National Sanctity of Human Life Day: The Musical
This weekend, President Bush will have the honor of proclaiming his eighth National Sanctity of Human Life Day; his seventh while US troops are actively engaged in killing people. That's a new record for a president. See, he's not a failure at all.
The boilerplate for a George Jr. NSOHD proclamation hasn't changed much through the years. Expect a reference to the Declaration of Independence, an allusion that connects Planned Parenthood to Al-Qaeda (From 2002: "On September 11, we saw clearly that evil exists in this world, and that it does not value life...") and a little humble bragging about the work he's done blurring the nettlesome distinction between church and state. It'll end:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Sunday, January 18, 2009, as National Sanctity of Human Life Day. I call upon all Americans to recognize this day with appropriate ceremonies and to underscore our commitment to respecting and protecting the life and dignity of every human being.
... unless they get in the way.
But what is an appropriate ceremony for National Sanctity of Human Life Day?
The Houston Area Pastor Council is glad you asked. According to their Sanctity of Life Resource Packet, you can put on a play.
And here it is:
PRO-LIFE DRAMA
For Sanctity of Life Sunday
By Al AtkinsAct 1
Mary (dressed in Biblical garb for young virgin): Oh Diana, I am so frightened - I talked to Joseph last night and he is so angry. He keeps laughing about my "stupid angel" story. He doesn't believe a word that I tell him, and I don't know what we're going to do... (weeping softly)
Diana (older "friend", hugging Mary): Mary, Mary, it's OK - I've got an idea. I have a friend who told me that something like this happened to her and her cousin's uncle took care of it.
Mary (looking puzzled and then suspicious): Took care of it? What in the world are you talking about?
Diana: Mary, Joseph is going to have you put way if we don't do something! You've got to listen to me! Remember our friend Elizabeth? Have you ever seen her again? She disappeared! Now here's what we need to do... (they huddle and whisper)
Softly and then louder in the background the song - "Mary, Did you know?", with haunting flute melody on the refrain.
Notes
Did you figure out who "Mary" was?
Catholics revere Mary as the Immaculate, mother of the church, the new Eve, mediator, co-redeemer and Queen of Heaven. Why is this Mary so thick?
What does Mary see in Joseph? He comes off as kind of a tool.
Was Joseph really going to have Mary thrown in the booby hatch? That seems kind of southern gothic, don't you think?
According to Matthew, when Mary told Joseph about the Annunciation, he was "minded to put her away privily." For the last 1500 years or so, biblical scholars have believed that this meant "divorce her quietly." What does Al Atkins know that they don't?
Is this the same Al Atkins from Judas Priest? If not, why not?
Act 2
An off screen voice: "somewhere in America, in the year 2005"Mary: thank you doctor, yes, I'm sure you're right. I'll just lie down for a few minutes to rest while you and the nurses get ready for the "procedure"
Mary has a "visitation" from an angel. Mary is laying and resting, preparing for her abortion, and her visitor shakes her awake.
Visitor (older person, dressed in sleeping robe): Mary, wake up - I've got someone I'd like you to meet.
They walk slowly across the floor and look through a window.
Mary: who is that beautiful little girl?
Visitor: look closely - I'm sure you can figure it out...
Mary: why, that's my niece Alexis; no, no, it's my cousin Charlotte, no, wait a minute, that's...........she's beautiful! She's got wavy dark hair, deep dark eyes, an incredible smile, lovely skin...........(puzzled) - just who is she??
Visitor (after a prolonged pause, softly): she's your daughter, Mary. The one that the doctor is getting ready to kill with this "procedure".
Mary (shrieking): No, No, No, ............ STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!
Notes
Why do people always say, "Come here, you gotta see this?" Why don't they just tell you what it is?
Act 3
Cutaway to party, where two demons are toasting one another:Demon1 (with an evil hearty laugh): Well, Beezie, I've got to hand it to you - you have outdone yourself this time. We thought no one could top your Nazi "disinfection" campaign, and that just on the heels of your brilliant Darwinian "evolution" promotion, which was so outlandishly foolish and patently asinine, yet incredibly successful.
