It seems that the president of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, Kathy Kneer, is terrified of Christians who leave the four walls of their churches and homes and enter the world of public policy.
In a recent L.A. Times article, Ms. Kneer, whose organization offers abortion services, spoke these words concerning James Holman, the main proponent of Prop 73 (an initiative to require parental notification for abortions performed on minors): “It concerns us that someone with such deep personal and religious views is able to enter the arena of public policy and essentially force those views on everyone else.”
Presumably Ms. Kneer is okay with public policy activists forcing their views on other people (because that’s what public policy does) as long as they are not deeply religious.
Just because you’re a religious person, or happen to hold a view that is consistent with a particular religious teaching, doesn’t mean that your opinions are insignificant or unintelligent.
Someone’s values and opinions will control public policy. Will it be yours or Kneers?
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In our relativistic age, it always is so ironic that religious informed views are not acceptable, when anything and everything else is a valid viewpoint. It also always interests me that non-Christians expect Christians to keep "religion" in a box, and are surprised to find that, in fact, Christianity informs our whole lives (hopefully!).
Is she a parent? Because as Arnold, your pro-choice governor realized, there is something deeply wrong with a society that requires parental permission to give your 12-year old daughter a band-aid and some antiseptic spray at school and lets her go to the abortion clinic afterwards for her abortion without notifying you.
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