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Thursday, May 09, 2013

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Jason

I used to live in Germantown, MD. And I find what they do just a block off of Wisteria Drive repugnant. We used to live just a mile or so from where these horror currently occur (our pediatrician, a wonderful, caring practice, is just a hundred feet from this abomination). However, as both my wife and I have observed, I find what our side does repugnant as well. Not equally, and I'm not drawing a moral equivalence. However, my wife and I have driven up Wisteria Drive from Germantown Road and had to avert our children's eyes from the graphic scenes depcited on the anti-abortionist's signs so that our children (all four under eight years old at the time) wouldn't go to sleep seeing these graphic images of dismembered fetuses as their last thought before slumber. I believe we can find a middle ground (both Catholic and protestant) where we do not "offend the least of these" while still upholding the sanctity of life for all the world to see.

We need, necessarily, to be in the world, but not of the world. And we need to decry what Gosnell and his ilk do without sullying ourselves with the sort of shock propaganda the world so desperately desires. How to do this? I don't know.

Rick

I don't know either Jason.

I wish I did.

BroKen

It has been reported that at the end of WWII when German citizens living around concentration camps were forced by the Allied soldiers to tour the camps, they cried, "We didn't know!" Would it have been wrong for someone to have marched around the camps carrying large photos of emaciated bodies pilled like cord would? It would have been propaganda, sure. But wrong?

Yes, we want to protect our children's innocence as long as possible. Or is it that we are afraid to help them process the evil in our midst? Perhaps we are afraid to process... confront it ourselves.

Jason

Bro. Ken,
I believe the answer to your last question is probably yes. We are probably a little afraid to help them process the evil in our midst. We'd rather protect them from the evil than acquaint them with the evil.

The answer to your first question is also a big resounding yes as well. Yes, it would have been wrong. Is the forced viewing of objectionable material wrong? Yes. You'd better believe it. Put it in another context. As Christians, we believe it is wrong to lust after the flesh, to abuse our bodies, to have intimate relations outside of marriage, right? Well, then, why don't we protest those by showing hardcore, degrading porn? It's because the viewing of this degrading, disgusting stuff is itself wrong.

The question you seem to be asking is what's wrong with fighting a greater evil with a lesser evil. I would hope the answer to that would be immediately obvious.

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