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Posted on 12/27/2008 6:59:14 PM PST by lightman
The perfect present: Abortion gift card
RICHARD CLEARY
Updated: 12/22/2008 08:02:57 AM EST
It's long been the case in the U.S. that different groups of people choose to celebrate different aspects of the Christmas story. Merchants, of course, celebrate the giving of gifts by the Magi to the Christ child because the symbolism encourages shoppers to knock themselves out making the cash registers ring.
Secular humanists celebrate the notion of good will toward men, even though they're hard-pressed to articulate a cogent reason why anyone should feel all warm and tingly toward anyone, much less complete strangers, in a godless, empty universe.
Christians celebrate the wonder of the creator of the universe becoming one of us in order to sacrifice himself for us in our lostness.
Yet, until now, there's been one aspect of the Christmas story that never gets celebrated -- the slaughter of the innocents. King Herod, you'll recall, exercised his sovereignty over the children of Bethlehem by having everyone under the age of 2 put to the sword so that he wouldn't have to suffer a competitor to his throne.
Now comes word that in what certainly appears to be a celebration of Herod's exercise of his right as sovereign king to choose the deaths of those children, the Indiana Planned Parenthood affiliates are selling gift certificates this Christmas season which can be used for, inter alia, procuring an abortion.
It happens that lots of people are disgusted by this, but I think it's the perfect gift to celebrate that part of the Christmas narrative, Herod's infanticide, which rarely gets much positive recognition.
Think for a moment of the happiness these certificates will bring in the days following Christmas. Young, expectant mommies who need to unburden themselves of an unwanted or inconvenient pregnancy will delight in the gift, as will young men on the verge of panic at having sired a child.
Abortionists whose skills at ending nascent lives are inversely proportional to the compunctions of their consciences will continue to enrich themselves plying their ugly trade, and Planned Parenthood itself, a business which profits handsomely from dismembering children, will continue to rake in the cash. It won't have been such a happy Christmas for the child itself, but as anyone can tell you, the child is just a blob of tissue and doesn't count.
Indiana Planned Parenthood should be lauded for doing their part to make this an especially blessed and meaningful holiday season and for carrying on a wonderfully Herodian Christmas tradition.
Richard Cleary, a retired Dallastown Area High School science teacher who currently teaches philosophy at several area colleges, generally writes on topics that lie at the intersection of politics, philosophy, religion and science. Read his blog atwww.wscleary.com/pov/home where this column first appeared.
Christ is Born, Glorify Him!
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What an insane country this is: Planned Parenthood gift cards on sale in Indiana and the US government “befriending” Afghani tribal chieftains by giving them Viagra pills.
The disgusting actions of Planned Parenthood are memorialized in song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVmJdCHU0zo
Is there any historical evidence for Herod’s slaughter of the innocents? Besides the bible, that is.
...I am reminded that we yet have hope.
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Just when you think things have gone as low as possible, you find that the hole has been dug even deeper.
If they had been available in 1960, I can think of an ideal recipient.
Why should the Bible be discounted?
(Everything we know of Herod from other sources suggests he was perfectly capable of the act, since he murdered family members, including his own sons, on slight excuses and without apparent remorse.)
good piece.
Thanks for reposting this. What a sick way to celebrate Christmas. This was on FR earlier this month, because I heard Rush talking about it on his morning update and during his show.
Here are three threads, dating back to Dec. 1, 2008 as well.
Planned Parenthood Gift Certificates Make Controversial Stocking Stuffers(News Video)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2143283/posts
Planned Parenthood Gift Certificates Could Be Used for Deadly Purposes (IL, IN)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143062/posts
Talk About The End Of Civilization: Christmas Gift Certificates For Abortions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2141125/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=gift%20certificates
And may their number. by the grace of God, increase.
Christ is born! Glorify him!
Orthodox Christians call the Holy Theotokos the Mother of Life. Planned Parenthood, as usual, goes in entirely the opposite direction!!!!
Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger, an atheist and an advocate of negative eugenics. Later in the 20th century, the eugenics movement became the core of Nazism, and led to all the horrors of the Nazis. The early Nazi forced sterilization of the “unfit” led to the Holocaust against the Jews, and to labeling of other groups (e.g., Serbs, Poles, and Russians) as as “subhumans” as well. Pro-abortion activists and politicians should own up to their despicable Nazi connections, and to their equally despicable New World connections as well!!!!
The issuance of “gift cards” for Planned Parenthood’s “services” at this time of year is a direct result of the society’s supplanting the Nativity of Christ with “Holiday”, the annual potlatch. This time of economic chaos (which was brought about in large part by the overarching greed and disdain for human life of the NWO higher-ups) is being used by many as a stimulus to return to Christmas/Nativity as a time to emphasize faith and renewal rather than material things.
The entire “gift-card” economy must by repudiated, and especially the antichrist, anti-life, and anti-human “gift cards” of Planned Parenthood!!!!
The best thing that we can do is go and walk back and forth in front of a Planned Parenthood and pray. I always ask God to change the minds of the girls who are coming to get an abortion so that they can love their baby.
Prayer is the only thing that will shut down these killing houses.
As long as this democracy keeps (re)electing pro-abortionist candidates the abortion is here to stay.
I attended the high school where the writer of this article taught. During the school year the teachers would take turns reading a morning “thought for the day”. His were always among the very best. I see by his writing that nothing has changed. I wonder if he has written any books.
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