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God doesn't change, the faith doesn't change. Disheartening.
ie: Remember shortly before the last Presidential election, the Al Smith Dinner? Cardinal Dolan invited Obama. Last Friday, the scheduled keynote speaker, our President, asked God to bless Planned Parenthood!! Aaaaahhh! Planned Parenthood is the biggest provider for abortion in America!!!
So though the fight over Planned Parenthood might be about abortion, Planned Parenthood itself isn’t about abortion. It’s primarily about contraception and reproductive health. And if Planned Parenthood loses funding, what will mainly happen is that cancer screenings and contraception and STD testing will become less available to poorer people. Folks with more money, of course, have many other ways to receive all these services, and tend to get them elsewhere already.
www.washingtonpost.com...
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by colbe
ie: Remember shortly before the last Presidential election, the Al Smith Dinner? Cardinal Dolan invited Obama. Last Friday, the scheduled keynote speaker, our President, asked God to bless Planned Parenthood!! Aaaaahhh! Planned Parenthood is the biggest provider for abortion in America!!!
So though the fight over Planned Parenthood might be about abortion, Planned Parenthood itself isn’t about abortion. It’s primarily about contraception and reproductive health. And if Planned Parenthood loses funding, what will mainly happen is that cancer screenings and contraception and STD testing will become less available to poorer people. Folks with more money, of course, have many other ways to receive all these services, and tend to get them elsewhere already.
www.washingtonpost.com...
Planned Parenthood does a lot more than abortion. PP mostly serves low income women who don't have the means to see a private physician. Railing against Planned Parenthood only bars low income women of receiving the same services that women of means get from their personal physicians everyday.
Your fight against Planned Parenthood is a fight against health care for women at risk and women who can't otherwise afford these services. There is nothing noble or righteous in your efforts to end Planned Parenthood.
edit on 2-5-2013 by windword because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by colbe
Planned Parenthood is not the only provider of contraception. They just happen to be an organization that makes contraception available to poor and at risk women. You are only attacking those women.
Why aren't you attacking the FDA, who approved these methods? Why aren't you attacking Merck, who has a 8.6 percent profit yield manufacturing and distributing NuvaRing, or, Johnson & Johnson who owns Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical and earns 12.3 persent profit pushing Ortho Tri-cyclen and Ortho-Evra, or, Pfizer Incorporated (PFE), which makes Depo-Provera Contraceptive Injection earning 8.4 percent profit, or, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries earning 6.9 persent profit making IUDs?
Why aren't you attacking Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross, Cigna, Humana, Kaiser, United Health Net,...etc. who all offer birth control through their qualified physicians?
Your misguided and misdirected attacks against Planned Parenthood is merely an attack of poor, disinfranchised and at risk women and teens.
edit on 3-5-2013 by windword because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by KeliOnyx
reply to post by colbe
Well I am Catholic and fully support Planned Parenthood, and I will tell you why. Because when my health was at risk they were there for me, where was the Church? Probably installing yet another ivory xxx for the Pope. Growing up my dad worked as maintenance for a Catholic church once you see what goes on behind the scenes you are really better off dealing with God on your own because priests are just men. Men with the same vices and interests as every other man.
Hi Akragon, Don't deny to the end Akragon, the truth is, there is only one God, He is your God too. He loved you first, He created you. God doesn't change, He is merciful and loving AND perfectly just. Man's understanding of who God is matured in the New Covenant with God coming down in the person of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Originally posted by colbe
The loss of faith in the world, we see it getting darker, day by day. We have an eternal soul and choice to make, to follow God's ways or the evil one.
Originally posted by Prezbo369
Originally posted by colbe
The loss of faith in the world, we see it getting darker, day by day. We have an eternal soul and choice to make, to follow God's ways or the evil one.
Another bigoted christian thread?
Anyone that's not in your gang is evil........yeah you guys are great
How about you examine your life?
Where do you get off telling people what to do and that they're evil?
