So, you would limit the association of those whose morality disagrees with yours, but you would deny Nellie the same right?
Whether or not I agreed with her decision, it was her right to make it. If she doesn't want her march tainted with the sin of homosexuality, she is no less correct defending that than if she doesn't want it tainted with the sin of the Klan.
Shalom.
No. I said nothing about morality. Sorry, I thought it was implicit in my response that those who trample on the Constitution and Bills of Rights (felons, terrorists and Klansmen, for example) have no place at the March for Life, for obvious reasons.
"...but you would deny Nellie the same right? "
Is it her right?
The first sentence on the March for Life homepage reads: The MARCH FOR LIFE is the collective effort of grassroots prolife Americans to assure that our laws protect the right to life of each human being. Plagal is grassroots, prolife, and American. What's the problem, here? Why can't they be welcomed with the caveat, applying to all participants -- straight, gay, or liberal Democrat, that especially because the March includes so many youngsters and conservative Christians, any overt sexuality doesn't belong.
Nowhere on the Website is the March referred to as the: Nellie Gray March for Life. Ms. Gray doesn't own the March. It is a tax-exempt non-profit and therefore owes a modicum of tolerance toward law-abiding, tax-paying Americans who wish to peacefully participate in a march on their own Nation's Capital.
Listen, Argee, I wish all openly, flagrantly gay men and women would go back into their, no doubt, tastefully appointed, cedar-lined closets and stay there. What they do together in those closets I don't want to know. (I don't even want to think about...)
But they, and other atypical pro-life organizations, have an important place in the pro-life mainstream for reasons that benefit our cause and therefore the unborn.
First, they break the false stereotype of pro-lifer as right-wing, fundamentalist Christian male trying to foist his religious morality on poor, helpless women (by bombing clinics, of course.) Gay men tend not to be Baptists and most feminists are not men. This narrow stereotype has been an enormous handycap as it allows pro-aborts and the complicit media to portray all pro-lifers as one isolated group of fanatics to be dismissed or preferably jailed.
Shunning gay, feminist and atheist pro-life organizations only supports the notion of pro-lifer as Morality Cop. This is very bad PR in a very wicked PR war waged by NOW, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, et al.
I could go on and on, obviously. We may have to agree to disagree, but I enjoy the thread!