tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43384195273123194262024-03-13T12:27:57.663-04:00Life Advocates Life Advocates AshevilleM.H............................http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700448714612192198noreply@blogger.comBlogger203125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338419527312319426.post-48597775236051814982022-06-24T23:11:00.001-04:002022-06-24T23:11:10.697-04:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifAHsWZ_wV6419-rqb10WlDM5qahZ4LOBa2skG9hq0MAq_X5H2V754UTjFpq44Onhq9jTerOmjnockrWQ6W8rCVDevmzBzNgaopQhlQJXOUZsV2KZBMNoJhi6vXw5TOiuUL-KQ2U_rfVfrMM6wWtvSm8h7JvS5DQNAEWAQvfHBebqDMG6d5IRSL-DDgw/s4032/IMG_5014%5B1%5D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifAHsWZ_wV6419-rqb10WlDM5qahZ4LOBa2skG9hq0MAq_X5H2V754UTjFpq44Onhq9jTerOmjnockrWQ6W8rCVDevmzBzNgaopQhlQJXOUZsV2KZBMNoJhi6vXw5TOiuUL-KQ2U_rfVfrMM6wWtvSm8h7JvS5DQNAEWAQvfHBebqDMG6d5IRSL-DDgw/w288-h384/IMG_5014%5B1%5D.JPG" width="288" /></a></div><br /><p></p>M.H............................http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700448714612192198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338419527312319426.post-39493961470001552442022-06-24T22:59:00.003-04:002022-06-24T23:07:12.951-04:00Never Give In<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCEbcL9IQ4S_MouOivCACK3brX-NRCmrMFFwjOU3PV2Bwd0f52my09ocKJGdyI2hGuASkXnLqU7INyB9Y4vblq-S6XepQx0m1flTXWYyihNYwUemDyWNdoIyEPaS4PvAqTtVjJzZlzPz5hP5MsHo5Ebr3owfUPuLQR9KlmTmJz9sGYOdb-SSBuP3rqEg/s4032/IMG_5056%5B1%5D.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCEbcL9IQ4S_MouOivCACK3brX-NRCmrMFFwjOU3PV2Bwd0f52my09ocKJGdyI2hGuASkXnLqU7INyB9Y4vblq-S6XepQx0m1flTXWYyihNYwUemDyWNdoIyEPaS4PvAqTtVjJzZlzPz5hP5MsHo5Ebr3owfUPuLQR9KlmTmJz9sGYOdb-SSBuP3rqEg/w411-h308/IMG_5056%5B1%5D.JPG" width="411" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Today is meaningful as a fulfillment of my life's work, of 30-some years. It's not a final victory, by any means. But reversing <i><b>Roe v. Wade</b></i> was a goal, a marker. Not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning, as Winston Churchill said. And giving a check to whatever joy and relief may be found, is remembering the thousands of </span><span>pre-natal children ever the years, children whose mothers dismissed or ignored my pleas to let them live and my offers of help so that the mothers may more easily do so. All that happening as they passed me by at the abortion sites in Asheville. As of today, the battle has changed, but the killing will continue into the foreseeable future.Now that </span><b><i>Roe</i></b><span> is no more, after a brief tantrum, pro-abortion activists and politicians will quickly shift to the new fronts. And, they believe they have their issue for the upcoming November elections. I have spoken and written thousands and thousands of words on this subject. At this point, I have said all that must be said.</span></span></p><p></p>M.H............................http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700448714612192198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338419527312319426.post-54210041462356057722022-05-14T09:53:00.009-04:002022-05-14T10:02:14.101-04:00“Women’s March on Asheville” & “Bans Off Our Bodies”<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcdYj78KWCqClOPx6DLalk0OmWDzAihkxE_gUK4t2aUnEjKPu0a30C1n0VTyeNio_f15Rk3fBtOO4WxaY5J86bYrlJqq9eUd50-K8mVkKhus50Ywb_C-oBWPnXQ6oUUn7qLlOlWsnvqNrlToGfEF1SDNK1jTErp9TC5qlPKCzQVQEUSLCvJZv-rFKd9A/s1024/IMG_4872%20(708x1024).jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="708" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcdYj78KWCqClOPx6DLalk0OmWDzAihkxE_gUK4t2aUnEjKPu0a30C1n0VTyeNio_f15Rk3fBtOO4WxaY5J86bYrlJqq9eUd50-K8mVkKhus50Ywb_C-oBWPnXQ6oUUn7qLlOlWsnvqNrlToGfEF1SDNK1jTErp9TC5qlPKCzQVQEUSLCvJZv-rFKd9A/s320/IMG_4872%20(708x1024).jpg" width="221" /></a></div><b>Press Statement by Meredith Eugene Hunt</b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the occasion of the “Women’s March on Asheville” and “Bans Off Our Bodies” rallies in
Asheville, North Carolina today, May 14, 2022:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Pro-abortion reaction to Alito’s draft ruling is mass
social hysteria. Nothing they say, nor
how loud they say it changes the reality of abortion hurting a mother and
killing a baby. Absolute “bodily
autonomy” is violent and brutal when it means removing a pre-natal child from
their natural environment, where they are perfectly viable. A child who only
wants to be loved.</p><p class="MsoNormal">“The tragic part of Alito’s draft is it doesn’t recognize
the humanity and personhood of pre-natal human beings. It merely undoes the legal travesty that was <i>Roe v. Wade</i>, something the court should
have done 30 years ago with the <i>PP v.
Casey</i> decision. Pro-abortion people are declaring contempt for a Supreme
Court that no longer affirms destroying a life.
But Justice Alito’s draft is persuasive.
