March for Life 2012...youth....church.....LIFE

Thanks to the nice people at KY Right to Life and many people of faith who chartered three buses to Washington DC and allowing a stowaway...I got to go to the March for Life for the first time. I always wanted to go and could not find anyone  that I could go along with so I always went to our Nashville version of March for Life which is also very good. 

But there is nothing like being a part of 400,000 people standing for the sanctity of human life. The march itself was not that long. The weather was rainy but it could have been worse and the standing still for the  speeches were not that bad either. I enjoyed people watching....and I saw something AMAZING.

I saw the CHURCH STAND UP. The crowd was huge, the youth were in splendid display and the church was very visible.  The crowd was civil and polite and  tidy especially considering the rain and mud. Signs that were disposed were done so in trash barrels.  I did not see any protesters and no indication of the Occupy Wall Streets squatters.


Perhaps I was just imagining I was in DC for this event because.....looking for news reports on this largest annual march you find the following:


Bob Smietana who writes for the Tennessean and USA Today said that  thousands were there.  Thousands...as in 400 thousand? He did profile some pro life students from Hendersonville TN who attended but in true liberal fashion referred to them as anti abortion as opposed to pro life. That is part of the MSM PC speech book. 

NY Times ignored the event as it has for the  the past five years. Washington Post posted a brief mention in the online version and opinion page that made it seem like small potatoes and had more concern for what streets would be closed off.  Broadcast news outlets also passed on reporting for this event. Maybe this is why people lack trust for the MSM.




Here is a first person report ......... large crowd........more youth....the Church stood up.....FOR LIFE.

Picture:Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

NYT: Why Monogamy Matters

Editorial in N Y Times on monogamy  shows that the sexual revolution indeed did not bring happiness...

"This is what’s at stake, for instance, in debates over abstinence-based sex education. Successful abstinence-based programs (yes, they do exist) don’t necessarily make their teenage participants more likely to save themselves for marriage. But they make them more likely to save themselves for somebody, which in turn increases the odds that their adult sexual lives will be a source of joy rather than sorrow.

It’s also what’s at stake in the ongoing battle over whether the federal government should be subsidizing Planned Parenthood. Obviously, social conservatives don’t like seeing their tax dollars flow to an organization that performs roughly 300,000 abortions every year. But they also see Planned Parenthood’s larger worldview — in which teen sexual activity is taken for granted, and the most important judgment to be made about a sexual encounter is whether it’s clinically “safe” — as the enemy of the kind of sexual idealism they’re trying to restore."

NYT : article on Rep. Joe Pitts seems to show a bias against those of faith as well as those who favor life

 NY Times article  doesn't attempt to hide  their bias with their wording in an article talking about Rep. Joe Pitts (R) PA chairing  the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. That's par for  the course in the MSM , but also watch for  the religious bias in their tone....
Everyone who supports abortion is called an advocate of rights and everyone who is pro life is called anti choice or opponents of rights.  That is not unusual, we are used to liberal reporters using this lingo in trying to  gin up their supporters and persuade the mushy middle of the "rightness" of their cause as they  paint those who favor life as ignorant or old men trying to limit woman's rights or as one tweet said...."they want government just big enough to control your vagina." 

When quoting  Rep. John Boehnner, slated to be the next Speaker, they picked this one.

“I grew up in a small house in Cincinnati with a big family, 11 brothers and sisters,” Mr. Boehner said. “My parents sent all 12 of us to Catholic schools.” At those schools, he said, “we learned about deeper values, and respect for life was at the top of that list.”

or Rep. Pitts....

"Mr. Pitts, the son of missionaries, is the head of a Congressional group of about 70 social conservatives known as the Values Action Team."

Now they are not commending their actions, they are criticizing them and subtly or maybe not too subtly showing that their upbringing with strong religious ties led to  their restrictive, i.e. ignorant or as another tweet described them...

"Crusty old men hell-bent on restricting a woman's' right to choose &bodily autonomy" 

Picture of Rep. Joe Pitts  (above from New York Times )