[Yaelle]

What is the worst thing that can happen to you on this earth? If you have not had a child, maybe your answer would be torture or something. If you've had a child, the answer is set in stone. Your child dying is the worst thing that can ever happen. Who among us wants to be publicly judged, nay, mocked, on their behavior when the absolute worst has happened to you? Anyone even discussing this issue as if it has two sides is cruel.

[Hacklehead]

You cannot be a good liberal unless you are a vicious monster.

[Albion Wilde]

[Antoninus]

In Alan Colmes's world, the proper response to a pregnancy that ends in the death of the baby is to throw the body in the trash.

And yet, we're supposed to think Santorum is creepy...

[RavenATB]

If anything about this can possibly be amusing, it's the fact that out of all the TV “talking heads” I know, if someone walked up to me and described the entire event and asked me who would be so despicable as to say something like that (without giving me any hints), my immediate answer would have been, “Alan Colmes.”

After watching and listening to this maggot lie and distort facts, talk over everyone who challenges him on factual matters, and attack every aspect of traditional America, there is absolutely nothing horrifying or despicable Colmes could say that would come as a surprise to me.

[loveliberty2]

A slightly different perspective on the Colmes outburst:

Alan Colmes' comments on how the Santorums viewed the birth and physical death of their son, Gabriel, may be repulsive, but they are revealing of a deeper void in understanding and indicate the shallow body of thought from which they came.

The Santorums loved the child they knew was being formed inside her body, even before they saw it, and to allow their children, who also looked for its arrival, to see the previously "unseen" gave each of those children the kind of reverence for life they will never forget.

Perhaps that child, who was conceived in love, whose body was created by the great Giver of life, and whose soul returned to its Creator after only a short time, may have served the divine purpose for which it was created in just those few short hours. Even now, its life takes on new meaning, as it becomes part of the current political dialogue.

Psalm 139:

"Verse 13: You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous--and how well I know it.
15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
16 You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
17 How precious are your thoughts about me,[b] O God! They are innumerable!
18 I can't even count them;
they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up in the morning, you are still with me!
. . . .
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts.
24 Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting." - NLT

So-called "progressive" thought is not as "progressive" as those who are its advocates believe. Views which would limit the natural loving actions of individuals in a family toward loving, embracing and saying goodbye to a new member in the way which is most desirable to that family are not "progressive" at all.

Gabriel was a loved soul, both by his Creator and by his earth family. His life and death now have a meaning that many who have lived to be 90 may not have achieved.

[KosmicKitty]

And the silky pony laid on the morgue slab with his dead kid and held him.

Shell-less turtle is an idiot who knows nothing about grief or how people deal with it!

[chessplayer]

The filth is still on his website. So much for his “apology.”

http://www.alan.com/2012/01/02/santorum-flashback/

[nutmeg]

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