It throws the “issue” of abortion back to the states because abortion
never was a constitutional right.</p><p class="MsoNormal">“If the majority of the Court holds to Alito’s draft, the
angry, absurd rhetoric to intimidate judges and lawmakers will continue in
state legislatures. The effort to drown
and demonize voices who speak for women and children will intensify. Our nation protected the enslavement of human
beings for 200 years. The South relied upon slavery. It took a negation of a
Supreme Court decision and war between states to end slavery</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Until we all recognize the personhood of pre-natal human
beings, while also accommodating the unique nature of women, the division and
conflict will only grow.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Hunt was the Director of Life Advocates in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Asheville</st1:city></st1:place> for 33 years. </b> </p>
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Advocates <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Asheville</st1:place></st1:city></a></span></p>M.H............................http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700448714612192198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338419527312319426.post-84331837652598586282020-08-20T11:54:00.013-04:002020-08-20T12:09:17.685-04:00Wandering Lost in the Wilderness<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM4ACEi-oe-9u9VE08LAMpvZxUbUHYcDsmJhODY0HSVhyphenhyphenQhlsi1T1UXttOXwS6KDeR_NaH1YczF3P1R891Nx-Dp6ICjhQwuBhdR4j_3uhEm5FFR-6YZfVHGOA5fdriH4-C5yQiS7d4Sbb9/s2048/IMG_1370%255B1%255D.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM4ACEi-oe-9u9VE08LAMpvZxUbUHYcDsmJhODY0HSVhyphenhyphenQhlsi1T1UXttOXwS6KDeR_NaH1YczF3P1R891Nx-Dp6ICjhQwuBhdR4j_3uhEm5FFR-6YZfVHGOA5fdriH4-C5yQiS7d4Sbb9/s640/IMG_1370%255B1%255D.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Over the past couple years I been thinking about our status
in the mission to protect pre-natal children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When I say “our” I mean those people who are anti-abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My thoughts could be summarized by a few
simple statements, but until the fall season of 2019, I didn’t have any sort of
figure, metaphor, or illustration to explain them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Preachers, in my experience, often don’t give apt
contemporary examples of Bible stories, and in this case, I was able to do it
myself in a way that seems perfect. Our
pastor had been preaching a series on the life of Moses, and the section on
this particular Sunday covered Numbers 13 and 14, the story of the Lord commanding
Moses to send leaders of the Israelites to scout out the promised land, the
land of Canaan. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Moses asked them to investigate the strength of the people
who lived there, the fertility of the soil, and the fortifications, if any, of
the cities.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">He asked them to bring back
some of the fruits of the land.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">As you
may remember, the scouts came back and said the land truly flowed with “milk
and honey,” but the people were powerful and the cities large and well
fortified.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Then Caleb “silenced the
people” and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can
certainly do it.”</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">At this the other
leaders, other than Joshua, complained that they couldn’t attack the Canaanites
who were far too strong for them. They even began spreading false reports about
the land itself, and said that it was occupied by giants, the Nephilim, who
made them feel as small as grasshoppers. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">That night all the people complained and wept
aloud that they wished they had died in </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">They wanted to appoint a new leader and
return there.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">When Joshua and Caleb
warned them about rebelling against the Lord, and again repeated that they
should not be afraid of the Canaanites and could move into this rich land, the
whole assembly wanted to stone them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">As a result of this rebellion, and their grumbling, the Lord
said that the Israelites would wander in the wilderness for 40 years, one year
for every day they scouted the promised land, and furthermore, every person 20
years or older, those who had seen his miracles, like the parting of the Red
Sea and the pillars of cloud and fire, would die in the wilderness.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">The very thing the people feared that might
result from trying to take the land would happen to them, and in contrast the
children who the people feared would be taken as plunder would be who entered
the land God had promised.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Only Caleb
and Joshua were excepted, because they had remained faithful.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">So, here’s my contemporary application:</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">In our
early Life Advocates newsletters from the late 1980s, we stated as our purpose
the transformation of our culture to value the sanctity of human life.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Practically speaking, our goal was to change
the laws, beginning with a reversal of </span><i style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Roe
v. Wade</i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">, so that pre-natal children would be given the same protection as
born people have, but not only that, but through education and ministry, this
transformation would be peaceful. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Over
time, as people learned the truth about human life in the womb, attitudes and
beliefs would change.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">I believed that
this change was attainable within my lifetime.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">I don’t recall the exact year, (it would have been in the early 1990s)
but, immediately prior to the announcement of the Casey Supreme Court decision,
we had scheduled a press conference at </span><st1:place style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;" w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Asheville</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">City Hall</st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">
to respond.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">We didn’t know how the
decision would go, so we had prepared two statements, one to celebrate the
reversal of </span><i style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Roe</i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">, and the other to
express our disappointment at the failure of the court to reverse it. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">We were, as history shows, to be disappointed.
After all these years, it is hard to believe we thought we were anywhere close,
but the reality of our societal direction and the infection of death was much
starker and more grim than we imagined.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">The real opportunity for change came during the movement
under the banner of Operation Rescue.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">This amounted to nearly a decade when thousands of people across the
country peacefully interposed their bodies between the likely victims of
abortion and the professional killers.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">A
friend of mine was one of the leaders of Operation Rescue. I can’t verify this
without doing a lot of research, but he said that more people were arrested to
trying to save pre-natal children, than were arrested during the entire Civil
Rights movement.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">The principal of rescue,
and usually its practice, unlike picketing, protesting, education, lobbying,
etc, and even ministry to pregnant women, directly addressed the immediate
situation of people about to be murdered.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">I remember those days well. The showdown between life and death was in
play. Christians and others were putting their lives and livelihoods on the
line.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">I remember Dr. James Dobson
calling people to </span><st1:city style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">,
where Randal Terry was taking a stand. Momentum was building, and if the rescue
moment continued, it would have in time inspired and compelled the
transformation for which we had hoped. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">But it failed.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Because
of my acquaintance with one of the leaders of Operation Rescue, I know some of
the inside story of this failure. I won’t go into that right now.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">In the public realm however, Christian
leaders failed to support the rescue movement.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">They either disagreed with “breaking the law” or they remained silent
and uninvolved. Their motives, I can only guess at from this distance. Was it
that they felt they could do more good not being in jail? Where they afraid?
