From: elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg)
Subject: Re: DATELINE: Bush shows his love for his children!
Originator: elf@halcyon.com
Reply-To: elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg)
Organization: Pendor, UnLtd.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 10:23:33 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.152733.15056@ncsu.edu>
      dsh@odin.ece.ncsu.edu ( ) writes:

>In article <1992Aug13.084028.22888@nwnexus.WA.COM> 
>elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg) writes:
>
>> This translates to "My granddaughter has a choice, so I can't stop
>> her from exercising that choice.  But I'm going to do my damnedest to
>> take that choice away from her.  To stifle her freedom and her will."

>You assume that his granddaughter is pro-choice.  Maybe she isn't.

   I assume no such thing; the question posed to Bush was "If your
daughter CHOSE to have an abortion," and his reply was "I would support
her in her CHOICE." (Paraphrase; emphasis mine).

   The point being, my "translation" is _exactly_ what George Bush said.
"I can't stop her _now_, but I'm doing everything I can."

>In any event, I'm sure there are lots of issues that President Bush
>and his children might disagree on.  He can't be commanded to lead 
>the country through the will of his children.   

   No, but if he _truly_ beleived abortion to be murder (and make no
mistake-- by the "pro-life" crowd's argument, it would be _first
degree_ murder, planned over a period of days and targeting an innocent
human being), I would expect some reaction other than "I would support
her in her decision."

   Oh, yeah, Bush said "decision," didn't he?

   DECISION: the act or process of coming to a CHOICE
   (Webster's 9th Collegiate dictionary) (emphasis mine)

>>> I can't imagine any loving parent would reject their children because
>>> they made a decision which the parent did not approve of.

>>   "Mom... Dad... I'm, um... I'm Gay."
>>   Now tell me that formerly "loving" parents would NEVER reject their
>>children for a decision they made.

>Loving parents would never reject a child because the child is gay.

   "Loving parents" (YES, those are sneer quotes) reject gay children
every day.  Why else is the suicide rate among teenagers FIVE HUNDRED
PERCENT HIGHER when the teenagers are homosexual?  Makes ya wonder...
There's a lot that "loving parents" will put up with.  "Loving parents"
I know were VERY "understanding" when their son KILLED someone because
he was driving drunk.  They weren't so understanding when their
daughter told them she was a lesbian... they kicked her out of the
house.

   Come to think of it, I know a _very_ catholic set of parents who are
putting their daughter through college, all expenses paid, even though
they know she's had at least one abortion.  Their son, on the other
hand, has been a pariah since his eighteenth birthday, when he came out
to them.

   "Loving parents."  Hmph.  Being gay is, even today, the ULTIMATE sin
a child can commit; most "loving parents" still don't handle it very
well.

         Elf !!!
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