April 13, 2008

Colin James, on Putting our money where our mouths are:
A great fund raising site for World Vision is AIDtoCHILDREN.com.

AIDtoCHILDREN.com is a dual-purpose site for building an English vocabulary and raising money for under privileged children in the most impoverished places around the world.

Check it out at http://www.AIDtoCHILDREN.com.

 

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Frank Ruffolo, on Missing the point at University of Toronto:
Trish I believe the answer to your question is that those CUPE reps that you speak about pay union dues. The pro-life students don’t.

The whole purpose of a university education should be to encourage debate and develop young minds in an atmosphere of mutual respect, trust and dignity where all students should be able to freely express themselves and the positions they hold so dearly on issues of great importance to them that affect their entire culture and future well being.

Universities that do not allow students to freely express positions they hold so dearly on issues of great importance to them and their nation have in fact failed in the mission to educate and foster debate which should be the hallmark of any democratic institution of higher learning or nation.
My hat goes off to all these wonderful pro life students on university campuses right across the country that are standing up for the sanctity of life for all unborn baby children from conception to a natural death.

 

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JB, on Stuff I wish I’d made up:
That’s an impressive level of prejudice you’re showing off. Do you take any pride in your job or try to train yourself to excel at it, or are you happy staying at an entry skill level?

 

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Nicole, on Missing the point at University of Toronto:
Gregg Cunningham says, “Injustice that is invisible inevitably becomes tolerable.”

To a large extent this is why we do GAP, to show people what we’re talking about. Using the comparison of the Holocaust to Abortion forces the people to discuss the issue, to ask us (in some cases not so kindly) WHY. I feel the comparison is valid because the truth is so horrific, it stops people rationalizing abortion as a ‘necessary evil’ - Was the Nazis’ final solution a necessary evil?

The GAP also does several other signs, “The Insanity of Choice”, showing a wanted and unwanted baby, often the same size, “Save the Whales, Kill the babies?” is the best to use at universities, it really draws on the humane treatment of animals, and the opposite of our own species. Anyway, I’m digressing, whoops….

Like any comparison, there are similarities and differences, and often people accuse us of making mothers seem like Nazis if they chose Abortion. That is most certainly untrue. The sole point we are making is the horror and criminality of abortion equates to crimes against humanity such as genocide, specifically, the Holocaust (although there is other examples used, like the lynching of the Blacks in America). I consider it a good method because it allows people to make the link to the urgency of the cause - often it switches on the activist in the pro-lifers, and we ourselves are reminded of how vital the prolife cause is to a culture of life.

 

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Sean, on A nugget from “A Demographic Winter”:
Wow. The well said, sad reality of our culture.

Great point.

 

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John R. Sutherland, on Google’s double standard:
While I agree that Google’s rationalization for refusing the ads sounds pretty flimsy, I think that it is an exaggeration to say that Google is steeped in a pro-abortion worldview. My own blog is readily accessible via Google and is hosted on a Google site provided for setting up a blog. They should be taken to task for their myopic view of what constitutes acceptable advertising, but don’t overdo the criticism.