That’s how I felt, though I supported Rescue. Without the widespread support of
the church, those people who actually risked arrest, fines, and jail, became
discouraged, disillusioned, and demoralized. And no one emerged who was willing
to become a life-long martyr. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Despite
several people carrying the name of Rescue for some time, the Rescue Movement
was effectively dead. At this point, the bombers and shooters moved in.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">That is a whole different chapter that I will
not go into now.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">You can read my novel, </span><i style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Universal Man</i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> for further exploration of
all this.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">As for the biblical analogy: transforming our culture to
hold to the sanctity of human life was the promised land.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Our own nation, the </span><st1:place style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;" w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> and western culture
changed (the adjective of “changed,” not the verb), was the promised land.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">We scouted the land, and the Christian leaders,
most of them rebelled and grumbled, and then said that land wasn’t so great
after all, and worse, that it was held by giants, political, financial, the
places of prestige, and the town criers, the media.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">They all wanted to stone (defame, undermine,
dismiss, ignore) the few faithful ones who said we could occupy the land.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Our status therefore is, we are now wandering in the
wilderness. Look what has happened since them.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Unthinkable terrorism, drug epidemics, the “legalization” of homosexual
marriage, etc.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">And more recently, the
ongoing world-wide corona virus epidemic, the resulting economic suppression,
and even now riots, burning buildings, and looting in cities everywhere.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">As far as I can see, the apparent leaders of the
anti-abortion movement now have no coherent vision of what we should be as a
nation and a culture, let alone how to achieve or reach for that vision.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">There are sporadic, uncoordinated attempts to
tinker around the edges of the law, with varying success. To expect an additional
Trump nominee to change the “balance” of the Supreme so that a reversal of </span><i style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Roe </i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">is possible, is naïve.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">(There always has been who we think is a
reliable vote that suddenly evolves.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Take some of the strange opinions of Chief Justice Roberts, for example.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">The most active front of the anti-abortion efforts now calls
itself the Abortion Abolition Movement.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">I am very familiar with its ideas and people who identify themselves
this way.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Their idea, as best I
understand it, is that we must call for a complete ban on abortion.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">I have heard some of them express that
mother’s who abort should be charged criminally for murder.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">There seems to be an underlying belief that
what we called the “pro-life” movement is evil and actually has prolonged the
existence of legal abortion.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Another
aspect is the belief that only through preaching the gospel will individuals
and our society will change.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Few
“abolitionists” seem to understand rescue.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">They don’t have a developed picture of what our society would actually
look like having abolished abortion, or what it would take practically and
policy-wise to reach this goal. Without going into a detailed critique, I will
say that they are partly right and party wrong about all of this.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">The hardest part for me personally, is the
attitude that somehow they have something new that’s never been tried before. The
confusion and overly narrow perspective of their viewpoint is part of wandering
in the wilderness.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">As least they are
still active and out there confronting abortion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">We all are, in fact, wandering lost in the wilderness,
myself included.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">All of us are
compromised to one degree or another.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">None of us possesses a full comprehension of the reality of abortion
that includes the full spectrum of responses.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">All of us have devised spiritual, emotional, and psychological barriers
to allow us to live more or less normal lives that accommodate the killing and
allow it to continue without being any more than mildly troubled. This is the
result of long term exposure and relative inaction, at least in proportion to
the true urgency of the immediate life and death situation.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">I myself suffer from compassion burnout.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">I’ve reached a point where, on an emotional
level, I just don’t care anymore.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Many, in fact most, “pro-life” antiabortion people
participate occasionally in an ineffective or partly effective campaign or
project related to abortion.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Or they
vote and think that fulfills their duty. Some pro-life preachers will deliver a
sermon on the subject once a year.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Some
pro-life preachers will not preach a whole sermon, but will mention the subject
in passing once or twice a year.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Some
pro-life churches immerse themselves in and feel called to concentrate their
efforts on other needs, such as hunger or homelessness, while simply effectively
ignoring the slaughter that takes place a few miles from where they meet.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Many pro-life people and churches were once
active and now are not.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">This is all part
of wandering lost in the wilderness.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Roe v. Wade</i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">
dropped on us coming on to 47 years ago.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">The abortion of children in the womb was “legalized” six years before
that in </span><st1:state style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">.
By comparison, 40 years lost and wandering in a wilderness doesn’t seem so
long.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">My point is, if the Biblical story
applies here at all, it will only be a completely new generation that enters
the promised land where human life is held important and valuable at every
stage.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">I don’t think I will ever see it.
We seem to be headed in the opposite direction.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">In fact our wilderness may be much, much longer than 40 years.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Maybe another, related Bible story
applies.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">The Israelites were captive in </span><st1:place style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;" w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">
for some 400 years.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">So, what do we do?</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">The
short answer is, I don’t know.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">I also
don’t know if we can draw an exact parallel between the Numbers narrative and
our present circumstances, especially the epilogue.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">When those men who are responsible for
spreading a bad report about the promised land were struck down and died of a
plague, all the surviving Israelites “mourned bitterly”, admitted they had
sinned and attempted to enter the promised land.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">But Moses said this now was disobeying the
Lord’s command, and the inhabitants of the land attacked and beat them
down.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">In other words, it was too late to
avoid the 40 years wandering in the wilderness.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">A longer answer, then, is that we must endure whatever comes
and be faithful when and to what we can in the areas of being present where
children are being killed, of seeking to change the law and educating and
reasoning with our neighbors, in creating powerful artistic expressions, and in serving women and men who face
difficulties with pregnancy and raising children.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">We also must admit that we are wandering and
not pretend that our schemes and strategies will make much of a difference on
the culture, or that they will significantly change the death count. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">My prediction for the future is that true
Christians will suffer persecution and be forced to endure hardships, and this
is part of the purification process.*</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">How long or short this term of wandering will be, I have no idea.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Whatever happens in this coming election and
afterwards, the results will be alarming.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><b>-Meredith Eugene Hunt</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">*While I can’t say I know exactly what to do as an
individual, I have some ideas of what could and should happen.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">I didn’t want this commentary to be about my
novel, but I did put these ideas in its story. Since nobody is really reading
it, it doesn’t matter if I give spoilers.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">The main title,<span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></span><i style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AMeredith+Eugene+Hunt&s=relevancerank&text=Meredith+Eugene+Hunt&ref"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Universal Man</b></span></a></i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">,
is a statement that I wrote the main character, who, though flawed as any human
being is, represents the Church.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">He
wanders for a time in the wilderness of the </span><st1:place style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;" w:st="on">North Cascade
Mountains</st1:place><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> as he hides from the government in power that is hunting
for him.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">The novel depicts these ideas
better than they can be explained, because they are an example (admittedly
fictional) of someone applying them in life, rather than a bare treatise. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">This present essay, the novel, my short
stories, and numerous articles written over the years are about all I have to
say.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Sure, I could continue to offer rational,