Your "Choice" strategy has the Most Evil One so pleased that he is promoting you again, this time to Lucifer, Jr, second only to him. Those humans never learn, do they??
Notes
If this is a play, why do we "Cutaway" to a party? Why didn't Final Draft catch that?
Why does Word always indent and number things in lists whether I want it to or not?
What kind of job title is "Lucifer Jr?" Does that carry any real weight from a business standpoint? Or is it just to impress clients?
If this is really hell, why aren't they playing "Mary, Did You Know?"
Put these evils in order of evilocity:
Hitler
The Origin of Species
September 11
Choice
"Diana"
According to the Sanctity of Life Resource Packet, 43% of American women will have an abortion by the time they're 45. (That number sounds awfully made-up, and I don't know why that age is significant, but it's not my resource packet.) If you wanted to win these women over, would you start by telling them they were stupid, selfish, weak, demonic, or worse than Nazis?
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Does anyone realize that the president naming National Sanctity of Human Life Day carries about as much weight as naming Groundhog's Day?
I have never participated in any type of activity for Ground Hog day but have for Sanctity of Human Life Day. Would you like to join me to participate in this year's Sanctity of Human Life Sunday this week, Jan. 18?
Perhaps, more should be investigated on the very profitable business of the abortion industry. Making money out of killing the innocent. Save a tree and kill a baby....hm
There's a big difference between soldiers taking a life in battle during a war (some wars are necessary) and an abortionist taking the life of an unborn baby, which a lot of people see as innocent life created at conception.
sorry jep, no difference. taking a life is taking a life. many innocents (including Children) have died at the hands of the soldiers from the "coalition of the willing" in Iraq. Your stance on abortion has no logic to it if you dont accept the basic facts.
What about those fanatical Fundamentalist Christian Terrorist abortion clinic bombers who take the lives of doctors, nurses, and secretaries who all work at abortion clinics? I suppose you believe those deaths are as righteous as those you support in the cause of war??
As the late George Carlin said of religion: "It's bad for ya."
I agree with the author regarding the hypocrisy of some (like the President) who are for wars but against abortion. I personally am against both but in the case of rape, incest or the life of the mother which is all up to the conscious of the mother. I don't understand however, how people in modern times refuse to use birth control or condoms. I think that in some cases since abortion is so readily available some figure if they get pregnant they will just terminate the pregnancy and won't use a condom. This could be one of the reasons that the STD rate is climbing (just heard that yesterday). I mean a person can't abort any STD
Speaking as a person who had an abortion 28 years ago, I wil tell you, no-one uses them instead of birth control. It hurts like hell.
As for your opinion on when it is okay to get an abortion, that's all it is, an opinion. Now keep your damned religious ideology off of my body and out of the laws of this democracy.
Noralou,
Apparently you forgot to vet your boyfriend.
You would not have gotten pregnant without him.
"I don't understand however, how people in modern times refuse to use birth control or condoms. "
Here's a start for you: abstinence pledges.
I heard about the STD rate climbing, too. I think there's been a lot less talk about AIDS in recent years, so people may not be protecting themselves as carefully? I'd like to see if drug and alcohol abuse rates are going up, too, because people have a tendency to be much less careful when under the influence. Finally, with the economy being what it is, people may be having more sex. It's free, after all :). I don't know, but I don't think, for one moment, that abortion has anything to do with it.
Wow, a woman choosing to get an abortion is worse than the millions of murders committed by the Nazis? I'm gonna have to completely reevaluate my immorality scale.
While I'm at it, burning an American flag is still worse than killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians for no reason, right?
Why do you think there wasn't a reason?
Sure there were reasons. All of them were invalid, insane, illegal or all three.
Part 1
“If a man losses reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.”
