Planned Parenthood's holiday card not peacefully recieved
Submitted by Dabitch on Wed, 12/04/2002 - 04:41.
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according to cnn "a holiday card by the nation's largest abortion-rights group is under fire from some groups that say it is offensive and reflects an anti-religious bigotry. "
the card makes a pun of 'peace on earth' by choosing the tagline 'choice on earth' [click continue to see card]
"The group twists a well-known Scripture in which God offers peace on earth -- not abortion -- through the birth of his son, Jesus Christ" said Wendy Wright, senior policy director at Concerned Women for America.
Planned parenthood called the criticism of the card "absurd" and continue: "Our supporters are so energized by the vicious criticism of our holiday card that we're printing additional cards and limited-edition "Choice on Earth" T-shirts, which can be ordered at www.plannedparenthood.org/store."
here's the sweet snowflake card causing all this ruckus.
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Jeepers cripes. So "peace on earth" is solely a religious phrase that can't be trifled with by outsiders lest fire and brimstone rain down upon their noggins?
So much for good will toward men. This is the season to be nice, not to fight.
aye, agreed, stop fighting people! ;-)
and if you look at planned parenthoods site and checkl their electronic postcards to send out, they have some far more controversial images on the others. the classic coathange question mark. The men in suiuts carrying the line "77% of anti-abortion leaders are men - 100% of them will never be pregnant" which is a raunchier line.
i guess paul arden was right. god is in the details. ;-)
Sometimes a complaint comes up that is so silly one does not feel compelled to construct a reasoned rebuttal, merely to scream STUPID at the top of one's voice. This is one of the more clear cut examples of that situation I've seen.
And which religion is "peace on earth" associated with? I guess I missed that memo.
Just one more reason for the extreme anti-abortionist to complain about something.
I like the card design. It's simple and funky.
If I remember the ol' Bible's Book of Luke, Chapter 2:14, the original translations was sumptin' like "... Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, and good will to men."
Then Henry Wadsworth Longfellow came out with the Civil War poem "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" aka "Christmas Bells" a few centuries later that rearranged the words to read as we know them today.
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Till, ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime
A chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Then from each black accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound
The carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn
The households born
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
"For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men!"
So if you ask me, the wordplay's not anti-religious - it's anti-civil-war!
thunk head repeatedly off desk... and I say to those activists: "so what if you don't like it and it doesn't reflect your midwestern, corn-fed sensibilities, I'm willing to bet you aren't on any pro-choice folks' X-Mas card lists anyway... so what are you worried about?"
Crikey. Some people are living reasons for... nevermind.