This holiday season, anti-[choice] activists in several states are renewing one of their favorite traditions: harassing women in front of family planning clinics with mean-spirited [Holiday] carols.
RH Reality Check reports on the antics of [Anti-Choice] Wisconsin:
Yes, for the few days leading up to [Holiday], [Anti-Choice] Wisconsin has pledged to deck the halls, or at least the sidewalks, of Wisconsin clinics with [Holiday] carols for the “empty mangers” that will exist due to [choice].
Via their website: Last year’s Empty Manger [Holiday] Caroling effort was so popular, we’re doing it again this year, and in more cities to boot! What better way to bring the joy of [Holidays] to a place where [choice] abounds?
Meanwhile, the [Anti-Choice] League’s website lists a jam-packed schedule of anti-[choice Holiday] caroling in the Chicago area. Events are also listed in Birmingham, Alabama, and several California cities.
In the true spirit of the holidays, women who need help from reproductive clinics will now have [to] face a swarm of religious ideologues who have turned their condemnation into song for the occasion.
Please note the bracketing; do not allow the reactionaries to own the language!
Published on ThinkProgress Health By Marie Diamond on Dec 9, 2011 at 10:32 am
The divide in our society is not between rich and poor, or Catholic and Protestant, or Christian and Muslim, but between those have faith and those who have reason. . . Those who accept the idea of god tend to divide the world into believers and atheists. Yet that is incorrect. Atheist means “without god” and one cannot be without something that does not exist. . . But a more reasonable and neutral description of the two world views would be theists and rationalists (or humanists, take your pick). . . his hubris and conceit of human superiority as the only creature close to god is not benign, leading to catastrophic consequences for humanity. The species-centric arrogance of religion cultivates a dangerous attitude about our relationship with the environment and the resources that sustain us. Humanists tend to view sustainability as a moral imperative while theists often view environmental concerns as liberal interference with god’s will.
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