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To: nicmarlo

I’m sure they wouldn’t mind if Planned Parenthood interrupted their prayer breakfast at Ryan’s Steakhouse. :p

I’m pro-life all the way, but being rude bullies changes no hearts. It only hardens them.


91 posted on 01/13/2008 2:49:00 PM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: Constantine XIII
I’m pro-life all the way, but being rude bullies changes no hearts. It only hardens them.

That is an "argument" altogether different than what one is "allowed," pursuant to the Bill of Rights, to do. I think "being rude bullies" may likely have negative effects, and for that reason, I would not, personally, take part in such a protest of that kind.

But what I choose to do is not what everyone chooses; and I would not force MY OWN "politeness" on others, just as I would not have others force theirs onto me.

101 posted on 01/13/2008 2:53:34 PM PST by nicmarlo (I hereby declare my support for Duncan Hunter. 1/10/08; late to the party, but I have arrived!)
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To: Constantine XIII

“I’m sure they wouldn’t mind if Planned Parenthood interrupted their prayer breakfast at Ryan’s Steakhouse. :p
I’m pro-life all the way, but being rude bullies changes no hearts. It only hardens them.”

Every post on your side of this argument contains an implicit assumption of an equivalence between the two sides.

They are not equivalent.

This is a fight between good and evil. Evil does not deserve courtesy or consideration. Good does.

It is a moral good for pro-lifers to disrupt the rites of the baby killers. It is a moral evil for baby killers to...well, to do anything in the cause of baby killing.

Good and evil — not morally equivalent.


119 posted on 01/13/2008 3:01:23 PM PST by dsc
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To: Constantine XIII

Amen.

And being rude bullies raises lots of money to fund pro-abortion candidates.

Dumb, when there’s no upside except harassing a failing candidate.


154 posted on 01/13/2008 3:17:26 PM PST by fightinJAG ("Tell the truth. The Pajama People are watching you.")
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