The use of the words corpse or image just mind me of the use of the word fetus not baby. The angry even for adults seems to be directed at the picture holder not the fact that someone is being killed inside… I would wonder if someone was holding a dead baby that they found at the abortion site if you would say "Shame on you for holding that dead baby."
Is it OK for parents to protect their child? If I knew that their was an abortion clinic down the street, I wouldn’t try not to go near it. I wouldn’t go by it the on day that they do abortions because that is usually the day you may find a picture of this sort.
As a parent when I didn’t want my child to see something, I would distract them. I was really good at this. AS I said we only have a few signs here and I defend their right to get the message out that they are killing children inside. There are also signs which say abortion exploits women and men. I don’t believe you are arguing against them…
Gam, remember that the topic of this thread (chosen by Vern, btw), is specifically the practice of showing giant photographs of bloody dismembered bodies of babies in places where preschoolers and young children are known to be highly likely to be. Those of us who believe that such a practice is wrong are trying very hard to keep on the topic. There are a great many things in this world about which I am outraged and angry, but they are not the topics of this thread, so I don’t direct my discussion here toward them. That I am not discussing them here is not in any way an indication that I do not care about them.
I have demonstrably seen these photos many times. I am fully aware of exactly what happens in an abortion. I have said over and over that ending a human life is a terrible and tragic thing. Certainly, folks have every right to protest this, but not
in any way imaginable.
In the example you cited, I certainly indeed would say “shame on you for holding that baby”
if the person in question was parading that baby up and down the streets in search of publicity and shock value and otherwise treating it as an object to be used for their own purposes rather than as a human being worthy of respect and dignity, even in death. Are these photographs the equivalent of that? No.
As I said, if these pictures were confined to places where one might reasonably expect to find them—outside the abortion clinic, in publicized marches, etc, —this wouldn’t be an issue. Parents of young children could make an informed decision.
As a parent there are plenty of inappropriate things in this world from which I have had to distract my child. I have had to distract her from the drunk on the street, the couple having sex in a public park in the afternoon, etc. I am, unfortunately, no longer surprised that I have to lump the public behavior of some Christians operating in the name of Jesus in with those other examples.
Yes, I have had to work incredibly hard to keep her from being exposed to this particular depiction of the ugliness of which humans are capable. Fortunately, I don’t typically go near the mall on the weekend (or at all if I can avoid it) and the trucks are not common in the areas where I go…yet. I was able to barely manage to get the pictures off of my car in the grocery store parking lot and dispose of the cards in the McDonalds’ restroom (the one with the big playspace) without her seeing them.
I have to go through enough fairly rigorous methods to avoid having her exposed to the deluge of sex and violence that come out of Hollywood before she is ready to deal with such. Do you
really think that Jesus had in mind Christians engaging in public behavior in His name that requires parents to have a battle plan to avoid seeing them in order just to responsibly parent their young children?
