Wow…just look at the power of Satan, he divides, conquers, and leads us to him with our own tongues! I have read and re-read every post on this page. I ask all of you, for the good of the fight…step out of the politics, it’s not worth our faith. “Catholic” = “Universal”. God is calling each of us to do the right thing, be still, listen, and you will hear it.

As I have neither the time nor inclination to continue to beat this same dead horse, this will be my last comment on the subject. That way, Blackadder can self aggrandize and paint me as small minded to his heart’s content.

Supporting and electing pro-life Democrats, and establishing a pro-life presence in the Democratic Party, should be a major if not top POLITICAL priority for the pro-life movement… I’d say equal to if not greater than getting the “right” justices on the Supreme Court. (And I say that as a Republican). It will enable pro-life measures to ride out the inevitable swings in public opinion that occur as each party passes in and out of power. The pro-life movement should NOT put all its political eggs in one basket (conservative wing of the GOP). Anyone who doubts that, I have just one word for them: Stupak

for all their protestations that they are, indeed, “pro-life”, many pro-lifers on the left just feel more at home with their radical death-cult brethren than they do with pro-lifers who actually walk the walk

Here’s BA:

to suggest that someone isn’t really pro-life if he isn’t more comfortable around one type of person rather than another is, I think, wrongheaded.

Jay may not have intended (in fact I’m sure he didn’t) that his comment came across the way it did to BA, but BA’s interpretation and criticism above is certainly reasonable. We all write comments hastily at times, and I expect that the attitude BA criticizes is not how Jay wished to be understood. But I don’t think anything about this previously civil exchange merits condescending comments about ‘looking into’ ‘reading comprehension’.

What Jay actually said.

And, for the record, my initial comment NEVER said that one needed to associate with clinic protesters (or people otherwise engaged in “approved” pro-life activities) or not associate with “radical feminists” (or people otherwise engaged in pro-choice activities) in order to be sufficiently “pro-life”.

But I would hope that anyone calling oneself “pro-life” would not attack others who have been out front in the cause (especially a blanket attack that implicates everyone picketing in front of a clinic) as being less savory characters than those who are out front in the effort to keep abortion legal.

It’s called reading comprehension. Look into it.