Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Blessing (Not Cursing) Planned Parenthood

Rev. Tom Davis: Blessing (Not Cursing) Planned Parenthood: "During this past spring more than half of America's fifty state legislatures have . . . become obsessed with passing legislation to defund, harass, and block the work of Planned Parenthood. In Biblical terms, what is being done to this 96 year old organization is 'cursing.' In scripture to curse a person or a group is to bring condemnation upon them, to put them outside the protection of God and/or the community.

"When legislators and the entire anti-abortion movement which drives them engage in 'cursing' they first devalue the members of the group they are attacking, characterizing them as strange people with alien values. They then make endless and groundless charges against Planned Parenthood, seeking to stop its work. This leads to the 'cursed' group being shunned by other groups . . . and the process continues until the people of the community begin to see the group as evil, a threat to families or at the very least, 'not like us.' This kind of cursing was done to the NAACP in the 1950s and to the ACLU in the days of McCarthyism."

Editor: Oh my! So now to oppose is to curse? Where will it end?

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