RE: [L3] RE: religious/political question

[Jon Gabriel]

From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: [L3] RE: religious/political question
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:36:19 -0500
At 01:31 PM 11/11/2003 -0500 Jon Gabriel wrote:
>>From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: RE: [L3] RE: religious/political question
>>Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:26:18 -0500
>>
>>At 03:30 PM 11/9/2003 +0530 ritu wrote:
>> >Gautam, how many religio-political groups condemn their own
>> >lunatics/extremists loudly, clearly and constantly? For that matter, 
how
>> >many political organisations/groups do that?
>>
>>Pro-Lifers in the United States would be one example of a 
religio-political
>>group that does this - particularly in the case of pro-life extremists 
who
>>resort to violence to kill and intimidate
>>abortion-providers/child-murderers.
>
>Really?  As far as I have seen, organizations that vigorously speak out
>against the murder of abortion docs are few and far between. Christian 
Life
>Resources is a good example but are there others?

Obviously we have different positions on the readiness of NRTL to speak out
against violence,
I suppose we do.  In case I had missed a statement on the subject, I 
searched for "murder" "homicide" and "clinic" on their site and also looked 
over the cover page.  I saw no statements of any kind about their stance for 
or against the murder of doctors who perform abortions.

However, when I searched for "violence", I found a statement made by Laura 
Echevarria, NRLC Director of Media Relations, 
(http://www.nrlc.org/news/1998/NRL11.98/laura.html) blaming the mass media 
for not covering them when they have condemned violence.  She said: "I was 
asked to comment on assertions made by pro-abortion groups that we (i.e., 
the pro-life movement) have not condemned the violence as loudly or as 
fiercely as we should. We have, of course, as have all responsible, truly 
pro-life organizations."

She may very well be right, yet I found no evidence of any official 
statement condemning violence against anyone except unborn children anywhere 
on their very comprehensive website.  What's curious to me is that since 
(afaik) the NRLC is _the_ most prominent mainstream pro-life organization in 
the US, I would expect that such a stance *would* be prominently highlighted 
on their site.

but I think it is worth noting that one of the foremost
right-to-life organizations out there is Priests for Life, and their
rejection of violence link is right at the very top of their page:
  http://www.priestsforlife.org/articles/rejectviolence.htm
Thanks for the link.  It's VERY good to see that.

I think that this is typical of the pro-life movement.
As I said earlier, I wish more organizations would be so outspoken, whether 
their members feel that way or not.  They have a responsibility to speak out 
against those who pervert their ideals, you know?

Jon

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