I wish I could say this surprises me, but I don’t want to lie. So, no this doesn’t surprise me at all. It sickens me, but it doesn’t surprise me. I wish I could say the church sign below is as funny as most church signs are, but I can’t say that. The sign is more disgusting than the typical groan-inducing, pun-laden church sign and not the least bit humorous. Take a look and decide for yourself.
It was my understanding that people seeking family planning services – which sometimes include getting information about abortion, and, yes, having abortions – went to clinics of their own volition. The people who provide family planning services don’t knock on people’s doors and proselytize. They set up offices and hang their shingles. They also locate their clinics in areas that are accessible to the people who are most likely to need their services. That’s just good business. If there’s any connection between the ethnic/racial composition of the neighborhoods and the locations of these clinics, it’s due to correlations between race/ethnicity and socioeconomic factors, not because the people operating the clinics want to kill little dark-skinned babies.
The simple-minded pastor who posted this sign isn’t interested in facts. He’s only interested in stirring up emotions, and he doesn’t give a damn whether those emotions will be appropriate responses. That’s not surprising, of course, because that’s how religion works. Religious leaders must appeal to emotions when selling their snake oil since the facts don’t support their claims. So, naturally, when religious leaders venture into the world of politics, they apply the same modus operandi. Sad to say, most politicians operate the same way. Perhaps that’s why religion and politics are such compatible (and contemptible) bedfellows. And their bedsheets are filthy.
– the chaplain
Ric
June 21, 2012 at 1:30 pm
It absolutely misses the mark anyway. The real problem is not that doctors are out to kill black babies. It’s the corporatists and the politicians who are out to kill all babies everywhere through global warming. But leave it to a preacher to miss the forest for the trees – on the other hand the trees are disappearing anyway, so soon enough there won’t be a forest to see. Oh, fuck them all. Screaming assholes. Talking monkeys.
desertscope
June 24, 2012 at 2:19 am
I beg to differ, Ric. Our betters (corporate overlords) simply don’t care whether we or any babies live or die. So long as social issues can be leveraged into political power, however, they will happily hitch their horse to any wagon. Hell, they will even tolerate a net growth in the lesser races if it translates into a net increase in power for them.
Ric
June 24, 2012 at 8:50 am
It’s not whether they care: they don’t as a practical matter – things that die or suffer only matter as the death or suffering affect corporate profits or political donations. It’s just what they do. Elephants step on ants and never notice. Same with corporations and politicians. Global warming is irrelevant to them: just turn up the goddam air conditioner, sonny. Corporations and politicians are immortal, of course. Just pour on the sunblock, honey. The things that affect us ordinary mortals don’t touch them. Jesus Christ, Jerry, where the hell is everybody, and why isn’t the air conditioner working? “Because they’re all dead, you asshole.” And thus we whimper out of existence and the money of the corporations and the politicians sits forever in bank vaults whose time locks become irrelevant.
I believe we’re saying the same thing. Perhaps I need more coffee.
Recovering Agnostic
June 21, 2012 at 5:50 pm
I’ve always wondered – why would people make claims like this on church noticeboards? I mean, sure the mainstream media are all babykilling, satan-worshipping pinko liberals who are in on the conspiracy, but if it was really true – really, really true – you’d think it was a story that would be worthy of a wider audience, and would easily get one if posted on a blog, or on Twitter, or anything. Even a bit of campaigning or leafletting, or something.
In fact, it’s almost like it’s not actually true at all. But a man of God wouldn’t lie, would he? Surely not…
Ahab
June 28, 2012 at 11:20 pm
Claims of racism are a well-worn tactic in anti-abortion activists’ arsenal, and I doubt they’ve looked very closely at their assumptions.
tommykey
June 24, 2012 at 10:09 pm
And these are the same people who will in the next breath complain about black women having out of wedlock babies and collecting welfare.
Ric
June 25, 2012 at 6:33 am
Tommykey: You’re expecting reason, logic, actual real-world thought from religionists? You’re off your meds, aren’t you?
