There are several hundred thousand such groups in the U.S. I am taking into account the basement and garage sects.
“For you to say, without research,”
I did the research years ago.
“to go out on a shaky limb.”
Everything I said was true.
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Somehow, I do not follow. If I give you the “hundreds of thousands” figure, for the sake of argument (and you may well be correct), then how do you so confidently say that a *majority* of these entities ‘officially’ support abortion? I rather believe that most of them are staunchly anti-abortion — especially in the case of the innumerable the garage and store-front operations.
Also, please do not “add on” the Birth Control red herring. We were talking abortion. Let’s keep it to abortion, even though Birth Control is certainly a topic worthy of discussion. Remember: Most Protestants view sex outside of marriage as a sin, so the Birth Control issue — for them — is a matter between a man and his wife. Moreover, it does not follow that a married Protestant couple that uses birth control then by default resorts to abortion when pregnancy happens. Quite the contrary in the vast majority of cases, I would confidently aver. Still and all, I would prefer that fornicators and adulterers resort to condoms or the pill in the firm belief that this will result in less abortions down the road.
Finally, as to this gem of bigotry, “I don’t believe Protestant anti-Catholics are capable of being even-handed,” I will not even deign to grace it with a reply. ;-)
” If I give you the “hundreds of thousands” figure, for the sake of argument (and you may well be correct), then how do you so confidently say that a *majority* of these entities ‘officially’ support abortion?”
Because by their teaching they do.
“Also, please do not “add on” the Birth Control red herring. We were talking abortion.”
They go together. I will continue to speak about both since they cannot logically be separated in terms of mentality, morality, history, law, science, religion of common sense.
“I will not even deign to grace it with a reply.”
What I said was true so it doesn’t matter if you reply or not.