I was at one point a member of the Wayne State Students for Life - my wife was the Treasurer. If you happen to be like me - someone who can't stand the do-or-die style of collegiate activism - then you'll understand my disdain for people who agree with me, but act like people completely devoid of rational argument.

I used to argue with my adamantly Catholic aunt about why abortion is wrong. Never mind the inarguable fact that I have been Pro-Life since sometime in my public, secular high school life. No, my secularist reasoning behind my position was wrong. See, the whole point is not to stop or curb abortions, but to convert. Call it the dirty little secret of the Pro-Life movement, if you want - it doesn't make me any less a Pro-Life advocate.

Apparently, God needs more believers like Tinkerbell needs more clapping children. Never mind the actual, real-world issue abortion raises. Start clapping or God will die and no one will care. Sorry, God, but if you need me as a cheerleader, you're out of luck.

Even so, abortion remains amazingly reprehensible despite some yahoos crashing a Dr. Seuss-turned-animated-flick premier. In Hollywood, no less - something that will inevitably, and already has caused the sort of Heathen-like hooting and hollering PC Christians love to point to as bigoted Hollywood attacking us poor, beleaguered, demonized Christians. Hell, if it wasn't for the Hollywood crowd smearing Christians with this sort of Puritan minority brand, we'd have little to nothing to complain about.

Some people obviously need to go back to the universal brain incubator; although, perhaps this says something more about our education system - yes, that includes Hollywood - than its products are capable of intelligently expressing. Doing stupid shit in order to get bad press really isn't a productive way of winning your argument. Then again, the self-proclaimed Genocide Awareness Project isn't either (no, I won't link them - if you really want to know, use Google). But shock and awe seems to be the wave of the future of argumentation. Quick and easy is more like it. Have fun prostituting your beliefs.

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