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...CAN’T be Catholic and pro-abortion,” reads one bumper sticker slogan from the American Life League (ALL), one of the largest pro-life organizations in the United States, whose mission is “to serve God by helping to build a society that respects and protects individual innocent human beings from inception to natural death...
...audiences understand, resulting in caricatured and destructive images of each side. The annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. and the tagline frequently found on the back of ALL T-shirts illustrate this communication lapse: “You will not silence my message / You will not mock my God / You will stop killing my generation...
Unfortunately, most do not take kindly to accusations of mass homicide and mockery of my God (not their God, my God). This tactic not only unnecessarily paints abortion as a predominantly spiritual issue to which many cannot relate, but it also creates a potentially irreconcilable segregation between “pious pro-lifers” and “blasphemous, pro-choice killers.” It builds an image of the pro-lifer as a judgmental preacher, rather than a compassionate rationalist...
Then she shrugged her shoulders, paused, and said simply, “Thank God I came here...
...Taylor said it is evangelicals' insistence on the literal truth of the Bible that leads them to too often belittle science and at the same time overlook more fundamental truths expressed by the Bible's use of deeply powerful myths and metaphors. "When we say God is the Father, we aren't trying to say he is like my dad," Taylor says...