I did a count on the interstates in Florida while traveling to a job, and on the stretches I counted (about 75 miles of I 75 and a couple of hundred miles of I10), about 1 out of 10 of the signs were the same - anti-abortion and deceptive.  I did this because when we left, it seemed that along one stretch of highway there were more anti-abortion signs than anything else.

There was even one spot where there were two signs - the one on top was the same one against abortion (Your Baby's heart is beating at 18 days or something like that) and right below it a sign saying "America - love it or LEAVE!".

I just wonder how self-justified these people feel, knowing that they're guilt-tripping and playing with the emotions of women.

That in my book is a form of religious persecution towards women who had an abortion and that persecution could be extended to all women in my worldview.  The one sign about leaving America... that's prejudicial towards anyone who rejects the dominionist lies.  I was deeply offended by it.

Then there is their "War on Christmas" BS, which could be considered a form of persecution of non-Christians (and tolerant/understanding Christians too).  They're trying to take the right of people to choose what holiday greeting they use and force their idea of "Christianity" on them.   I know some pagans who are really bothered by that... because they know the history of most of the modern traditions, and how they were co-opted by the churches.  I'm already reading letters to the editor against the so-called "War on Christmas" and I expect to see more - going along with the earlier and earlier dates that Christmas music and decorations show up in the stores (kind of puts the lie to their claims, doesn't it?).

Thinking about it, IMO you could even claim that the pseudo-history that Barton prattles is a form of persecution, especially when he demonizes or speaks lies about different groups.   I don't know what he claims about my own people (Native Americans), but I suspect it's both highly prejudicial and wrong.  He strikes me as being that sort of bigot, and that sort of thing feeds the very real discrimination we encounter.  Rewriting the history of a people to make them look bad (NOT rewriting history to correct the propaganda of the winners) is a form of persecution.

Funny, but I can argue that while he's not experiencing persecution, he is persecuting others.


by ArchaeoBob on Wed Dec 07, 2011 at 11:11:09 AM EST
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