Dr. Schweitzer
Where’s the reverence for life when so many of us choose to deal with the inevitable frustrations of a way of life that denies the vast majority of us the basic needs of life, with violence against our women and children? I was abused too… yet my children weren’t—though they would beg to differ, no doubt… not all abused persons end up becoming abusers themselves, and yet too many, still, haven’t stopped bullying weaker ones to direct their anger “where it belongs” instead. I wonder what proportion of such bullied people would enthusiastically admit that their life is worth living?
Thou shalt not kill a fetus, future killer, prostitute, porno star, kid molester, pimp…
Where’s the reverence when our male youth has to live with the specter of patriotism, forced to learn to kill strangers and destroy alien ecologies for the benefit of a few who have somehow managed to convince the rest of us that their claim to ownership of most of Gaia—our planet—entitles them to decide for all others how they must live, and what they should do with their resources?
Thou shalt not kill a fetus, future soldier, sailor, marine, flyboy.
"...I don't know why that age [45] is significant, but it's not my resource packet."
Seriously? You can't figure out why they use age 45? This may be news to you but not many 60-year-olds have abortions.
But some 60-year-olds do have abortions. There are plenty of women on the far side of menopause, who haven't menstruated for years, who find themselves pregnant.
I think they're picking age 45 because if a woman is 45, most if not all of her child bearing years have been after Roe v. Wade was passed in 1973. For the people who think National Sanctity of Human Life Day, it's all about demonizing Roe v. Wade. AND environmentalists. Notice how they say "Human" life, not ALL life?
Part 2
Where’s the reverence when some of our youth is actually seduced by promises of better chances than they’ve currently got—clever, hey?--and/or a bigger share of the mythical pie into acting out the role of enforcers of laws none of us was consulted about, dealing mostly with making sure the government /industrie
Thou shalt not kill a fetus, future policeman, guard…
And where’s the reverence when so many people belonging to minority ethnic groups are forced to live in sub-standard conditions in our inner cities, never having a chance to develop their potential genius in such adverse environments, besieged by turf drug wars and under-funded school systems?
Thou shalt not kill a fetus, future maid, teen mother, gang member, drug addict, drug pusher…
Does not all this just as surely demonstrate the willingness of the powers-that-be to destroy the lives of those whose productive years are yet to come? I have a hard time disbelieving that the oligarchy’s opposition to abortion is nothing but their way of insuring that there will always be plenty of fodder for their robber baron machine, and thus am more likely to feel that
Thou shalt abort a fetus when necessary,
And allow the mother to make a better life for herself, according to her own wishes, desires and genius.
As some comedian (I forget her name) said, "The sanctity of life begins with conception and ends with birth."
You just have to stand with your mouth agape, in total awe of the stupidity involved in calling yourself "pro-life" while at the same time ordering the death of tens of thousands of human beings in the name of "democracy
Why generalize? Why not ask each individual huh?
If you ask the Catholic Church, for the most part...eve
You will hear the following.
Virulent pro-lifers, especially those of the Christian variety, tend to make me exhibit extreme emotions of laughter or anger.
Pro-ab ortion folks like to use abo rtions as a form of bi rth control.
Your proof?
Ann Coulter said so!
Anyone who calls Pro-Choice, "Pro-Abortion", is instantly dismissed as a radicial loony. Loonies do not get to set the agenda nor the dialogue anymore. Welcome to the dawn of sanity in America.
The conceit is that there ever was a Joseph that Mary might have talked with.
Or that there was a Mary.
Actually, Jester, I believe the real figure is around 44 million.
Now, if you want to know the real agenda?
Maybe just maybe it's to save human lives and souls too?
Perhaps you are looking too hard for non existent shadows?
In any event, why would you think you know my heart or anyone elses?
Interesting information about the Houston Area Pastor Council mentioned in this blog:
http://www
Seems they are predominately about voting and mixing that ol' church and state thing.
"Why does Word always indent and number things in lists whether I want it to or not?"
1. I often curse about this very same thing...
Tools -> Options -> Uncheck everything with the prefix "auto" attached to it.
I know I know! You're just joking !! I've known the feeling...
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