Monday, June 30, 2008
A Question for Barak Obama
In fairness to the candidate, he does not exactly say, "Fatherhood begins at conception." Tony Perkins takes it to mean nearly that, and launches his question from there.
In fairness to Tony Perkins, if "responsibility doesn't just end at conception," what does it do at conception? In that clip Barak Obama is working hard to affirm what is taught in most American churches -- that a father's responsibility for the welfare of his child begins at conception. This is essentially do different from, "Fatherhood begins at conception." But he is not allowed to say it in those terms. If a father's responsibility for the welfare of his child begins at conception, then the mother's right to an abortion cannot be absolute. In fact, if a father's responsibility begins at conception (and Barak Obama clearly knows that it does), it can only be because the child is a living human being with an inalienable right to life -- men don't have fatherly relationships with an ovi or any other non-human tissue mass in the bodies of women. Mr. Obama has spent his entire political career working hard to make sure that women have an unfettered right to destroy the babies in their wombs throughout the entire pregnancy and even beyond the pregnancy.
...Forgive me for overstating the obvious, but I thought this was a great video clip, and I've been trying off-and-on to figure out how to embed youtube videos for a very long time. (Did it work?)
HT: Delight in Understanding
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That was great! I need to share that one.
-Zan
Yes, it worked.
To be fair to the candidate, he didn't say that responsibility begins at conception. He said that responsibility doesn't end at conception. The implication is that the responsibility of a father precedes conception. The implication is clearly that a father's responsibility begins prior to conception and continues through pregnancy on through the rest of the child's life. That's even farther than Tony is trying to communicate (and, undoubtedly, farther than even Mr. Obama is trying to get across).
As usual, you were listening more carefully than I was, Stan. :)
...and not just to say, "I gotcha," but to make a very important point. If responsibility precedes conception, as Mr. Obama says, then it seems as though he is actually speaking to the social ill (sin?) of conception without marriage. I wonder if the NARAL crowd noticed? I wonder if they are smugly pleased with their candidate's slippery piece of deception presented for the consumption of a church-going audience?
In reference to Obama after hearing this (and many others like it), my husband said, "Me thinks the senator speaks with forked tongue."
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