creative critiques of both current and past pro-life projects and pro-abortion
rhetoric, but at this point in history, it is only so much spinning of words.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Obviously, this photo is not for everyone to see, but it represents a sample of the kind of opposition we face just almost every Saturday at Planned Parenthood.</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">This person is standing on PP property, imposing himself between Edie and women going inside for abortion.</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">He dances around to try to distract and confuse Edie who is gently speaking on our amplifier.</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">We also have to be wary of police who have written tickets to some of the new people who aren’t as careful as we are with their use of sound amplification.</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">This photo was made on 1/11/20.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On a Saturday in June, Laura was near the intersections of
McDowell and Choctaw in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Asheville</st1:place></st1:city>
when she found several wild ducklings that had fallen down through a sewer
grate along the curb of McDowell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
were deep in the hole and couldn’t possibly get out on their own. The mother
duck was nearby, quacking, and aggressively hissing at anyone who came
near.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The grate was too heavy for Laura
to lift, and besides she was busy with something else important, so she “couldn’t
leave her post” she said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She called 911
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Police and firemen promptly responded and managed traffic on
the busy four lane road while they rescued the ducklings, six of them. The
mother duck went a short distance away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One of the ducklings was so deep in the hole, they couldn’t reach it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, the firemen had to leave it behind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the fire truck left, the mother duck
returned, gathered her family and led them across the road toward the creek
westward as cars and trucks stopped to let them safely pass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This incident is so much like the illustrated children’s
book <b><i><st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Make Way</st1:address></st1:street>
for Ducklings</i></b> by Robert McCloskey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is a book, first published in 1941, that I remember from my childhood and we
read it to our children and now read it to our grandchildren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a recipient of the Caldecott
Award.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story has a mother duck and
ducklings parading all over town and people stopping to watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It even has a policeman named Michael holding
up traffic so the ducks can cross the road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The rescue of the ducklings in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Asheville</st1:place></st1:city> is a cute and charming story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is impressive that police officers and
firemen would value the lives of ducks enough to ride to the scene in their
expensive equipment and use their training and authority to save them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this story is not really charming and
heartwarming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is dark and depressing
by contrast, because at the corner of McDowell and Choctaw, a block away from
the duck rescue, is a place called Planned Parenthood, where small, dependent
human children are killed by a “doctor” hired by the children’s mothers and
fathers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if we called 911 for
police and firemen to rescue them, they might come, but refuse to intervene, and
we’d be arrested. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they did intervene,
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As for Laura, she was present at Planned Parenthood to try
to persuade parents not to kill their children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For the most part, the parents ignore her and the other anti-abortion
people at the site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, the
anti-abortion/pro-life people are not usually successful at saving children,
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The </span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Mountain Xpress </span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">published a letter to the editor on June 5, 2019 that they headlined. “Abortion Protestors Should Go Home,”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>referring to us who go to Planned Parenthood on Saturday mornings. The letter writer, Mark Wonnacott made several claims. 1.We pro-lifers believe that abortion is murder. 2.We mostly only go out on warm, sunny days and go home when it starts drizzling. 3.We are very careful to stay within the confines of the law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4.We obstruct the bus stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He bases his claims on observations made from his vehicle at the traffic stop light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His conclusion is that we are either “moral cowards of the highest order”, or that we “use an imagined sense of moral superiority, an artfully constructed victim narrative and a position of incredibly social power to bully women… or both.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess the victim narrative would be about pre-natal children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, he recommends that we should “Stop it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pay your taxes. Hug your children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trust women.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The letter generated over 104 comments so far and 3.3k reads, many of the comments from me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At some point the original letter writer joined the discussion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s trying to make the argument that unless I protest 24 hours a day, I don’t allow pregnant women the same choices I allow myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes some contortions to reach that conclusion, and besides, his whole argument is an </span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-style: italic;">ad hominem </span></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that says nothing about abortion and the life of a human being in the womb.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This happened at the Asheville Planned Parenthood a few weeks ago. Someone called the police later in the morning, probably on us. The police showed up in numbers, detained some of us, did background checks, and then gave us a talk about "good behavior." I had originally posted this video on our YouTube channel, but then YT took the video down, citing their privacy policy. I have this man's name and other identifying information, and in the future if he does anything else like this to us, I will press charges for communicating a threat.</span><br />
<br />M.H............................http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700448714612192198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338419527312319426.post-19155930262823807842018-01-17T10:14:00.000-05:002018-01-17T10:21:17.877-05:00Burning Roe v. Wade<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note: I purchased this volume to burn on a bonfire for the upcoming 45th anniversary of<i> Roe v. Wade</i>. When I searched through the pages to find where the dissenting opinion of Justice Bryon White was, so I could remove it before burning the book, I <b>COULD NOT FIND IT.</b> This book says it contains the complete text, but it <b><i>does not</i></b>. I wrote a review of the volume for Amazon, but my review was rejected without them offering any specific reasons. I'm not going to spend a lot of time guessing what their problem was, but likely it is that I was blunt about abortion. Below is my final review, a combination of what I sent originally and some changes and additions for the one I presently have on submission. As of this moment, it hasn't been approved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The Review</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First of all, </span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Roe v. Wade</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> is one of the most despicable
documents in history. It and slavish
submission to it are responsible philosophically for the deaths of millions of
human beings since 1973. That itself is
enough to earn this little volume a zero. Less than zero. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But if a person simply hopes to be objective and neutral,
and approach the subject of abortion with an open mind and learn about <i>Roe v.
Wade</i> by reading the original, full text, this volume fails. Why? Because
it blatantly omits three additional dissenting and concurring opinions, ones
that might give insight to the true meaning of Roe. In particular, it does not include the
scathing dissenting opinion of Justice Bryon White, joined by Justice William Rhenquist,
who later became Chief Justice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you want to be educated about <i>Roe</i>, don’t buy this
book. In fact, there are no easily
available sources of White’s opinion.
You will find it referenced on anti-abortion websites, but those are too
easily dismissed. The copy of <i>Roe</i> I have
is from a bound law book in the law library at our county courthouse. Because abortion is about blood and death,
the truth about <i>Roe v. Wade</i> is hidden. If you want to find the complete text,
you will have to dig.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">White wrote: “I find nothing in the language or history of
the Constitution to support the Court’s judgment. The Court simply fashions and
announces a new constitutional right for pregnant mothers and, with scarcely
any reason or authority for its action, invests that right with sufficient
substance to override most existing state abortion statutes. The upshot is that the people and the
legislatures of 50 States are constitutionally disentitled to weigh the
relative importance of the continued existence and development of the fetus, on
one hand, against a spectrum of possible impacts on the mother on the other
hand. As an exercise of raw judicial
power, the Court perhaps has authority to what it does today: but in my view
its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of
judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Justice White wrote those words above and much more. His
dissent is one of the best reviews of <i>Roe v. Wade</i>. But don’t take my word for it. Find the
complete text somewhere. Unfortunately it’s not in this volume.</span></div>
M.H............................http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700448714612192198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338419527312319426.post-25103778596812452742017-11-08T08:36:00.001-05:002017-11-08T08:58:30.913-05:00"Random Act of Kindness of Some Basic Life Essentials"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last Friday during the long morning, I took a “bathroom
break”. A short block away from Planned
Parenthood is some vacant, overgrown property that affords adequate
privacy. It’s the sort of place where
homeless people sometimes pass by.
Hanging on a gate was a nice, green, nylon bag, obviously heavy with
goods. Pinned to the top of the bag was
a note on white paper. The note read,
“Random act of kindness and useful necessities.
