Posted on 09/20/2006 6:23:31 AM PDT by freepatriot32
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, had a way with words. In 1922, she wrote a book chapter titled "The Cruelty of Charity." Charity toward the poor, especially toward poor immigrants, she opined, only "encourages the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others, which brings with it … a dead weight of human waste."
(Excerpt) Read more at christianitytoday.com ...
right ideas about the problems, but wrong ideas about the solution (abortions)
“show mercy so that you will receive mercy” (Matthew 18:35 )
Not a bad article.
Sorry, but this comment absolutely made my blood boil. I'm raising a grandchild so I know of what I speak. This attitude SHOULD NOT be encouraged.
80% of those committed to federal prisons for dangerous crimes: murder, assault, armed robbery, rape, etc. come from the children of OOW births.
Reducing the number of such births is of crucial importance to society especially the Black community which in many cities is under a Reign of Terror from these youths.
Those who do not recognize this and just say "it's ok" are adding to the problem.
I was the child of a young unwed mother. I was lucky that my dad did take responsibility for me.
That attitude is a prescription for disaster as we can see everywhere around us.
Yeah...don't I know it.
I admit I did not read this whole article, as the author's style seems quite verbose.
But this quote, supposedly from the author's daughter, jumped out at me: "Mom, if God gives me a baby before I am married, I won't worry. I know that you and Dad would take care of it so that I could stay in school."
What? Is she serious? Is God in the business of just "giving" babies to teens these days? Has this author not told her daughter how babies are created, and that the daughter's actions have EVERYTHING to do with whether she will be "given" a baby? And the daughter would certainly be an anomaly to have two parents who would assume the responsibility to care for this child. How common would that be in today's world?
You beat me to it!
The author's reply should be: "Yes, we would take care of it. We would find a Christian adoption agency to place the child in a Christian two parent home, because that is what God says is best."
I don't know any Christians who stigmatize unwed mothers or make them feel unwelcome.
Agree totally.
had the teens been acting in a christan like manner, they wouldn't become pregnant in the first place. to blame christians for their reception of un-christian-like behavior is like blaming a fish for not liking dry land.
Excellent!
I agree with you, although I don't have your experience. "If God gives me a baby"? God doesn't go around knocking up girls. He did it once only, and I don't think anyone else should expect that kind of outcome.
You are 100% right on the money. Well said.
Sleazywood and its populace not only say "it's ok" but they DO it and glorify it. The number of Sleazywood slut actresses shacking up and having babies OOW and with other woman in lesbian relationships (Rosie O'Donnell, Jodie Foster, to name two) is disgusting and dismaying.
The series Murphy, with Candice Bergen, added that when Murphy had a baby OOW and dismissed the father of the baby as nonsequiter and unimportant.
Remember? That's when V.P. Dan Qualye made the remark about fathers being IMPORTANT....and was EXCORIATED by the entire immoral/amoral group of pagan, athiest, godless, souless trash that calls itself the MSM, Sleazywoodians and feministsazis.
Our African-American community has a 70% OOW rate and pays the price of that enormous failure to its children.
One of these days it WILL listen to folks like Bill Cosby and stop blaming everyone else (Read that as whites.) for ITS failure in that area.
I always wondered why their hellfire and brimstone ministers didn't HAMMER away at that gigantic failure. Either they DID and no one listened or they DIDN'T because they knew no one would listen.
Either way, the morality has to be part of the community and culture but the example and role model has to come from the top.
I guess that leaves Rev. Jackson out of the picture.
I don't either. Unfortunately, I do know some that by their efforts NOT to "stigmatize" have gone all the way to another extreme - I'll call it indulgence - and in doing so have watched more than one unwed mother of one child become an unwed mother of multiple children.
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