Posted on 06/12/2006 5:05:28 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
A high point of Nat Hentoff for me was that he used his column in the Village Voice (no less) to run a series of ten weeks of full-page articles defending the Rescuers brutalized by the West Hartford Police Department in one of the worst carnivals of police brutality ever witnessed. He also attacked West Hartford's federal racketeering suit (later dismissed on the merits) against a financially vulnerable local shopper newspaper in rural New York for daring to criticize West Hartford and its hired thugs while understandably refraining from attacking the more financially robust Waterbury Republican-American which headlined its page length editorial attack on the West Hartford fashionables by referencing West Hartford's police chief in Bull Connor Rides Again in West Hartford.
Hentoff is very old and probably still an agnostic or atheist. Pray for him as he is a wonderfully just and innocent man.
I find it humorous that you attack an anectodal story (the typical modus operandi of the pro-aborts) while trying to diffuse the real message of Mr. Hentoff's piece:
Our Supreme Court devalued slaves' humanity and did so again to our own posterity in Roe v Wade.
Both are grievious, immoral errors and hopefully Roe v Wade will some day soon be corrected.
American children in the womb are only devalued because their parents do not want them and a perverted medical system allows and performs the killing.
"A nation that kills its children is a nation withouot hope." Pope John Paul II.
Dr. Nathanson was personally responsible, through his thriving NYC mill for 250,000 abortions. He was a lifelong atheist then. He is now a Roman Catholic and created the Bernadele Foundation to use the profits he received from abortion to seek its abolition.
There have been other abortion doctors who have taken the same path prepared for St. Paul on his way to Damascus.
45% of all Hispanics voted GOP in 2004. Cubans voted about 75-80% GOP. But Puerto Ricans who have far greater numbers than Cubans do voted easily more than 80% Demonrat. That means a probable majority of Mexicans voted for Dubya. Of course, the wildly indignant Tancredoist anti-immigration dervishes are doing their level best to see to it that Mexicans will vote Demonrat in the future.
He is married to Margot Hentoff, also a writer (I've seen her pieces in the New York Review of Books); they have a son, Thomas Hentoff.
Nat has written with enormous warmth and sympathy for many believers, both Jewish and Christian (he's certainly not a "militant" atheist) and has always defended the religious and free-speech rights of Christians, as any good civil-libertarian should!
When his son was Bar Mitzvah, Nat wrote that he felt very proud and moved, though he wasn't sure why. He sometimes describes himself as a "Jewish atheist" but more recently has called himself a "non-practicing Jew."
I personally think that at the Judgment, it will be remembered that he defended the unborn babies; and he will hear these words from th Mensch of Mensches: "Whatsoever you did for the last of My brethren, that you did unto Me."
Ahem: "least" of my brethren...
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Look at post 70! How funny because we were on the exact same wavelength I thought it was that, but you had the numbers. Thanks!
I stand gratefully corrected. May God bless you and yours!
What a concept! Read the article?? Nah. Just emote and steer the discussion off on rabbit trails is S.O.P. for too many around here.
Yes.
On the other hand, the SEIU, Teamsters, Laborers, and UFCW are doing their level best to snatch the Mexican vote as we speak.
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