And don't hide behind the 2000 yr old sheep herders guide to the galaxy, for once in your life think for yourself
Originally posted by jiggerj
reply to post by colbe
Hi Akragon, Don't deny to the end Akragon, the truth is, there is only one God, He is your God too. He loved you first, He created you. God doesn't change, He is merciful and loving AND perfectly just. Man's understanding of who God is matured in the New Covenant with God coming down in the person of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
That's right! God loves you AK! And, god doesn't change. That means if you were alive at the time of Noah, god would've drowned you too, just like everyone else he loved. And, if you were a firstborn in Egypt in the time of Moses, god would've let you drop dead with the rest of the firstborn - now THAT is love, man, PURE LOVE! Well, it's love in a kind of insane, illogical, non-existent way.edit on 5/4/2013 by jiggerj because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by KeliOnyx
reply to post by colbe
I apologize I did not realize arms and jewelry were sinful. I didn't say the job was awful, I said once you get to peek behind the curtain and see what happens you realize they don't have any more or better answers than you are capable of coming up with on your own. They are just men they drink, they smoke, they watch soaps on TV, go to the movies and watch sports. Some of them have secret girlfriends, some of them have secret boyfriends. They eat with forks and knives. There is nothing really all that special about them other than they have a job that gives them free room and board and buys them a car every couple of years. I spent a good deal of my youth in the company of priests, and known many on a true personal level (and no not in any scandalous way). They are just people.
Originally posted by colbe
Originally posted by jiggerj
reply to post by colbe
Hi Akragon, Don't deny to the end Akragon, the truth is, there is only one God, He is your God too. He loved you first, He created you. God doesn't change, He is merciful and loving AND perfectly just. Man's understanding of who God is matured in the New Covenant with God coming down in the person of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
That's right! God loves you AK! And, god doesn't change. That means if you were alive at the time of Noah, god would've drowned you too, just like everyone else he loved. And, if you were a firstborn in Egypt in the time of Moses, god would've let you drop dead with the rest of the firstborn - now THAT is love, man, PURE LOVE! Well, it's love in a kind of insane, illogical, non-existent way.edit on 5/4/2013 by jiggerj because: (no reason given)
Been explained over and over, LOL, aren't you lucky your Creator placed you in the New Covenant.
Your ridiculous argument so you can deny the only one who really loves you jigger. You are crying out to
God, come on, direct your prayers to Him.
Originally posted by kimish
reply to post by 3NL1GHT3N3D1
I believe it was Christ that preached tolerance and forgiveness. Not God.
Originally posted by jiggerj
Originally posted by colbe
Originally posted by jiggerj
reply to post by colbe
Hi Akragon, Don't deny to the end Akragon, the truth is, there is only one God, He is your God too. He loved you first, He created you. God doesn't change, He is merciful and loving AND perfectly just. Man's understanding of who God is matured in the New Covenant with God coming down in the person of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
That's right! God loves you AK! And, god doesn't change. That means if you were alive at the time of Noah, god would've drowned you too, just like everyone else he loved. And, if you were a firstborn in Egypt in the time of Moses, god would've let you drop dead with the rest of the firstborn - now THAT is love, man, PURE LOVE! Well, it's love in a kind of insane, illogical, non-existent way.edit on 5/4/2013 by jiggerj because: (no reason given)
Been explained over and over, LOL, aren't you lucky your Creator placed you in the New Covenant.
Your ridiculous argument so you can deny the only one who really loves you jigger. You are crying out to
God, come on, direct your prayers to Him.
The explanations are as lame as the stories themselves. This is why religion is very much an addiction. People will say and think and believe the most absurd things in order to protect their addiction.
I HAD to rob that store to get the money to buy my drugs.
I haven't won anything from gambling these last thirty years. This is the week I win big, so it's all been worth the days in my life without food or money to pay my bills.
A woman says to you, "I was sold into the sex trade when I was 13. I was raped for 20 years. I was stabbed three times. The tip of my nose was cut off. I have AIDS, and now cancer." You respond with, "Just remember, the all-powerful god loves you!"
The sad part is that the god addiction is the most absurd.
edit on 5/4/2013 by jiggerj because: (no reason given)