France, Quebec, or some other "Utopian people`s republic", GOOD RIDDENCE to bad rubbish!
Roe V. Wade will NOT be overturned. This is NOT what this election was about. If you want a real civil war in this Country, or if you want people running like the wind from the Republican party, just keep this up. You are not in the majority, even in your party, so stop pretending that you are. I said this on another thread GO START YOUR OWN DAMN POLITICAL PARTY and leave mine out of it. You do not represent the majority of the Republican party, do you hear us? DO YOU?
With 45 million dead and counting methinks something worse than a civil war has already befallen us. The "peculiar institution" of abortion is wholly evil. No political party other than the most uncivil would allow it to stand.
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Not some guy in a black robe telling everyone in fifty states telling how they should all lives their lives like he says.
Then most everyone can find a state that is more in line with there views instead of forcing a one size fits all on them.
I think this was the original idea to start with.
Thing is, the moral relativists are living on the reserves of a republic built by those who generally accepted the opposite view. Inalieable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were assumed as endowments from the Creator. It was never questioned because of the firm moral bedrock, rooted in Judeo-Christian principles, on which it rested.
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