Truth in Signage

Here in Our Town we have an anti-abortion group operating out of a storefront downtown, staffed by volunteers from local churches. They counsel scared young girls and try to convince them to keep their babies and either parenting them or putting them up for adoption.

If that's what they think is God's calling, so be it and more power to them.

What twists my knickers is the sign out front says "Medical Center" when in fact no medical services are provided. They provide free pregnancy tests, but anyone can do that themselves at home, albeit not for free. Otherwise, the folks inside are church ladies who tell them how terrible abortion will be.

The horrible side-effects of abortion posted on the "medical center's" website have been refuted in a July 2006 U.S. House of Representatives report, "False and Misleading Health Information Provided by Federally Funded Pregnancy Resource Centers."

I think it is abominable that "Christians" use such underhanded tactics to confuse and confound an otherwise emotionally fragile kid. The girls don't need that. They need sound medical counseling, not Bible-thumping nonsense.

If the "medical center" wants to preach their no-choice sermon, they have that right. Just change the sign outside to "Christians for Pro-Life" or something that better reflects what is inside the door.

God's Wingnuts

I watched CNN's special report "God's Warriors - Christians" late Thursday night. Not believing what I had just seen and heard, I watched it again in an encore presentation. It upset me so much I couldn't get to sleep. Are there really *that* many religious right-wingnuts out there in America??? It gave me the heebie-jeebies.

When I see hoards of people whipped into a religious fervor, lead by some media-slick guy on a stage, my brain screams, "Cult, Cult, Cult! Brainwashing! Lemmings! Danger Will Robinson!" I want to get away from those folks as quickly as possible. It is especially disturbing to see when the hoards are young children and teenagers.

Faith in God is a good thing. Christianity, Judaism, or Islam is too according to one's personal belief in prophets or lack thereof. However, this...this is not faith, not Christianity, not religion. It is something else entirely; something dark, sinister, evil, fetid.

Somewhere, somehow, Christianity in America has gone horribly wrong.