Not caring on the outside may be a facade. A very effective facade.
When holding up pro-life signs for the Life Chain I noticed that the people who saw us usually had one of 3 reactions: they honked and put their thumbs up to show support, or they flipped us the bird, or they stared forward so they wouldn’t have to see any of it.
The people I prayed for so much were the ones who stared ahead. They weren’t hiding behind anger and belligerence like the others; they had made it to a deeper point in the grieving process - a place where healing can begin.
Wanna know what’s sad? When Wendy Davis was belligerent the pro-aborts loved her. Once she shared her story of aborting a child with a handicap - trying to put a nuanced human face on the issue - it became uncomfortable for the pro-aborts. It’s always easier to flip the bird than it is to stare straight ahead. It’s more fun and energizing to be with people who are out flipping the bird than it is to be with those who are staring straight ahead.
But the ones who are staring straight ahead are the ones who are on the verge of healing. I pray that God pulls them through the rest of that painful process - including both mother and daughter in this story. And I pray that Wendy Davis is one of them who makes it through the process forgiven, and with her humanity restored.
The unconcerned demeanor is one we are trained to adopt in public situations from signs people hold to questions in a job interview-our public persona, we all have one-some, like the ahead looking people you describe-many of whom are motivated by nothing more than the fact that they really are disconnected and uncaring people-the kind most of us don’t care to know.
If someone at the local flea market has even an Obama or a pro-choice bumper sticker, the safety of their vehicle is by no means assured-flat tires and keying happens-country people aren’t at all tolerant of liberals, and don’t care if they don’t spend their money here...
Davis, AKA abortion Barbie wouldn’t have the sympathy of most women even if she had never had an abortion, because she is a gold digger who was screwing around with an older well off man while married to her first husband-he married her and put her through law school-she was not the “hard working single mother” as she first claimed. After she’d had a kid by him and law school was paid for, hubby #2 got dumped in his turn as soon as she got her bar card.
She also left her kid with everyone from her mother and her husband #1 for months while she was screwing around with husband #2. Her kids do not choose to live with her, either-sympathy, my ass...
As an attorney, she went off in court a few years ago then filed an unsuccessful lawsuit after her antics were made public for slander-so she is also a loose cannon, and no doubt emotionally unstable...