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To: Rambi who wrote (109222)	4/18/2009 11:11:37 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540820

Of course it does. It's their children and if they want to pass on the value of life and how it's wrong to kill or decapitate a baby, they're free to do so. If they were holding signs of cute fuzzy baby seals being butchered to death, and shouting baby seal killers across the bay to a bunch of club holders would you think differently? I wouldn't expose my kids to either kind of ugliness so soon in life, but that's my personal decision as a parent. Unfortunately, the school system doesn't always share my values and exposes them to all kinds of things like baby seals being butchered. In a free society protesting is allowed, provided it's done within the confines of the law. In a factual sense, the signs are accurate. Planned parenthood supports the taking of human life via a process called abortion. The life they're taking is a baby. They also support the decapitation of a baby via a process known as partial birth abortion. What's strange is why a tax exempt church, designed to support prayer and religious worship would be supporting them. And why members of the church would want planned parenthood to set up a booth on church grounds to engender support for their cause. To each his own, but as Obama's mentor once said, "maybe the chickens are coming home to roost"?

To: Rambi who wrote (109222)	4/18/2009 12:35:09 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 540820

I don't think anyone should give a child a sign that has images on it that are harmful to a child's development, and which would give them nightmares. Nuclear weapons abound, but even if I disagreed with them (which I don't) I wouldn't give my children a sign with dying irradiated people on it to carry around. I think it's fine to take children to marches- but you've got to use some common sense, which obviously certain people do not have. I'd say there are people on both sides who are pretty abusive in the way they use their children. My goodness, I remember that movie "Jesus Camp"- watching those poor children was just sad. There are things that upset children, and things that don't- and kind parents don't expose their children needlessly to the things which will trouble their dreams. Adults are free to manufacture a hell out of this world for themselves, but I see no reason for good parents to do it for their children- not even in preparation for a better world to come.