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the right is not consistent on this question of "respect for life"
for example--you, bear:
if you oppose abortion but support the war in iraq, you do not care about life--you care about the republican party platform.
if you oppose abortion and also oppose the redistribution of wealth, then you are stuck on the fact of life but do not care about what kind of life--in which case, your position is simply a joke.
if you oppose abortion but support capital punishment, you want to play god maybe, but you are not motivated by anything like respect for the sanctity of life.
for all the problems i had with the guy, at least john paul 2 was consistent on these matters. american conservatives are not bothered, in the main, by matters like consistency.
but until american conservatives at least take the respect for life seriously enough to be consistent about it, i see no reason not to see in their position anything but opportunism wrapped in the steaming bonbon of sanctimoniousness.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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