Re: works to go with faith: I wonder how many more times that needs to be said before it starts sinking in for the folks who need to hear it.
Re: suffering in other places: I remember seeing an analysis (probably on a page twistedchick linked to) of how many religious-right web sites had links or information or encouragement to donate to tsunami relief efforts, versus how many religious-left ones did. (IIRC, nearly all the left-leaning ones did, but none or nearly none of the right-wing ones.)
Re: abortion-issue nomenclature: Really, both sides are indulging in a bit of spin so as to have a pro-something name, which sounds nicer and easier to get behind than an anti-something name. They're really the anti-abortionists and the anti-restrictiveness camps. I do feel that the "pro-choice" label is less of a stretch than the pro-life one, though I wonder whether that's partly because of my own bias on that issue. (After all, the pro-choice folks are in fact saying, "let it be each individual's moral decision", while the pro-life people are saying "preserve life" but mostly overlooking life-beyond-the-womb.)
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Re: suffering in other places: I remember seeing an analysis (probably on a page
Re: abortion-issue nomenclature: Really, both sides are indulging in a bit of spin so as to have a pro-something name, which sounds nicer and easier to get behind than an anti-something name. They're really the anti-abortionists and the anti-restrictiveness camps. I do feel that the "pro-choice" label is less of a stretch than the pro-life one, though I wonder whether that's partly because of my own bias on that issue. (After all, the pro-choice folks are in fact saying, "let it be each individual's moral decision", while the pro-life people are saying "preserve life" but mostly overlooking life-beyond-the-womb.)