Posted on 06/22/2013 7:41:56 AM PDT by IbJensen
All right, hear me out! The tide has turned. After decades of resistance, the latest polls show that a slight majority of Americans have now changed their opinions on the issue. It is only a matter of time before it will be resolved. Let’s face it, the tide has turned. Youth are all going in favor. The only ones on the other side are the older generations. State legislatures are changing the laws. It is time to get modern. These people should have the right to live a normal life. They should later have the right to get married, adopt and raise a family! The tide has turned. It is futile to resist. Let’s get on the right side of history!
The issue I am referring to is, of course…abortion. A recent Gallup poll now says that 53% of Americans, many of them young, identify themselves as “pro-life.” If ever there was a dramatic turnaround against all odds, abortion is that issue. If ever the tide has turned, this is one not to be missed.
But the media, ever ready to report dramatic news, have little enthusiasm for this breaking story. They yawn with indifference at the droves of young women marching for life and relish every word of aging feminists parroting their worn-out slogans.
But all this is to be expected. It has long been a favorite tactic of the left to engage in selective tide-watching. Whenever a liberal cause gains some traction in public opinion, the media are all aquiver with expectations of turning tides.
When 31 states passed constitutional amendments in support of traditional marriage, there were yawns aplenty and no talk of rising tides. But when three liberal states narrowly voted for same-sex “marriage” and two others rammed it through their legislatures, the trend became an overwhelming tsunami incapable of being resisted.
The problem is that so many “tides have turned” only to return like real tides. Many times an issue will seem “settled” only to find public opinion return to moral principles and rekindle the debate in the opposite direction. As the abortion debate has proven, not even the Supreme Court can turn tides.
At times, the left will declare the tide has turned and then abandon the issue when the tide returns. At other times, the left will simply ignore the returning tide and shout all the louder, surrounded by the rushing sea, insisting the tide has turned despite all evidence to the contrary.
The tide supposedly turned with the “theory/dogma” of evolution, yet a majority of Americans still believe in creation. There was a time when it seemed the “peak oil” theory was gaining traction, but the ecological left is now silenced by a world awash in fracked oil. Even the famous global warming theory seems to be in trouble as more and more Americans have chilling doubts about it. Such tides have hardly turned.
The lesson to be learned is that, although statesmen must be concerned about public opinion, these issues are not decided by such a fickle factor but upon sound moral and scientific principles and facts. No one builds upon the beach but upon firm foundations away from the raging tides and shifting sands. Why is it not this way with burning moral issues? Let them be decided upon the firm foundation of moral principles and a natural moral law that does not change as both favor the common good. Tides go in and out. Principles and morals endure forever.
Babies, animals, baby seals. America: get your priorities straight!
Most uninformed, unwashed, tattooed, pierced, long-haired mental midgets and trough-fed limousine progressives forget that the Democrat Party is the party of death, lying, cheating, taxes, monolithic strangling government whose TITular head is an intelligence-starved failure of a phony, embracing illegals at the expense of the citizens who were born here and have been sucked dry by the nation's tax collectors. When the dummies re-elected Obama and Biden they also re-elected all his buddies who run and ruin our lives and our nation.
On the other hand, we have the Republicans who are all members of a party in its death throes. A force from the right must get organized and send these weasels packing.
For decades the democrats have been active while the GOP has been reactive.
And the red, blue and yellow parts are printed in water soluble ink so it can be quickly rinsed into a white flag.
The GOP leadership makes me sick on all issues of Principle and Morals.
I used to believe that all the Pro-Life side had to do to win the hearts and minds of people would be to pepper them with images of the 4-D ultrasounds of the unborn baby. For awhile, GE was running commercials on tv showing just that. It went on for a very short time, and then gone. Obviously, the Lefties running the Show pulled the plug.
Now we have women (not many, fortunately) getting publicity for stating very clearly that they know that what is growing inside a pregnant woman is a HUMAN BABY. These women just don’t care, for it’s their “sacred ground” to do as they please to that baby even after a botched abortion. That should be enough ammo to shoot down these crazy people’s pro-abortion irrationality putting those comments on the airways. Just hammer away at the hearts & minds & consciences of the young people. A day of Reckoning is coming.
You say that like the Republican party is any better, but if they were an opposition party
then they would fight against these issued, but they do not, so it must be acknowledged that they are not in opposition to the Democrat party.
I always love the argument of those who behave as if people are ideological stone especially young people. If we had listened to the defeatists concerning abortion post roe-v-wade abortion providers would be on every corner. There is one reason that college educated and others tend to be more liberal and it is because of the culture they are immersed in. Its not because of great persuasive arguments. The reason prolife has achieved an edge is because it is an issue that conservatives continue to fight for. Traditional marriage and opposition to deviant normalcy however has been something that conservative media especially is not activist enough. There are some good things I’m seeing. The marriage movement is becoming more organized, minorities are becoming more involved as we saw in Illinois where black and Hispanic pastors joined in the conservative coalition to stop ssm in a state that had a Democrat supermajority, conscience laws are going to gain momentum, and the overstepping on the gay marriage issue with political correctness is beginning to cause backlash.
Those that claim this issue is inevitable have no sense of history. Being gay is not like race no matter how much it is insisted and though some are retreating the important thing is the increasing resolve of those who are organizing and changing the face of the debate. Its going to mean that we have to stop letting stupid young conservatives and neoconservatives who parrot non conservative gay propaganda go uncorrected. We can’t let ourselves be silenced and really that is the key with this issue.
Traditional marriage has outperformed the GOP every where it has come to a vote and the only reason ssm and gay normalcy has gained traction is because of 90% of the media pushing it as a positive. That the issue isn’t entirely lost and is pretty much an even split nationally suggests that this issue is not inevitable unless of course we just surrender which is what they are trying to force with political correctness and calling anyone who disagrees ‘haters’ but we are pushing back against this and we may not win outright but we can keep them from winning especially in the South and Midwest.
yeah the tide has turned on the anti tattoo movement also, now I see everybody has a tattoo, or multiple tattoos, sickening and ugly.
Young girls have big huge holes in their ears, tongue jewelry, tattoos, yech.......
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Not necessarily trying to be argumentative here, but it has been my perception that this has been the case for a long time. Abortion is not nearly as universally supported as people think that it is.
If you asked people if they thought it was good that we were killing millions of unborn each year, they would generally say no. That figure approaches 70% in some reports I've seen.
The important question to ask then, is how we reduce those numbers significantly.
If we don't support it, and as a people we don't, what should we be doing to bring those numbers way down?
I’m with you. If I want an art pad, I’ll pick one up at the local stationary store, not as a possible love interest.
Mutilation? Not the slightest bit interested.
“if they were an “opposition party” then they would fight against these issued, but they do not”
Attempting to take a page from the democrat playbook, I suppose.
But what has worked well for leftists will not work for conservatives, who seem desperate in their obsession to go down in flames trying.
They have the truth on their side and can’t seem to buy a clue as to how to present it.
So they pander to the fringes instead [who would NEVER, EVER consider voting for them anyway], while believing they’ll keep the base waiting in the wings.
That makes sense; it explains Romney.
“it explains Romney”
Way more than just Romney. Unfortunately.
>> “it explains Romney”
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> Way more than just Romney. Unfortunately.
True, but listing out other things will probably make me angry.
I haven’t been a dues paying member of the Republicrat Party for years. I am a proud member of the Monarchist Party.
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