Take or share, if needed.” My
first thought was to take it—I’m an opportunist and our family economics often
require us to take advantage of small gains, but then I realized how stupid
this was. I didn’t need what was in the
bag and someone else might. I walked
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">what we prolifers are also attempting
in an out-of-the-way and inconvenient place—offering random acts of kindness
and useful necessities to try to save the lives of children. The difference is when I returned later with </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a camera to take a photo of the bag, it was gone, but few people welcome the
random acts we offer.</span></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks so much for your support. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is needed. </span></i></b><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We
can’t give up.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">UPDATE: That was a week ago. Last weekend I found another green bag in a new location, and this time I was able to get pictures. I had mis-remembered the words of the note. The headline of the blog post contains the right words. This time I looked inside the bag to see if I might learn who is doing this project. There was no identifying information. The bag contained a stocking hat, gloves, a scarf, some soap, wipes, a hand warmer, a few snacks, a couple other things, and a bottle of water. I left the bag as I found it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The last photo here is not of Planned Parenthood, but a little place called Biscuit Head along Biltmore Avenue that we see every time we leave PP. There's <b><i>always</i></b> a long line. It seems so strange in this out-of-the-way place. People standing in line in a parking lot. I spoke with a couple from Missouri that was eating biscuits from a box off the back of their car. They had driven all the way from western Kentucky to visit Asheville for the weekend. They said it was faster ordering food here by take out. The wait was an hour, they said. I told them where they could go for a nice nearby hike to some cliffs along the Blue Ridge Parkway. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the other side of this building is an office for <b><a href="http://tranzmission.org/index.html" target="_blank">TranzMission</a></b>. And we wonder why things seem to be changing so fast. They have money. There's an organization. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">[Note: I just moved this article from <a href="http://www.chaoticterrinpress.blogspot.com/">www.chaoticterrinpress.blogspot.com</a> this morning. The original posting was on 7/10/17.]</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This below is what I posted on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=6814413"><b>Patreon</b></a> yesterday.
The idea is to invite a friendly audience of vehicular passersby to
support us and my writing.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> You may have seen me
“protesting” in front of Planned Parenthood’s abortion site on <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">McDowell Street</st1:address></st1:street> in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Asheville</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">North
Carolina</st1:state></st1:place>. Maybe you gave a friendly honk and a thumbs
up. (Thanks!) Or maybe you flipped us the bird and shouted a degrading
insult or obscenity. Or maybe you saw an advertisement somewhere for <a href="http://www.chaoticterrain.com/"><b>Chaotic Terrain Press</b></a>. Whoever
you are and however you got here, Welcome!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> My friends call me Mick and
everyone else knows me as Meredith Eugene Hunt.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The word “protest” doesn’t
really capture what we are trying to do out there. Our signs that say “Let Your
Baby Live, We Will Help” express the essence of our intention. Because we are
in a public place, there is an element of protest, but that’s not at the heart
of what we do. Our first audience is people who come for abortion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In nearly 30 years of anti-abortion work
I’ve gone through a number of stages, including a decade of informally debating
the subject of abortion on university campuses all over the southeast U.S. and elsewhere. At some point I got tired of debate. I won’t go
into the why of it right now, except to say that debate has its limits because
people erect barriers to reason. Everyone does. Logic breaks down into determined
fallacy or else it’s built on weak, immutable presuppositions. Then there’s
simply raw emotion. This is part of why I started writing stories in year 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I’ve published a three-part
novel titled <b><i>Universal Man</i></b> <b><i>(Graceful Runner</i></b>, <b><i>The
Chinook Assembly</i></b> and <b><i>Then, a Soldier</i></b>) and also
I’ve published 26 short stories in a collection titled <b><i>When Earth
Whispers & Other Mostly Speculative Tales</i></b>. I’ve written on my <a href="https://chaoticterrainpress.blogspot.com/"><b>Chaotic Terrain Press blog</b></a> what
these stories and the novel are about. Abortion is a factor in several of them.
The connection may seem to be obscure, but only when viewed on the surface.
Look deeper. Think of the implications of, for example, physics running
backward for your husband or wife and then read “Ships Passing in the Night:
Romance and Marriage Between Lovers from Anti-synchronous Worlds” that I wrote
for the Mad Scientist Journal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> You can read all 26 stories
totally for free on my blog. Patreon is a way you can support my writing work.
Or you can buy the books. And I need reviews: Good, bad, and even ugly. If the
second and third option, expect a rebuttal, maybe. Or another story. Or
silence. (Or a revision.) If you appreciate one of the short stories, try a
long story—the novel. You can buy an electronic version cheap to read on your
computer. I’ve taken almost all the photographs in the novel and those that
accompany the short stories. The e-versions have the pictures in color.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> We endure a lot of verbal
abuse on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood. It’s a fish bowl out
there. We have a narrow sidewalk, dangerous, noisy traffic, and hostility on
all sides. But, we have passersby who are friends, too. Once in a while someone
will stop and give us a little cash money, and when that happened yesterday
(7/7/2017), I thought maybe others would support us if it were easier and
convenient. Hence, here we are on Patreon. The stories help you get to know me
and us better. They are what I have to say. I hope they’re fun. They might lead
you to think in a new way. They might even, perhaps, lead you to join us to a
degree you haven’t before now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I’ve put together a plan for
monthly Patreon patrons to receive various free books, and I’ll also post some
special things here, like working chapters of a novel in progress. Or sketches
from unfinished short stories. Or my frog fishing story from junior high.
(About shipping books internationally, I can only do this when Amazon permits.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Patreon suggests accompanying
this text with a video introduction. I have posted such a two minute video<b> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS3sy7pAeNc">HERE</a></b>, but it’s not
what you might expect. Like everyone else, I want to think about what’s
beautiful or just entertaining. Maybe after 30 years of thinking about death,
blood, and baby body parts, I’m more escapist than most people. Check out my
other videos on my YouTube channel,<b> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOsdIm6jfyfXres9Pr7rPGw">UniversalDirt</a></b>,
especially the monarch butterfly ones. There’s a connection to abortion there,
too. But I’ll leave you to work it out for yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Happy traveling!*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (P.S. If you feel like
arguing with me, first read the two pro-life apologetics books by Francis J.
