-sort of an odd analogy, but this is America. :shrug:
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http://www.opednews.com/stillwater_042605_prolife_drive_the_lane.htmDriving the lane: Why the pro-life team will never make it to the playoffs
By Jane Stillwater
www.OpEdNews.com
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If the "Culture of Life" lobby were a basketball team, they wouldn't even win a high school game. These guys are bench-sitters. You wanna really be Pro-Life? You gotta drive the lane.
Sure, it's easy for the so-called "pro-life" team to, as Dr. Carol Wolman put it, "battle fiercely to preserve the life of a woman who has been brain-dead for 15 years or clusters of human cells just fertilized -- yet turn their backs on the lives of millions around the globe who are starving and dying from curable diseases and support the killing of 100,000 Iraqis in two years for no good reason." No, this all-wimp team will never make the Pro-Life NBA.
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To quote Alanna Hartzok, "For the so-called pro-life 'Christians' to stand up against the 'culture of death' that Washington politicians are espousing, they would be forced to take a stand against the entire globalization system of control, power and wealth concentration (Iraq war deaths, poverty, starvation). On the other hand, they can 'afford' to appear very concerned about life and death issues which have no political power implications." And that do not place them in any danger or stretch the envelope in any way. Protesting Terri Shaivo's death was a very bush-league thing to do and very, very easy.
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You guys wanna REALLY be Pro-Life? Then play in the big leagues. Go on the road and play at the Baghdad superdome like Marla Ruzicka. Or, like Mother Theresa, find the nearest homeless person and star on your home team. And start demanding that the refs begin to call fouls on the riff-raff that have taken over our courts and who are destroying OUR game: Stop Bush, Wolfowitz, Sharon, Negroponte, bin Ladin, Rumsfeld, Frist and all the other death squad point-guards who are double-teaming the REAL culture of life. Let's take their multi-billion dollar contracts away and make it clear to them "If you want to be on the court, you gotta play by the rules."
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