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[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

I don't disagree that it seems that most folks on the so-called "christian right" tend to be anti-abortion, pro-war and pro-death penalty while finding no issue with torture...that has NOTHING to do with the issue...don't damn the issue because certain folks tend to take a specific stand. They may well be against freedom for women...you'll have to take that up with them. I can only speak for myself...I'm not christian, don't support war, torture or the death penalty and certainly don't, as a feminist, want to in any way restrict a woman's freedom to make decisions. You still are focusing on the messenger and not the message!

Well on this tangent, the messenger is of the utmost importance. In the bigger picture of what I talked about in my last post, the people saying it are absolutely to be focused on.

Because if their entire point is a claim of concern for life when talking about whatever-you-want-to-call-it at conception, yet they simultaneously show a flagrant disregard for life (and in some ways, seem to even take joy in actively supporting the destruction of life) in so many other areas -- it's not really out of bounds to come to the conclusion that it has nothing to do with life, and everything to do with controlling women.

Perhaps your position on the subject is more noble than those disingenuous folks I've just finished describing (and it comes from a different place...one I don't agree with, but the premise is more noble), but sadly for you -- your lot is cast with them. And as long as they keep acting like bonafide, anti-woman degenerates, your points all get lost in translation.