tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30058350.post5106281171971597970..comments2024-03-28T18:05:58.600-05:00Comments on Harry Times...All Jacked Up: Raising Hell at ChurchSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07270389106604867450noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30058350.post-34363248400660921282010-10-26T23:53:36.780-05:002010-10-26T23:53:36.780-05:00I love Jack contemplating his toes. Very transcen...I love Jack contemplating his toes. Very transcendent.<br /><br />i just wrote a big long rambling diatribe about the abortion pamphlets but I deleted it because it was big, long and rambly. I feel better now, but you don't have to read it! Win-win!! :-)sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01387145957769474838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30058350.post-23443699559800064482010-10-25T18:15:53.381-05:002010-10-25T18:15:53.381-05:00I love the concentration with which Jack picks his...I love the concentration with which Jack picks his feet. Podiatry school in the future? Jacob is so cute! What a little doll.Tripodnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30058350.post-76776189427140538042010-10-25T16:40:12.588-05:002010-10-25T16:40:12.588-05:00First off Sarah it is I the "Know it All"...First off Sarah it is I the "Know it All" who wrote the anonymous thing. I just hate that people use religion as a way to judge and to say that everything they use from a rhetorical perspective or otherwise is okay because they love Jesus. It's not okay and I'm sorry I am not a bad person for honoring a woman's right to choose. I actually had someone at my desk the other day describe a "baby killer." I finally confessed that I might fall into that category having worked at PP in a former life. They were mortified and stopped it right there. The bottom line is that no one loves abortion no one thinks wow, what a great idea. It is hard and nothing that I as a pro-choice person take lightly at all. I just don't think that anyone should die for having become pregnant and having an illegal abortion and I don't think that I can ever try to tell a woman in a position with an unwanted pregnancy how to handle it. Thats it, so write about it, get the feelings out there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30058350.post-5581438869241981332010-10-25T13:15:02.511-05:002010-10-25T13:15:02.511-05:00Yeah, Wendy, I think you're right.
I realiz...Yeah, Wendy, I think you're right. <br /><br /> I realized that midway through my reply, but then I kept going.<br /><br /> I am finding myself in the awkward spot of defending pro-life rhetoric b/c it is much maligned by pro-choice supporters, but it works-- and I want to know why and how it works and for whom.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07270389106604867450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30058350.post-47172419816874204302010-10-25T13:09:47.122-05:002010-10-25T13:09:47.122-05:00I don't think anonymous was saying that you ar...I don't think anonymous was saying that you are judgemental. <br /><br />I think the comment meant, "At church, of all places, people shouldn't invoke religious beliefs as a reason to judge others." The judging would be by the authors of the phamples who imply that if you choose abortion, it is against religion/God/Christ, whomever. I can only draw that conclusion because of their placement in a church. <br /><br />I think the comment was actually in support of you, not a criticism. The reference to judgemental was toward others, not you. <br /><br />That was my take on the comment. <br /><br />Don't even get me started about abortion...I heard that my 3 teenage girls were taught in Sunday School that abortion was killing babies. I came un-glued! And the women who said these things are my friends....It actually led to a really good conversation with my girls, but I was still pissed that it was even brought up in church and framed in a religious context.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01578708937349702068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30058350.post-14056266648170275792010-10-25T12:53:08.502-05:002010-10-25T12:53:08.502-05:00Such a cute nephew! I love that the kids all got ...Such a cute nephew! I love that the kids all got involved in the baptism. So sweet! And I love the way your kids wear ties too.Beccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05156777853779141522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30058350.post-46595472139860434662010-10-25T12:04:56.927-05:002010-10-25T12:04:56.927-05:002 things, anonymous, if you are claiming that I am...2 things, anonymous, if you are claiming that I am judgmental:<br /><br />1. These pamphlets are not necessarily religious-- some make life-based arguments that specifically endorse Judeo-Christian and Christian gods, but some of the do not.<br /><br />2. I am not "judging" in a kind of colloquial way. I am very interested in studying pro-life rhetoric-- how arguments against abortion are formed, supported, and circulated-- in a way that has very little to do with my own feelings on the subject. The particular campaign I am investigating uses Planned Parenthood literature from the 1940s to argue that mainstream birth control organizations have always been about genocide. The fascinating thing is that PP was, in fact, a racist org in the 1930s, 1940s, and even into the 1950s. This particular campaign is quoting actual PP material to make its case, and PP has not really figured out what to do about it. I was exited to find an actual pamphlet for the campaign in the flesh, instead of just online. <br /><br />If you mean the pro-life stuff is judgmental-- I am not sure it is in the way you're classifying it. The judgment rests on the sanctity of life argument, and if you unpack pro-choice rhetoric, that's what they're responding to as well. For awhile orgs like PP went on the offense and tried to re-figure the terms of the debate, but most of the time they respond to charges that pro-choice rhetoric is morally bankrupt.<br /><br />The rhetoric in these pamphlets is much more complex than protest placards, and I think it's fascinating to think systematically about it.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07270389106604867450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30058350.post-66947817119859840452010-10-25T11:55:41.767-05:002010-10-25T11:55:41.767-05:00I truly hope that that inspired you to bring back ...I truly hope that that inspired you to bring back the writing because seriously nothing is more offensive to me than judging others in the name of Jesus. The hypocrisy slays me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30058350.post-1627981823050716682010-10-25T11:01:28.681-05:002010-10-25T11:01:28.681-05:00I would really like our next child to be a boy so ...I would really like our next child to be a boy so I can dress him in ties daily!<br /><br />I love the pictures of Ben's parents with all the grandkids. It's so fun to see our parents when they're surrounded by their grandkids (mainly because that means that Evan and I are probably headed out the door fast as lightening while no one's looking).Virginiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07722173267382651968noreply@blogger.com