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- From: psb@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Jr Phillip S Buckland)
- Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
- Subject: Re: Violating Christian's rights
- Message-ID: <Jan.25.00.28.17.1993.4298@athos.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 05:28:18 GMT
- Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu
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- max@cyprs.rain.com (Max Webb) writes:
-
- [...]
-
- >Here we come to my point. The abortion issue is one symbolic
- >issue around which the religious right has gathered, but it
- >has become clear that the majority simply will not accept
- >illegalization of abortion.
-
- This characterization is incomplete. The majority of people
- will not accept an outright ban on abortions, but is more than
- willing to ban them for specific reasons (like sex selection).
- The polls indicate that the majority of Americans are willing
- to accept some abortion restrictions, but not all.
-
- >So, they began looking for
- >another issue.
-
- Due to your mischaracterization of the majority, I doubt that this
- conclusion is accurate.
-
- >I recall hearing a republican mention that,
- >and saying that the abortion issue had lost it's luster, and
- >that he expected the anti-gay rights struggle to be a much
- >better rallying point.
-
- One republican does not a religious right make.
-
- >He is wrong. To nonchristians (+many christians) here and
- >the world over, it looks like exactly what it is - a way to
- >gather political power by evoking ignorant fears, and bully-
- >ing a despised minority.
-
- See my sig below for a comment upon what things look like vs.
- what they really are.
-
- It is quite common for individuals who have a dearly held position
- to brook no opposition to that position, no matter how reasonably
- and civilly the flaws of that position are discussed. Those who
- therefore make the claim that their concerns have to do with
- establishing minority priviledges for a minority which still remains
- largely hidden (and therefore hard to identify, thus making true
- redress of wrongs problematical) are accused of "bullying".
-
- Likewise, those who are
- openly gay in the face of religious conservatives are accused of
- "bullying". "Bullying" seems to be a common facet of human nature;
- it is not, however, a facet of the nature of Christ, whose life-
- style all Christians are called to apprehend for themselves.
-
-
- We read the world wrong | Phil Buckland
- and say that it deceives us. | psb@eece.ksu.edu
- Tagore, from Stray Birds | psb@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
-
- [This discussion is moving in a direction that I'm not going to allow.
- I'm willing to talk about the issues of legislating Christianity,
- however discussions about "special rights for homosexuals" have proven
- particularly unproductive, and I'm not inclined to allow either that
- or discussion of abortion politics specifically. --clh]
-