Not Just Any Old Pro-Life Demonstration
June 28th, 2008 at 03:16am Mark Noonan
The news story:
A coalition of African-American pastors and other pro-lifers marched on the headquarters of both major American political parties in Washington on Thursday to demand that the party committees and party candidates for office refuse the $10 million that Planned Parenthood has said it will spend to influence the 2008 elections.
Decrying what they called its “philosophy of prenatal murder in the black community,” the marchers also demanded that Planned Parenthood be stripped of its $350 million in taxpayer funding it receives each year.
The marchers visited the headquarters of both the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee. They were led by Day Gardner of the National Black Pro-Life Union and Dr. Alveda King, who is a niece of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pastor Stephen Broden of Fair Park Bible Fellowship, speaking at a press conference, described the goal of the march:
“We find it a conflict of interest that Planned Parenthood receives federal funding and with that funding it contributes to Republican and Democratic candidates who support their philosophy of prenatal murder in the black community. Congress gives money to Planned Parenthood and Planned Parenthood in return gives the money to pro-abortion candidates. There’s something rotten in the halls of Congress.”
And just which party do you think will give a more open-minded hearing to these demonstrators? Given that since 1990 pro-abortion donations to politics have never been less than 61% to the Democrats and are so far 91% to Democrats in 2008, methinks this protest against pro-abortion donors will fall on deaf ears over at the Democratic National Committee.
I bring this particular news story up because it highlights two things:
1. The African-American community in large measure shares the social values of conservatism, especially Christian conservatism.
2. There are a lot of cross-currents going on out there, some of which may not be showing up in polling.
Now, don’t get me wrong - with Obama as the nominee, I can’t see him getting less than 95% of the black vote in November; even a lot of conservative blacks are considering Obama because, lets face it, just like with Catholics and Kennedy in 1960 and Jews and Lieberman in 2000, there is something deeply satisfying in one of your own making it to the heights…especially if your people are or have been a despised minority (and Catholics, Jews and blacks all have a legacy of bigotry against them - though, of course, black Americans had it by far the worst). But the fact that these voices are being raised in direct contravention of core Democratic principles shows that there is a means for the GOP to eventually make inroads into the black vote. Not in 2008 - but in 2012 and beyond. It goes on issue after issue - black Americans favor school choice; black Americans favor restrictions on abortion; black Americans oppose gay marriage. All we need do is break down the wall of distrust between black Americans and the conservative movement and we’ll be on to great things. That wall was partially created by the conservative movement (when we largely wrote off the once strongly GOP black vote), partially created by a careful and very cynical policy of the Democratic leadership to heighten fear of the GOP in the black community by slanderous attacks on the GOP over race issues - breaking down this wall won’t be easy, but it must be done.
While we have many goals as a movement, the primary purpose of conservatism must be the destruction of the left. We know that the left’s entire worldview is based on a lie backed by a series of subsequent lies. It is a baleful influence on any activity it tries to involve itself in - and the sincerity of its adherents must not blind us to the necessity of destroying the left, as a political force, for good and all. We can’t do it as long as the left is able to reach outside of its urban fever swamps and get the votes of, say, union workers and black Americans who have absolutely nothing in common with left other than a shared fear of the GOP. Take away the fear, and union voters (other than public employee unions) and black Americans will stream into the GOP in ever rising numbers. Reduced to a few kooky places on the map, the left will then be marginalised and we can procede with the certainty that even under a liberal government the people running the show will be animated by a love of America rather than, as the left is today, animated for a hatred of America, and especially its Christian elements.
Some on the left - including here on this little blog - have tried to tell us that the abortion issue doesn’t matter. Actually, it matters more than people imagine. Not because it will, in and of itself, change the election results but because it puts such a stark contrast between left and right, now divided into the Culture of Death and the Culture of Life. Abortion is a piece of the puzzle on how to destroy the left, and we’d be worse than fools to refuse to avail ourselves of the strength the pro-life movement brings to conservatism and the GOP.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Life Issues
13 Comments Add your own
1. french student | June 28th, 2008 at 8:44 am
You know, before you can use this example as a trend, there is a little bit of info that you need to provide.
How many people were there at this demonstration? You quoted this article which was a verbatim quote from the CNA (catholic news agency) but even the original article does not give any indication of the actual number of protesters beyond the vague “several” pastors, four of which are named in the article.
So, how many were there?
My guess is : fewer than a thousand people, all told. Otherwise you would have quoted from a less… specialised source.
2. neocon | June 28th, 2008 at 9:18 am
“…their philosophy of prenatal murder in the black community.” - Pastor Stephen Broden
Why do liberals support the prenatal murder of minorities?
I have also often wondered by Sharpton and jackson are not aggressively campaigning for Obama. I wonder why that is?
And how many people are required french student before you’ll consider their complaints valid?
peace, neocon
3. Sarah Bloch | June 28th, 2008 at 10:31 am
You are spot on with all those connections between black Americans and conservatism even their Christian values and deeply held Faith. but even with all of this they also know that as a voting member of the GOP their vote will count as much today as it did to the Dixiecrats of the South of the 1940s.