Beckwith, then perhaps we’ll talk. If you’re thinking of attacking me, then
read a couple stories first. Try “Attack of the Gravid Amazons.” It’s thought
provoking. Remember, anyone can read the short stories for free at the <a href="https://chaoticterrainpress.blogspot.com/"><b>Chaotic Terrain Press blog</b></a>.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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*A reference to my ascending "reward" tiers Friendly Passerby,
Kindred Spirit, Fellow Traveler, Trail Runner, Through Hiker, Wilderness
Trekker, and Himalayan Climber.</span><br />
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M.H............................http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700448714612192198noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338419527312319426.post-59965711141387198142017-06-16T21:43:00.000-04:002017-06-16T22:11:37.637-04:00Perspective<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've been thinking about the hatred and rage we experience when we are on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood. Sure, lots of people give friendly honks and thumbs-up. I appreciate those, even if the support is weak. (It would mean more if people actually joined us.) </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The opposition on the other hand is emotionally fierce, and it sticks with you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The other evening Edie and I watched the Martin Scorsese film “Silence”, based on the novel by Shusaku Endo.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I read the book years ago after seeing it on Marvin Olasky’s (editor of World News Group) essential reading list.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The story is about the horrific persecution of Christians in 15</span><sup style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Century Japan.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What we go through in front of Planned Parenthood is laughable compared to what Christians endured then, and in other times and places around the world.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Still, we have time on the sidewalk to reflect on the daily bellowed “f___ yous” and up-thrusted middle fingers from passersby.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It’s not hard to interpret these as intended to be meant literally.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ugly, vile, violent reference to what our Creator intended for human procreation is entirely consistent with the ugly, vile, violent response to the unwanted result of human procreation.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You almost view those people who do this to us as being of the same spirit of the inquisitors in medieval Japan.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I believe that if unrestrained by the law and encouraged, some of those bird flippers and shouters would attack us physically.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You see that sort of thing with the present so-called Antifa, or antifascist movement, who themselves use fascist tactics.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I don’t want to leave the impression that we are at great risk out there.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is tense, but so far actual threats are almost non-existent.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We are able to focus on our purpose, which is reaching out to abortion bound people.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">*The photograph has been cleaned up from the original, to remove specks. And cropped a little.To see the original and the documentation, go to the </span><a href="https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa8305" target="_blank">US Holocaust Memorial Museum</a><span style="color: #eeeeee;">. I considered using this photo in my novel, but getting permission to use a high resolution image was burdensome. The photo is in the public domain.</span></span></span></div>
M.H............................http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700448714612192198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338419527312319426.post-25068408884631683862017-02-21T12:37:00.000-05:002017-02-21T12:41:22.629-05:00Planned Parenthood Protest, 2-11-17<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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M.H............................http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700448714612192198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338419527312319426.post-41443441973492499142017-02-01T16:33:00.000-05:002017-02-01T16:40:03.902-05:00Video: "Making the BEST Anti-Abortion, Pro-Life Signs Workshop"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">This video will show you how to make the BEST pro-life, anti-abortion signs. Includes a materials and tools list, and it shows an example of the WORST pro-life sign. </span><span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Watch</span><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><span style="color: orange;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YnsJnbmqAY&t=8s" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a></span></span><span style="color: #cccccc;">,</span></span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> and leave a comment.</span></span>M.H............................http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700448714612192198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338419527312319426.post-31073736029432155262017-01-23T10:57:00.002-05:002017-01-23T10:58:29.132-05:00Video: "Women's March on Asheville"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">This is a video of the so-called "Women's March on Asheville" from our location at Spruce and College, and from our point of view.</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz52UDuBnxo&t=103s" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;"> Part One.</span></a>M.H............................http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700448714612192198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338419527312319426.post-92024012510724464112017-01-22T09:25:00.000-05:002017-01-22T09:26:12.498-05:00GRACEFUL RUNNER Available TODAY!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The link to the Amazon page is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Graceful-Runner-Universal-Man-1/dp/0984511164/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1485094052&sr=1-1&keywords=Meredith+Eugene+Hunt" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">HERE</span></a>.</span>M.H............................http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700448714612192198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338419527312319426.post-45421603477111106492017-01-17T22:03:00.001-05:002017-01-24T11:06:31.963-05:00A Novel for Roe v. Wade<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Part one of my contemplative thriller, <i><b>Universal Man</b></i> will be released in a second edition for the upcoming anniversary of the abominable <i>Roe v. Wade</i>. It will be available on Amazon.com on Sunday, January 22. <b><i>Graceful Runner</i></b> features a preface and a handful of original black & white location photographs. The story takes place in the Pacific Northwest. Part two, <b><i>The Chinook Assembly</i></b> will be available on March 1, 2017 for Lent, and part three, <b><i>Then a Soldier</i></b> will be available for next Easter.</span><br />
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M.H............................http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700448714612192198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338419527312319426.post-67368611905819046582016-12-24T08:03:00.000-05:002016-12-24T08:10:48.128-05:00Planned Parenthood Spending Your Tax Dollars on Flavored Condoms?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here we have a UPS driver delivering cartons from Trustex to Planned Parenthood in Asheville. I looked the name up and found that <a href="https://www.undercovercondoms.com/Condoms/Brands/Trustex/17/Trustex-Brand-Condoms.html" target="_blank">Trustex</a>, according to one online merchant, </span>is the "world's leading flavored condom brand.
