the smedley log - suburban scrawl

What we lack in charity, we make up for in hypocrisy

“It’s not a question of the poor not being important or that meeting their needs is not important, but whether or not a baby is killed in the seventh or eighth month of pregnancy, that is less important than help for the poor? We would respectfully disagree with that.”
-Paul Hetrick (spokesman for Focus on the Family)

With all due respect, Mr. Hetrick, it’s not a question of whether a baby being killed in the seventh or eighth month is or isn’t less important than help for the poor; it’s a question of whether or not people of faith should be horse-trading their causes to curry favor with policy makers.

There should never be a compromise when it comes to life! God Bless.

That’s exactly my point. When someone asks you to compromise on one principle to advance another, isn’t that compromise tantamount to a deal with the devil? (Is that the approach Christ took?)

Life, unfortunately, is an issue that doesn’t end once you leave the womb. If someone dies of a preventable condition like malnutrition or disease that they could have cured or avoided with a little help, is that somehow less tragic? It’s a shortsighted philosophy (or intellectual dishonesty) that allows one to say yes to that question.