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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Maggie Gallagher :: Townhall.com Columnist
Is Planned Parenthood Above The Law?
by Maggie Gallagher
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I do not believe that Planned Parenthood is explicitly racist (though its founder, Margaret Sanger, certainly was), any more than I believe that Planned Parenthood workers actively want to encourage pedophilia.

But here's what we've learned: Planned Parenthood is an organization staffed by people committed to the proposition that there is never a good reason not to have, support, fund or perform an abortion. In their own minds, their sacred mission to destroy human life puts them above the normal rules and even laws that any minimally decent person (whether pro-choice or pro-life) would recognize.

Help pedophiles and racists? For too many Planned Parenthood employees, it's apparently all in a day's work.

That's a clear product of a corporate culture created by Planned Parenthood, which views the organization as above normal rules and laws.

And the vast right-wing conspiracy cannot possibly do more damage to this organization's reputation than its own leadership does in dismissing the indefensible.
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Maggie Gallagher is a nationally syndicated columnist, a leading voice in the new marriage movement and co-author of The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially.

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Reply # 1
Date: May 14, 2008 - 11:58 AM EST
Rich D..
It might surprise you to know that one of my absolute favorite books of all time, is "The Prophet". by Kahlil Gibran.
It's beautiful words of inspiration. Although a Lebanese Catholic, Gibran doesn't mention Jesus in the book. But God. The place is somewhat mythic, as are the characters Amustafa and Almitra. I give this book away often as gifts to my friends.
Why?
Because as I said, I believe in LOVE. Love commands us to be open to our fellow human beings. Their pain, their right to enjoy their lives at no expense to our own, and even to recognize love within another. You never have talked about love. Kahlil Gibran's book deserves it's accolades for it's inspirational passages.
Get a clue. I can believe in love because I know it's served me better than anything else.
But I know that Jesus, and Buddha and Moses and Gandhi and any number of brothers of peace and justice knew it.
It's not MY BELIEF, it's the founding principle of moral justice and destiny. That's what love is.
And you only talk of control of, but without any care to see gay people for who they really are. It's legitimate to step into another's skin BEFORE you judge them. That's only right and fair. That you have that against a single group known before your own religion even existed is what doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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Reply # 2
Date: May 14, 2008 - 10:28 AM EST
so it's on you
There comes a time when other tests require an opportunity for results. Your beliefs and opinions are acting without enough opportunity for gays and lesbians to prove things one way or another. Traditions have excluded them from such opportunity. Yet you want to judge them as if that hasn't happened or without enough time or options.
Well, eventually the test requires the SAME standards, and gays and lesbians keep getting presented with different standards or impossible ones they know heterosexuals are not required to meet.
Fairness is also a component of moral values, so is justice for all, Rich D.
Committing to equal standards is also. Your constant invokation of YOUR idea of moral values ring hollow when you can't even discuss what that REALLY means. You and true2 have a strange way of running from that. You start preaching instead of just using plain language to a fair question.
And yes, both of you have stated that God's laws should trump any of man.
As IF no one in America was ever abused by that before. Another thing you won't acknowledge. Since Christians have broken trust before, it's crazy looking that you insist that ALL Christians should be trusted regardless of that legacy.
You're been called on your own Christian values, and you can't even see where you fail them.
Even Christians get to make progress when it comes to another human being's civil rights that heretofore were abused by religious directives.
Period.
of the Golden Rule or the Bill of Rights.
Give the belief bit a rest. It's old.
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