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Facebook Memo

Welcome a guest blogger - My sister's thoughts on Face Book
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Dear Friends:

I guess I am a "Oldster" that likes to facebook...I try to keep a open mind with what my young friends put on their walls and I hope they respect me enough to enjoy the hokey oldster stuff I put on mine!! I love the way it helps me stay in touch with all the young and old people I know!!

The only time I respond to someones status is to have some fun with it. I try to keep religion and politics (I do have a profile photo of a Santa for President Santa statue..but know one knows what party the Santa is from) out of my status as I don't want my face book to be a site of conflict but more of friendship with people from all walks of life.

Some people say they don't have time to facebook but I think it saves me time. It keeps me in touch with a lot of friends and family with out taking too much of their or my time. I also keep my friendship list small and managable. I also love being able to share my newest photos with very little effort. Better than having them sit down in millions of albums that no one ever looks at and I don't have to bore people with my photos when I see them. This way the can enjoy them at their leisure.

Well its been fun facebooking with all of you and until I think it is not enjoyable i will keep on doing it. Beats watching some of the 4th grade level t.v. programs that they try to feed us every night of the week.. Happy Facebooking!!

Peg

Pro Life Roots

This week's America Magazine has several excellent articles on the roots of the Pro Life Movement in the US which existed prior to Roe v Wade, the role of Catholics in the recent election and the multigenerational impact of abortion on a family.

Human rights support, for Catholics, begin in the Church's social doctrine. The right of all humans to life itself is violated daily in our world. Vatican II published a list of actions opposed to life. The list is as follows.


PASTORAL CONSTITUTION ON THE CHURCH IN THE MODERN WORLD (1964)

(from Section 27)"Furthermore, whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia or wilful self-destruction, whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, torments inflicted on body or mind, attempts to coerce the will itself; whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed. They poison human society, but they do more harm to those who practice them than those who suffer from the injury. Moreover, they are supreme dishonor to the Creator."

How We (Mis)Treat Our Friends

My own pro life activism dates to the mid 1960s. I remember taking the pro life side in debates held by our local democratic club. I fully expected that opposition to abortion was the next task of the human rights activists, liberals and Democrats. Over the next decade the anti human rights (and anti religious) faction succeeded in moving the Democratic Party to the right. In the process liberals, trade unionists and religious Democrats were progressively alienated. See my earlier post as to the resulting fragmentation of human rights supporters.

Canadian Pro Life supporters face a different situation than we in the US yet they seem to share our tendency to shoot ourselves in the foot by mistreating our friends. For a view of the resulting frustration read a Canadian Pro Lifer Blogger's posting.

After an absence of over thirty years I was pleased to find pro life liberals still active and successful in Minnesota. Yet the recent elections confirmed again the tendency of many pro life activists to alienate their friends. While the Minnesota Right To Life community endorses pro life candidates of any party this is not the case in many states. The National Human Rights Organization That I have been part of for at least thirty years angered me a few elections ago by not endorsing our pro life Congressman, a Democrat, even though he was opposed by a pro abortion Republican.

We now have a President that has taken strong pro life stands against torture, war and genocide. He even said, this week, that the value of all human life demands we work together to reduce abortions. You can bet that a fair number of statements will be made insisting that we can't join in that effort because the President falls short of our ideals. We will again appear to be willing to accept the death of many more babies rather than sully our hands with incremental progress.

World Marriage Sunday

Please click on the title above to read a fellow Deacon's Sermon for World Marriage Sunday.