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Abortion float freaks out city's Halloween parade
World Net Daily ^ | July 31, 2005

Posted on 7/31/2005, 10:37:24 PM by JustAnotherOkie

While Halloween thrives on images of the gruesome and macabre, apparently abortion is over the edge for a Pennsylvania town which is considering axing its traditional holiday parade due to an abortion-related float.

Abortion protesters march in 2003 Halloween parade in York, Pa.

At issue is "Dr. Butcher's Chop Shop of Choice Cuts," a float featuring fake bloody fetuses and mutilated body parts, sponsored by Rev. Jim Grove of the Heritage Baptist Church in Loganville, Pa.

Some 30,000 people attend the Halloween parade in the city of York, but appearances in recent years by Grove and fellow pro-lifers have caused controversy due to their display of giant photographs of aborted children.

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Not much I can add to this one.

This might be considered art.

1 posted on 7/31/2005, 10:37:24 PM by JustAnotherOkie
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To: JustAnotherOkie

Oh, it isn't art. It's political commentary that liberals would rather outlaw than tolerate.


2 posted on 7/31/2005, 10:39:01 PM by Reactionary
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To: JustAnotherOkie

bttt


3 posted on 7/31/2005, 10:39:30 PM by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Reactionary

Exactly. More hypocrisy from the far-left.


4 posted on 7/31/2005, 10:42:42 PM by CounterCounterCulture
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To: JustAnotherOkie

5 posted on 7/31/2005, 10:43:12 PM by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: JustAnotherOkie

The story at the link isn't the same as posted. AP cold feet or Freeper leg-pulling?


6 posted on 7/31/2005, 10:44:21 PM by BfloGuy
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To: JustAnotherOkie

The title and link do not match. Do you have a working link to the article you posted? Thanks.


7 posted on 7/31/2005, 10:45:15 PM by Sidebar Moderator
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To: BenLurkin

bttp....like to liberals squirm.


8 posted on 7/31/2005, 10:46:21 PM by pointsal
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To: JustAnotherOkie

How appropriate is this for an audience of children? Should we see abortion floats in Thanksgiving and Christmas parades, too?


9 posted on 7/31/2005, 10:46:45 PM by Dog Gone
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Here's a different article...

Anti-Abortion Float Prompts Organizers To Pull Out Of York Parade

10 posted on 7/31/2005, 10:49:20 PM by CounterCounterCulture
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To: Sidebar Moderator
Here's a WorldNet Daily article...

Abortion float freaks out city's Halloween parade

11 posted on 7/31/2005, 10:51:35 PM by CounterCounterCulture
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To: Dog Gone

Exactly. There is a time and place for explicit messages but a Halloween parade is not it. If, by chance, the parade is already contaminated by Planned Parenthood types, then a positive "choose life"-type float would be more appropriate.


12 posted on 7/31/2005, 10:52:31 PM by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

Not like kids are not being bombarded by explicit messages on MVT and tons of other shows.

Your message doesn't really wash.


13 posted on 7/31/2005, 10:55:09 PM by JustAnotherOkie
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Yeah, it does wash. You want to ruin the innocence of childhood by showing mangled fetuses to kids who are expecting Casper the Friendly Ghost.

Not all parents let their kids watch crap TV.

It's not going to happen now, anyway. These folks have succeeded in cancelling a big town event, making business owners and those who liked the parade upset.

How that ends up making the pro-life movement look good escapes me.

14 posted on 7/31/2005, 10:58:55 PM by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone
I'm with you. A float like this is as appropriate for a town parade as a grisly "Iraq war" entry created by a rabid Leftist would be.

Sheesh. Whatever happened to pumpkins and haunted houses? Must everything be political?

15 posted on 7/31/2005, 11:01:48 PM by JennysCool (Be good, and you will be lonesome. - Mark Twain)
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To: JustAnotherOkie

Yes, it does. Keep stuff like that the hell out of Halloween parades. I'm pro-death-penalty but even a Halloween parade isn't apprpriate for a "Kill Mumia" float complete with gallows.


16 posted on 7/31/2005, 11:05:14 PM by Larry Lucido
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To: Dog Gone
How that ends up making the pro-life movement look good escapes me.

It's not about making the pro-life movement look good (that's cheap spin); it's about making abortion look bad--and that's easy. All you have to do is show it for what is.

The problem is that too many middle class town fathers and mothers are so complicit in the tragedy they worry about their town parade more than they worry about children being killed. Up the rhetoric until these philistines wake up, I say.
17 posted on 7/31/2005, 11:07:34 PM by farmer18th ("The fool says in his heart there is no God.")
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There's a time and place for everything. Ruining a town parade accomplishes nothing except create resentment.

Tell me again how that's a plus.

18 posted on 7/31/2005, 11:13:07 PM by Dog Gone
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It's not?

Hey, one of my all time favorite events at Halloween was my uncle's "pass the guts" session ~ there we were, in a dimly lit room, dressed in our costumes, and boxes of "guts" and "parts" were passed around.

He was a butcher, so they were the real thing, but from animals~!

It was a ball.

So, using the real thing is not as funny? Where you been?

19 posted on 7/31/2005, 11:19:49 PM by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again?)
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To: Dog Gone

they should make dozens of copies of the float and enter it in every gay parade in the nation.


20 posted on 7/31/2005, 11:22:10 PM by Texas_Conservative2
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