A Bad Samaritan?
A Bad Samaritan?
How many unwed pregnant mothers has Annie Laurie Gaylor helped?
Just a Few of the Many Mothers and Babies Saved by CareNet
.Most recently, Gaylor condemns the good Samaritan Care Net, which does help unwed pregnant mothers– a need Gaylor herself apparently does not realize is important in our society.
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Gaylor and the FFRF (Freedom From Religion Foundation) not only abandon unwed mothers, but want the government to take sides on the abortion question– THEIR side. And Isthmus is facilitating.
Isthmus just featured Gaylor’s (and FFRF’s) opposition to a Wisconsin government website listing of the Christian pregnancy care center (Care Net) under family resources.
In the article, Isthmus quotes Gaylor extensively, yet fails to cover the opposing view. Isthmus also facilitates Gaylor’s misportrayal of the faith based Care Net as incompetent and unsafe, without any facts to support this claim.
Bucky Badger leads Hundreds of Care Net Supporters in Walk for Life
Care Net is actually very competent, very safe, and is supported by numerous groups in Madison, including religious ones. It is one of Madison’s proudest inter-faith endeavors, with a proud history of helping unfortunate women to take charge of rebuilding their lives. Our family has been involved in fundraising for CareNet over the years, and participating organizations have included numerous area Christian churches (including our Catholic church), the Princeton Club, Oscar Mayer, the Mallards, Relevant Radio Madison, Bucky Badger and Oremus Catholic Rock, to name just a few.
America is split on the issue of abortion– is abortion a fundamental women’s right, or is it the murder of a human being? The truth cannot be both ways. Although Supreme Court Justices may have ruled for abortion, our society is still strongly divided, and the laws are not even consistant. A murderer who kills a pregnant woman is legally guilty of two murders, yet if that woman were on her way to Planned Parenthood for an abortion, apparently for her, this would not constitute murder at present.
Relevant Radio, Mallards and Oremus Support Care Net
FFRF is group of extremist atheist radicals representing less than 0.003 of 1 % of America. Isthmus has repeatedly featured them favorably, while the views of America’s mainstream (80% Christian) majority, are not promoted. FFRF is not even representative of American ATHEISTS, most of whom are quite tolerant of Christian America, and who have no problem with Christians freely exercising their religion, just as most Christians have no problem with atheists exercising their beliefs.
Isthmus quotes pro-choice leaders as though they represented all women– “This fits right in with the new governor’s and new Legislature’s anti-choice and anti-women views.” Problem is, women are
More Care Net Supporters in Madison: FFRF not represented
split on the abortion question (as are all Americans), and Isthmus should be able to mention those facts. Pro-choice leaders have no right to claim they are representing all women, and an unbiased journalist would point this out.
In fact, although Americans (and women) seem closely split when asked “pro-life?” or “pro-choice?,” there is actually no split when the question is rephrased more explicitly. Gallup shows that the number of Americans believing that abortion is morally wrong outnumber the number who think it is morally right (Americans 51% vs 39%, with women also 51% vs 39%). When asked whether abortion should be permitted under few/no circumstances versus under any/most circumstances, the pro-lifers win again, with 61% vs 37% for all Americans, and 60% vs 37% for women.
Mom and Baby Saved by Care Net
So when the question is phrased more explicitly, our entire culture, whether we poll all Americans or American women, comes out 2/3 pro-life and 1/3 pro-choice.
Numerous national women leaders are also pro-life, including members of the Susan B. Anthony List , a pro-life organization named after a woman who realized that “authentic women’s rights could never be built upon the broken rights of innocent unborn children.”
So when Gaylor and FFRF want Care Net links (which help pregnant women keep their babies and helps them to raise these future citizens) removed from government websites, Isthmus provides the mouthpiece. No mention of the fact that Gaylor and FFRF don’t seem to have a problem when government promotes the opposing side, for example by funding abortion through Planned Parenthood.
- FFRF is inconsistent, and is not practicing the tolerance towards America’s religious majority, the tolerance that America’s religious majority practices toward FFRF.
- FFRF wants its own (minority) beliefs promoted by government.
- FFRF claims injustice and sues each time atheism is not enforced in the public sphere.
- FFRF continues to lose numerous frivolous claims in court.
Angry atheists should find something better to do with their time, and Isthmus should not rush to be FFRF’s mouthpiece.
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Freedom From Religion
Freedom From Religion Labors On
FFRF- Jousting at Windmills
Religion and the U.S. Military
Syte Reitz grew up in Queens, New York, in a family of Lithuanian immigrants who fled Nazi and Soviet domination during World War II. Her education includes a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, and post-doctoral work at Princeton University. Syte left her job as an Assistant Professor at Oakland University, Michigan, to devote herself to raising her children, and ultimately homeschooled them through the end of high school. She is a member of Madison's Cathedral Parish.
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The issue here is that we have a secular government guided by a secular Constitution. A neutral stance would be to provide links to both Care Net and Planned Parenthood. Abortion is only one of an array of options Planned Parenthood provides unwed pregnant women. And the public funding it receives does not go toward funding abortions. If you ever bothered to take a look at how PP segregates its funds you’d see this to be true. You Christian pro-lifers would love a country where people are denied access to a legal abortion and birth control, hence stripping people of their right to choose. Imposing your faith on others is un-American and is contrary to the tolerance Jesus preached. In my view, you’re not far removed from Muslim extremist groups whose primary aim to impose their beliefs on everyone else.
Thanks for standing up for LIFE!
Nathan-
A neutral stance is not always good, particularly when it comes to morality.
You would not support a neutral stance on theft or on murder of adult human beings.
Since abortion has been condemned as sinful/illegal for millennia since before Hippocrates, and since today 2/3 of all Americans still consider abortion to be morally wrong, there is good reason not to place Planned Parenthood/abortion on an equal footing with pregnancy help centers.
Finally, you are mistaken about Planned Parenthood. Their primary business, and the business that keeps them financially afloat, is abortion. Their directors are actively pressured to perform enough abortions to pay the bills.
Your willingness to call 2/3 of America un-American and to compare them with Muslim extremists is a typical tactic used by the radical left these days – ridiculing your opponents instead of reasoning with them (Alinsky tactics).