Black voters do not want to sit at the kid’s table they want their seat at THE table and they can only get that as voters for the Democratic Party.
4. neocon | June 28th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Sarah,
Facts are that African Americans have had more seats at the table with this administration than any other in history. That’s undeniable.
And your assertion that it is in their best interests to vote Democrat, as a group, is egregiously prejudicial and racist.
Do you not see them as individuals?
peace, neocon
5. Sarah Bloch | June 28th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
4. neocon | June 28th, 2008 at 10:54 am
I wasn’t speaking in terms of the administration i was speaking in terms of the party.
Not seats like the ones Colin Powell had and Condi Rice still has that are for show I mean at the real table where policy decisions are made at the RNC and RNCC. I am sure you could point to Ken Blackwell here but beyond him and Michael Steele there’s slim pickings.
Then you can go down to the state party levels and the doors are really shut to blacks unless they can find a candidate that values money over the treatment of their own people. Now the boom in legal immigrants from Nicaragua, Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala and their catholic and generally pro-life leaning has opened doors and windows to them. But for some reason they are still not “flocking” to the GOP. That draconian immigration policy of deportation the anti-Bush wing of the “Grand New Party” must be what’s holding this flood back.
6. neocon | June 28th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Draconian Immigration Policy?
You mean the amnesty that was proposed earlier in the year by Bush? But, fortunately was shot down by the voting public.
Your assertion that Democrats are the answer to African Americans problems is just astonishingly ignorant, especially in light of the fact that the Democrats controlled Congress for 40 years prior to 1994 and accomplished absolutely nothing with their “war on poverty”.
Democrats offer flowery rhetoric and zero results. That again, is undeniable.
And you are still speaking in terms of groups. That is embarrasingly stereotypical and racist. We are all individuals. It might serve you well to start thinking along those lines and quit stereotyping minorities and conservatives.
peace, neocon
7. The New Conservative | June 28th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Sarah,
This year South Carolina elected a African American to represent it on the RNC Glenn McCall. He ran against a white guy and won by a 2-1 margain. Offically it was unanimous because the guy he ran with asked that it be done by proclaimation. However I will admit the Republican Party has a lot of work to do in the African American community. President Bush was actually making progress before Katrina happened. I remember thinking that all the work we had done on relations with African Americans was gone. The worst thing is the Mayor of New Orleans and Governor of Louisana were far more responsible than President Bush was. All the States with Republican Governors handled it much better than Louisana.
8. The New Conservative | June 28th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
http://thenewconservatives.blogspot.com/
9. Tractatus | June 28th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Democrats offer flowery rhetoric and zero results.
And you are still speaking in terms of groups. That is embarrasingly stereotypical
From zero to hypocrisy in three sentences. Good times, good times.
10. neocon | June 28th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Tractutus,
That’s a statement of fact. Not presumption.
Unless you can demonstrate that poverty was officially ended under the Democratic leadership.
have a nice day
peace, neocon
11. Eric T | June 28th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Sarah,
check this out!
http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.DYK-Why%20MLK%20was%20a%20Republican
http://www.theblackrepublican.net/
12. Plantation Owner | June 29th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Take it for what it’s worth…..
From the Daily Pitchfork - HOW TO SPEAK TO A ONE ISSUE CONSERVATIVE; 14 MELNAR 2 AS:
[Ed. Note: Sarah Bloch, was born in Duchess County, New York in 1844. At the age of 13 she ran away from home after disovering she was pregnant and her mother told her that because she had been in sin a boy she was going to Hell. Sarah was eventually found on the side of the road near what is now West Milford, Pennsylvania by Gretchen Beecher a midwife and her husband Doctor Robert Beecher. Sarah Bloch reveals personal details about her life below in a response to Mark Noonan’s BlogsforVictory post where the Catholic Church comes out against all forms of torture. The USCCB report on torture can be read here. What she has left out is that she was a soldier in the Union army and at the ripe old age of 17 fought at Gettysburg. She was wounded twice and finshed her time in army as a nurse in Vicksburg, MS. An advocate for the rights of all citizens of the Hellac Empire Ms. Bloch remains one of the great voices for freedom and liberty in America well over 100 Terran years after her death.–Editor-in-Chief.]
From her post in the Catholic View on Torture thread #2:
“The whole abortion issue makes me wonder Noonan but of course your private life is private. From this point on mine isn’t I had two in my lifetime one as a teen that was too young even in those days when I lived to have a child at 13 when it was common for women of that age to be married and again at 27 as the product of a rape. You can feel free to call me a liberal baby killer but I made my choices and I stand by them and I don’t feel any sort of racial or religious remorse because they were decisions I had to make . They cost me my family and many of my friends and the last even cost me my marriage but to this day and many, many days have passed since then I still honor the midwife who was there both time with skill and attention in an age when abortion wasn’t legal because of pious men who would panic if confronted with a product of their own infidelity and could not find a toilet down which to flush their own bloody indiscretions.”
Are these people for real? Can we honestly trust what they say as truth?
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