Women's March is the Biggest Protest on US History as an Estimated 2.9 Million March

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RCinMT said:
No, politicians care about winning elections. Which is unfortunate regardless one one’s political views, but true. Trump proved that.
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Despite the occasional anomaly (like last year) the number of people who support you are generally determinative of whether you will win the election. So yes, politicians care about winning. But they do that by getting a large number of people to vote for them - the larger the better. No politician goes into an election thinking “my popular support may be low, but I’m going to win that election anyway.” Politicians do care about popular support as the means of getting elected.
 
RCinMT said:
So you want to defend the things that were said at the Born Women’s March?
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The women’s march was a loosely organized event with many many agendas. Some of them despicable. Some of them admirable. As with such an event of this size and diversity, you can always find someone who is saying something that cannot be defended. I don’t know if the overall impact of the event was good or bad. I just know it represents a large number of people.
 
LeafByNiggle said:
The women’s march was a loosely organized event with many many agendas. Some of them despicable. Some of them admirable. As with such an event of this size and diversity, you can always find someone who is saying something that cannot be defended. I don’t know if the overall impact of the event was good or bad. I just know it represents a large number of people.
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It didn’t seem loosely organized to me. It had staff, interns and sponsors with different levels of designation. The organizers stated an agenda. I would say their stated aims were almost entirely admirable but how they exercised those principals in reality was not.
 
DeniseNY said:
Did you not hear Ashley Judd’s “poem” and the line about taxing of tampons?
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I did not. My lack of television is proving a blessing.
Perhaps one might choose to quote it in the privacy of one’s living room, rather than inflicting it on viewers of Catholic fora?
A link with a warning would have been much more appropriate.
As it is, Michael68’s choice of comments (unattributed to Miss Judd in his post), recycle old stereotypes which reduce women to their sexuality.
One should be able to expect more from Christian charity, regardless of their support or opposition for the march.
 
Della said:
Actually, these gals are reacting to overblown rhetoric and scare tactics left over from the election. None of the “horrors” they think will happen are going to happen. No one will be taking any true freedoms away from them. Rather, under the new administration, agendas of the few will no longer be imposed on the many, as is only right and proper in a representative democracy.
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RCinMT said:
It’s disparaging to say somebody who is pro-choice is dissenting from Church teaching? Weird, is it disparaging to say a pro-life democrat dissents from the party platform?
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I have no idea about the views of all the nuns who participated and no idea what CAF considers to be negative remarks against Catholic religious.
 
Sy_Noe said:
I have no idea about the views of all the nuns who participated and no idea what CAF considers to be negative remarks against Catholic religious.
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Truth is truth, Sy. Truth: for a democrat to be pro-life is to violate the party platform. Truth: for a professed woman religious to be pro-choice is to disregard Church teaching and provide a false or misleading witness to the faithful.

The truth is neither negative nor disparaging.
 
simpleas said:
I’m not anyway that informed, but I would think he could stop the international funding, but do you all think he will be able to stop funding in america?
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Well the President has previously said, "There are wonderful things having to do with women’s health” when it comes to Planned Parenthood.

“We have to help women,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “So we have to look at the positives, also, for Planned Parenthood.”

Then, Trump said he opposes federal grants going toward Planned Parenthood’s abortion practices, but noted that abortions make up a “small part” of the organization.

“Maybe unless they stop with the abortions, we don’t do the funding for the stuff that we want,” he said. “I’m totally against the abortion aspect of Planned Parenthood, but I’ve had many women, I’ve had many Republican, conservative women come up and say Planned Parenthood serves a good function, other than that one aspect.”

He told CNN he would examine the Planned Parenthood’s practices to determine the “good aspects” that help women.

“I’m sure they do some things properly and good and that are good for women, and I would look at that, Trump said.

lifenews.com/2016/02/14/donald-trump-planned-parenthood-does-wonderful-things-but-not-when-it-comes-to-abortion/

But despite all that said by Trump, unless VP Mike Pence and other conservatives he has surrounded himself with, don’t have his ear on that particular day and he vetoes any such legislation passed by the Congress that has defunding stuck in it somewhere, I think he will be able to. But otoh when it comes to Donald Trump, who knows about anything for sure until it is actually done.
 
RCinMT said:
Truth is truth, Sy. Truth: for a democrat to be pro-life is to violate the party platform. Truth: for a professed woman religious to be pro-choice is to disregard Church teaching and provide a false or misleading witness to the faithful.

The truth is neither negative nor disparaging.
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I’m not following. How would you know for certain that every single nun who participated in the march is pro choice? I honestly find that extremely hard to believe.
 
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