Available in seven individual flavors, or try a variety pack to sample them
all!" Photo taken 12/23/16.</span>M.H............................http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700448714612192198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338419527312319426.post-25460423504826277632016-11-21T10:27:00.000-05:002016-11-21T10:29:12.520-05:00Berea College Students Stand for Life<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimXFyHw7h8DjvayMmlJJw55ZU2KUqhn3Vb8fxblk084JNiAx9nZdXHQI10ilE81ckH99kNsWKxtQXFtmhyphenhyphenKF_uW7_qLjUfpHf2JvCnStMPsHAw4pLl9exhIkJORCq8Qe-dRDWhaDOWKnaW/s1600/Berea+College+Students+Stand+for+Life.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimXFyHw7h8DjvayMmlJJw55ZU2KUqhn3Vb8fxblk084JNiAx9nZdXHQI10ilE81ckH99kNsWKxtQXFtmhyphenhyphenKF_uW7_qLjUfpHf2JvCnStMPsHAw4pLl9exhIkJORCq8Qe-dRDWhaDOWKnaW/s400/Berea+College+Students+Stand+for+Life.gif" width="400" /></a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Watch a short video made during the Q&A at the November 10, 2016 Berea College convocation that featured "Christian" abortionist Willie Parker. The video shows statements made by two pro-life students, one statement encouraging attendants to, like the original Bereans in the Bible, search the scriptures for the truth about abortion. The other speaker reads a statement affirming a commitment to help any pregnant woman choose life. She then asks everyone who agrees with the statement to stand.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The video may be found </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKUGna4ffQI" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">HERE</a><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">.</span>M.H............................http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700448714612192198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338419527312319426.post-12252996613228236092016-11-14T12:16:00.005-05:002016-11-14T12:27:03.193-05:00The Swastika of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">This is a detail of the old logo of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice in Berea College blue. Willie Parker is a member of the board of this evil organization-the RCRC. Watch an HD video showing the old and current logos</span><span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: orange;"> <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0P1JnwNYqM" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a></span></span><span style="color: #cccccc;">.</span></span></span>M.H............................http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700448714612192198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338419527312319426.post-67644562339595258442016-11-13T19:08:00.000-05:002016-11-13T19:29:15.421-05:00Berea College in Kentucky Promotes Abortionist Willie Parker, The "Good Samaritan."<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">This above is a screen shot of a video of a slide show that promotes abortionist Willie Parker and his convocation of November 10, 2016. The short video and a pan of the Berea College library, made two days AFTER the event, may be seen </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adj6C9ZrCQ4" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">. Below is a screenshot of an online announcement.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">November 1, 2016</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Dr. Lyle D. Roelofs,
President, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Berea</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Dear Dr. Roelofs,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">I had written a letter to you in
response to your article in the Berea College Magazine (Volume 86, Number 3)
where you referenced Francis A. Schaeffer’s book, <u>How Should We Then Live?</u>
(HSWTL), but I accidentally deleted the letter and didn’t have the heart to
write it again. I have occasion again to write to you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">When I was a student at <st1:city w:st="on">Berea</st1:city>, I once traveled to <st1:placename w:st="on">Covenant</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> with a <st1:place w:st="on">Berea</st1:place> professor and my future wife Edie
Weatherford to hear Francis Schaeffer speak. The professor was a personal
acquaintance of Dr. Schaeffer through her father’s work. I had by then read and
studied Schaeffer’s work, not in any academic program, but out of personal
interest. Edie and one of her sisters later visited L’abri in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Switzerland</st1:country-region> after a Berea College Country Dancer
tour in <st1:country-region w:st="on">England</st1:country-region>.
I am very concerned that your article misappropriated Schaeffer, first in that your
article had little relationship to the content of his book, and second, by
linking its title to a certain kind of tolerance of sexual disorientation. No
doubt he would be an advocate of radical love, but never at the expense of
biblical truth, which is that sexuality belongs exclusively between a man and
woman in a lifelong commitment. The <st1:city w:st="on">Berea</st1:city>
magazine article that followed yours stood in sharp contrast with biblical
truth.* Sexuality, as such, however, isn’t the subject I wish to discuss here.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">You said that Schaeffer wrote HSWTL
(subtitled, The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture) near the end
of his life. Perhaps you are unaware that Schaeffer wrote two important works
after this book. They are <u>Whatever Happened to the Human Race?</u> and <u>A
Christian Manifesto</u>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"> “Whatever Happened” is about abortion, euthanasia
and infanticide. What I chiefly remember about the book is that it contains one
of the strongest apologetic arguments against abortion, one I incorporated into
a science-fiction story published this fall in the <i>Mad Scientist Journal</i>. The story is “Ships Passing in the Night:
Romance and Marriage between Lovers from Anti-synchronous Worlds” in which a
man sees his child grow younger and smaller until she is un-born, and then she
un-develops in her mother’s womb until fertilization when she ceases to exist.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">One need not read “Whatever
Happened” to know what Francis Schaeffer thought about human abortion. He
presented the heart of his understanding in the pages of HSWTL where he
discusses the breakdown of morality and the law, in particular within the U.S.
Supreme Court’s <i>Roe v. Wade</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Much of my adult life has been
living the challenge Schaeffer presented in his writing. While at <st1:place w:st="on">Berea</st1:place> I attended an
evening convocation at Phelps Stokes Chapel led by the Rev. John Powell, who
had written the book, <u>Abortion: the Silent Holocaust</u>. Later, I attended
a Sunday evening chapel in Danforth led by a speaker who made a personal appeal
to me to dedicate my life to ending abortion. Those speakers were among the
many influences that led me to the pro-life activism I’ve been doing for the
past 30 years. I majored in Agriculture at <st1:city w:st="on">Berea</st1:city>,
and my goal was to be involved in agricultural development in Third World
nations, particularly in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Bangladesh</st1:country-region>,
which had suffered so much in those years from floods. It’s a long story about
how I came close to fulfilling this goal, and how the diversion toward trying
to protect preborn children was consistent with that goal—serving where the
greatest need is and were the fewest people are involved. So, it is natural for
me to write to you to express my dismay at abortionist and <st1:city w:st="on">Berea</st1:city>
alumnus Willie Parker being a speaker at a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Berea</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:place>
convocation on November 10, which happens to be the Thursday prior to
Homecoming weekend. I’m dismayed even more that this abortionist will present a
case that his Christian faith compels him to abort pre-natal children.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">As an accident of my prolife
activism, I have become a campaigner for free speech. I have been arrested
several times resulting in interesting court cases in both state and federal
court, one case resulting in lasting legal results here in Asheville. I have
helped take the huge, graphic anti-abortion display, the Genocide Awareness
Project (GAP) to some 50 colleges and universities in the Southeast and
elsewhere, including <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>,
EKU, and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Transylvania</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>. I was an organizer
when we held signs showing images of aborted children along <st1:street w:st="on">Chestnut Street</st1:street> where it passed though
the <st1:city w:st="on">Berea</st1:city>
campus in November, 2013. In considering all aspects of free speech, I
understand its limits, both legal and moral. It’s immoral to advocate for
murder, for example, and it will be illegal in many cases. In <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region> it’s
illegal to deny the Holocaust. I believe it is immoral and should be illegal to
advocate for killing children in the womb and for its legality. This is precisely
the atrocious message of Willie Parker, and not only his message, but what he
does. He is, in short, a serial murderer, and Berea College has no business
giving him the credibility of a platform, just as it would surely deny a
platform to an outspoken racist or anti-Semite, let alone a person who
advocated and boasted of holding slaves or of killing Jewish people, however euphemistic
his language might be, however it might be rationalized. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">I hope you will cancel the
appearance of Willie Parker at your convocation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Some years ago, <st1:placename w:st="on">Warren</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Wilson</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">College</st1:placename>, as part of its Service
Learning Program, allowed students to work as escorts at the Femcare abortion
site in <st1:place w:st="on">Asheville</st1:place>.
