Strange title for a blog on the pro life movement. Yet with everything I blog it seems the first point comes later.
Well it is always a busy week, but this past one has had its moments.(see other previous blogs) I attended the 39th annual pro life march here in Dallas just this past Saturday. This event is for the anniversary of the Roe v Wade case being filed in Dallas, but the anniversary starts from the year of the actual judgment.
The is the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, Ft Worth and other Catholic communities getting together to hold Rosary, Mass, and then the march to the courthouse area to hear more speakers, then march back to the downtown Cathedral. This event lasted about 5 - 7 hours depending on when you joined the proceedings. For my group we got downtown and into the Cathedral just in time to grab the last few seats. Many were outside and in other parts of the complex listening to the Mass on speakers. The local news stations put the march crowd around 8000. Overall a pretty uneventful march, nothing untowards, I didn't see any pro choice groups along the route, nor any other groups participating for or against. We did march by the First Baptist Church in Dallas and someone mentioned you could stop by there and meet with some people to discuss on the way back, saw a few go into their complex, more or less a friendly get together for the cause from what I heard. I think some of their congregation may have participated.
If you don't know and you would need to be an ostrich not to Dallas is a southern conservative city so the issue is pretty one sided for most of Dallas. So no surprise that the event was more or less just a march with no untowards controversy. Even so only sparse news coverage by the local stations, which sort of surprised me. I know the primary in South Carolina was the same day and Newt pulled off an upset, (and reallly did that truly surprise you from South Carolina. I knew Romney in New Hampshire and expected Newt in S.C. I got to start calling these, its Florida that will get interesting and then Colorado where the true pro in calling elections will stand out), but still thought the local news would be more attuned to the march.
Okay so where did Obama shoot himself in the foot, well it actually came the day before from I guess his Sec of Health and Human Welfare. The Bishop at the end of the Mass mentioned what happened and when a Catholic Bishop gets to stand up and start talking constitutional issues, well you got something there. Apparently the Obama administration has decided health care now includes the right to contraceptions and even possibly abortion must be available in a health care plan no matter who is the sponsor. Or better put the Catholic Church must give its employees health care that pays for birth control. Okay unless you are the same ostrich as above you know that the Church has a wee bit of an issue with birth control and oh yes, abortion. Basically the government which comes from our constitution has now decided that religion cannot hold true to its tenaments. (hope right word, its late and I am wanting to get this done and go to bed).
Our Bishop now is standing up at the end of Mass exclaiming that our government is infringing on the right of the Church and oh by the way isn't there something about freedom of religion in our constitution, and so now the Church is seriously looking at what to do about all this. The Bishop is speaking to the choir so to speak, it is a crowd about to go on a pro life march, but President Obama this could become a festering wound for you.
I have mentioned before and still believe that most of this country is moderately conservative and Mr President you are going to need their votes to win again. This could tilt some voters and if the issue becomes hot, Mr President much to the surprise of many liberals you may find out that there is a silent pro life bloc of voters, the ones that don't go on marches, that sit quietly at home and hear things they don't like and could act on it if the right buttons are pushed. And quite frankly for me they are, I am a big believer that religion should be able to practice its faith as long as they respect the rights of others and this is a big deal. Yes I am obviously someone who will stand up and say I am a pro lifer so it is not my vote you just lost, but you may want to rethink this one fast.
Well its late and more does need to be said here, I will end for now, but this issue won't.
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