I'm just saying to those who would
make RU486 illegal and who defend the Global Gag Rule, get off our backs with
your religion and any of its wildly, abusively intrusive, irrational, inhumane, and
specifically religious rules; this is as much our country as it is yours.
Which is a fine position for you to take.
As long as you understand that they are saying back "get off our backs with your atheism, and its denial of human life and its demands that we pay our tax dollars to support the murder of innocent children and create death and misery throughout the world."
Let us assume -- I have no reason to suppose that he will, but let us assume -- that Bush were to start using federal tax dollars to support African health centers that advised parents to engage in infant female genital mutilation, and funded those operations. I'm assuming (I'm hoping) that you find that practice, traditional though it may be, as appalling as I do. Then suppose that a more liberal president were elected who stopped funding any clinic that advocated infant female genital mutilation. Would you oppose that as a "Gag rule" and demand that the funding be restored? I doubt it. I hope not.
It all depends on whose ox is being gored, and whose principles are being violated.
I know that you don't believe that the unborn child is a full human being. That's fine. But I do think you need to understand the point of view of those who do, and respect that they are following their beliefs just as you are following yours.
Whose are right? We really don't know. We're all guessing here. |