Willis, then retired from <st1:city w:st="on">Berea</st1:city>,
was a trustee of Warren Wilson. I acquired the names and addresses of all the trustees
from an alumnus and sent each of them selections from a transcript of the on-campus
training program for abortion escorts. I had asked someone to record that
program, and it was fairly disturbing—especially the foul language and silly
outlook. Shortly afterwards, the college discontinued its relationship with the
abortion business. I remember giving Willis a copy of my cover letter and the
transcript. We never talked about it because, sadly, he passed away just a week
or so after that time. The Femcare place eventually was forced to close because
of health and safety violations, and it opened up again briefly, but closed
down permanently shortly afterwards. We, the group I work with, Life Advocates,
were involved many years in protesting there and sidewalk counseling, in which
we offer help to women at the last moment.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Willie Parker would be as
potentially controversial with <st1:city w:st="on">Berea</st1:city> trustees
and alumni as the <st1:city w:st="on">Asheville</st1:city> abortion place was
at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Warren</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Wilson</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">College</st1:placename></st1:place>.
I don’t speak for the extended Weatherford family, but I know that the ones I
have communicated with so far are upset at you having him scheduled. I’m
certain that when Willis was president at <st1:place w:st="on">Berea</st1:place>
he never would have allowed an abortionist to speak at a convocation. Edie
tells me that Willis purchased the HSWTL film series for <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Berea</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
I believe that his name attached to <st1:placename w:st="on">Berea</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype>’s “<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Christian</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Center</st1:placename></st1:place>”
stands as a testimony against what you’re doing with this convocation speaker.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">There are some issues so big and
divisive, that neutrality is impossible. Abortion is one of them. At the very
least, attempted neutrality favors the <i>status
quo</i>, which is to hold abortion to be a fundamental right and legal in most
circumstances. My experience is with the public university, and as publically
supported institutions they’re subject to the First Amendment and a battery of
Supreme Court cases. That is how we gain access to the university campuses with
GAP. Private colleges and universities aren’t bound by the First Amendment, and
therefore can favor one position over another as an institution. What views
they allow to be asserted on campus reflect the values of the institution. A
private college or university may allow viewpoints it fundamentally disagrees
with to be given expression in the spirit of fairness, or for educational
purposes, or it may deny those viewpoints access to the campus without a threat
of legal penalty, though either way, financial repercussion is another matter. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">With GAP we show horrific images of
aborted children. Having only civil, polite discussions and debates about the
“issue” doesn’t do justice to the reality. Below is the narration from the
conclusion to the PBS Frontline historical documentary, “Memory of the Camps”
that shows graphic moving images of victims of the Holocaust.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">The dead have been
buried. It remains for us to care for these, the living. It remains for us to
hope that Germans may help mend what they have broken, and cleanse what they
have befouled. Thousands of German people were made to see for themselves, to
bury the dead, to file past the victims. This was the end of the journey they
had so confidently begun in 1933. Twelve years? No, in terms of barbarity and
brutality they had traveled backwards for 12,000 years. Unless the world learns
the lesson these pictures teach, night will fall. But, by God's grace, we who
live will learn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">The truth about abortion makes it
clear that inviting and allowing the abortionist Willie Parker to present
himself as a Christian who is acting in love when he aborts pre-natal children
stands against everything good <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Berea</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:place> has represented
in the past, and should represent in the future. It does, however, make a statement about what
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Berea</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:place> stands for at present, and that
is <i>not</i> good.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Parker is helping women kill their children,
and any person who participates in the murder of an innocent person is bound to
suffer psychological and spiritual damage. He hurts women. What does the
subtitle of his speech, “New Wine in Old Wineskins” even mean? As I recall, according
to the metaphor of Jesus, new wine bursts old wineskins. Does Parker represent new wine bursting the “old”
wineskins of the Old and New Testaments, the character of Christ, and centuries
of Christian ethics and tradition? (In HSWTL Schaeffer cites the Council of
Ancyra, a.d. 314, and the Synod of Elvira, a.d 305-306). I’m familiar with the
many distorted interpretations of the Bible that attempt to legitimize abortion
as being something other than the deliberate killing of an innocent person made
in the image of God.) Parker is not the Good Samaritan, as he seems to think. Rather,
he’s the robber who left someone naked and bleeding in a ditch—the mother—and
someone dead—her baby.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Again I would refer back to your
article in the <st1:place w:st="on">Berea</st1:place>
magazine. You mentioned <st1:place w:st="on">Berea</st1:place>’s
seventh great commitment, which includes the aspect of having “concern for the
welfare of others.” Abortion is the anti-thesis of concern for the welfare of
others, both mother and baby, fathers and grandparents, siblings and cousins. Berea
College should cancel Parker’s appearance, but it should also go much further
by taking an active, even aggressive role in helping women in troubled pregnancies,
so they will not consider abortion as a viable option, and in helping save
pre-natal children, in part though the education of your students about the
true nature of abortion. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Meredith “Mick” Eugene Hunt, ‘79</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">PO Box 19205</st1:street>,
<st1:city w:st="on">Asheville</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NC</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">28815</st1:postalcode></st1:address>
828-575-7300</span></div>
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link to my blog post about our past project at <st1:place w:st="on">Berea</st1:place>: </span></div>
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<a href="http://lifeadvocates.blogspot.com/2013/11/god-made-all-peoples.html"><span style="color: orange;">http://lifeadvocates.blogspot.com/2013/11/god-made-all-peoples.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Please watch the introductory video at </span><a href="http://www.abortionno.org/"><span style="color: orange;">http://www.abortionno.org/</span></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">I see that Parker is speaking on November 11, at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Draper</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Building</st1:placetype></st1:place>,
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">*In HSWTL Schaeffer mentions Alfred Charles Kinsey’s books:
“[T]heir real impact was the underlying conception that sexual right and wrong
depend only on what most people are doing sexually at a given moment in
history.” The situation today differs in that sexual right is what <i>any</i> people are doing, provided there is
consent between participants.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>cc:</b> Loretta
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This woman (left) has stolen a pro-life sign
that was along the sidewalk in front of the Asheville Planned Parenthood on
Saturday, May 21. The abortion escort apparently persuaded her to not keep it
because the woman tossed it into the driveway. When she left by the back
entrance, she stopped and tried to steal a sign from one of the people there. We
have a photo of </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">her face, which I will post.</span><br />
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M.H............................http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700448714612192198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4338419527312319426.post-37172908262503122632016-03-04T20:37:00.001-05:002016-03-05T07:31:04.429-05:00VIDEO: Pro-Abortion Woman Flings Wooden-Framed "Let Your Baby Live! We Will Help" sign into the Highway<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">After she tosses the sign, I tell her I'm calling the police. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">"That's fine," she says, twice.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The sign hasn't quite hit the roadway yet. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If she hadn’t seen me running toward her, she would have put the sign in her car and driven away. I have the original video in High Definition, 30 frames/second.</span></div>
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