Eloquent statement by a Franciscan Brother against the "March for Life" [View all]

[ehrnst]

While he doesn't support Roe, he points out the hypocrisy, futility and self-serving nature of a bunch of White people getting on a bus for 2 days in January, and thinking that's what Christianity means.

"Try something new if you are really serious about reducing or ending abortions.

Perhaps caring for young adults who become pregnant, taking care of unwed mothers, offering good school systems for the children who are carried to term and brought into this world – all of these would be good places to begin.

Perhaps those, mostly white, marchers would do well to consider the racial, gender, ethnic, socio-cultural and economic issues that undergird the abortion questions in this country. It is never, never as simple as “good” versus “bad,” “pro-life” versus “pro-death,” and so on.

Perhaps I would be more sympathetic to the movement to parade through the streets of Washington, DC, in protest of a forty-year-old Supreme Court decision if I was more convinced of the sincerity of the protesters to do what it is they claim they want, which, if they are truly Christians, demands so very much more of them than getting on a bus for a two-day road trip each January."


http://datinggod.org/2012/01/23/why-i-do-not-support-the-so-called-march-for-life/