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catscradle Jul. 21st, 2005 12:58 pm)
catscradle Jul. 21st, 2005 12:58 pm)It's 102 degrees and the abortion protesters are out in force. I was walking down the street from where I work and I ran into a mob of them. There was a big truck circling the block with large depictions of aborted fetuses and signs saying that homosexuality was a sin and Islam a lie. In the 4 years I've been here, I've never seen anything like it before. So natureally I talked to them and picked up their literature. Here's a transcript of the conversation:
Me: Hi. What's going on here?
Man1: We're having an anti-abortion demonstration.
Me: I see. It's pretty hot out here. Any special reason for having it today? I don't think I've ever seen you here before.
Man2: Yeah. You see that university (point to the Iliff School of Theology).
Me: Yeah.
Man2: It's pro-abort.
Me: I see. You mean pro-choice?
Man1: Well, no. Pro-abort.
Me: Do you think they want to abort them all?
Man2: It's getting there.
Me: Showing solidarity for Bush's supreme court nomination?
Man1: No. No, it's not about that. See this school (points to the University of Denver)? Clinton's minister is going to be here tonight. He's pro-abort.
Me: Oh, I see. You're killing two birds with one stone then. Protesting Clinton and Iliff.
Man1: Yeah. (hands me literature)
Me: Thank you. (abortion truck take another turn around the block) Are they performing abortions in there?
Man2: What?!
Me: In the truck. There's an aborted fetus on the back of it. I thought maybe Iliff was advertising or maybe sending out the troops now.
Man1: (laughs) Oh no. We're preaching the word. That's the life Iliff believes is okay to just throw away. We're demonstrating the atrocities of abortion. It's disturbing, I know. I wish we didn't have to do that.
Me: What does being homosexual have to do with abortion? Are lesbians getting pregnant to abort the babies?
Man2: I don't know what lesbians do. Both abortion and homosexuality are an abomination against God.
Man1: Are you Christian?
Me: Yeah. Catholic.
Man1: Okay. Catholic. Yeah. Alright. (nods a few times)
Me: Thank you for the information.
Man1: Yeah, okay.
Me: Drink pleanty of liquids, it's hot out here. All life is percious, even yours.
Man1: Yeah (laughs), okay.
Man2: Amen!
Man1: (shouts to me as I walk away) Keep spreading God's word!
Pro-choice, pro-life... Truly it's just too damn hot to protest anything. All in all, they were polite to me and they weren't the "God HATES (insert current vogue abomination)!" variety, so I'll give points for that. Though I had to laugh when the man was trying to decide if me being Catholic was okay with him or not. You could seem him mentally wrestling with the issue. In the end I guess he decided that Catholics came down on the right side of at least two of the issues, so it'd be okay. When I first started talking to them you could tell they were getting ready for a fight. I think it shocked them that I was polite and didn't start an argument. I skipped the part about being a pro-choice bi-sexual anachist. This was just a reconnaissance mission.
Me: Hi. What's going on here?
Man1: We're having an anti-abortion demonstration.
Me: I see. It's pretty hot out here. Any special reason for having it today? I don't think I've ever seen you here before.
Man2: Yeah. You see that university (point to the Iliff School of Theology).
Me: Yeah.
Man2: It's pro-abort.
Me: I see. You mean pro-choice?
Man1: Well, no. Pro-abort.
Me: Do you think they want to abort them all?
Man2: It's getting there.
Me: Showing solidarity for Bush's supreme court nomination?
Man1: No. No, it's not about that. See this school (points to the University of Denver)? Clinton's minister is going to be here tonight. He's pro-abort.
Me: Oh, I see. You're killing two birds with one stone then. Protesting Clinton and Iliff.
Man1: Yeah. (hands me literature)
Me: Thank you. (abortion truck take another turn around the block) Are they performing abortions in there?
Man2: What?!
Me: In the truck. There's an aborted fetus on the back of it. I thought maybe Iliff was advertising or maybe sending out the troops now.
Man1: (laughs) Oh no. We're preaching the word. That's the life Iliff believes is okay to just throw away. We're demonstrating the atrocities of abortion. It's disturbing, I know. I wish we didn't have to do that.
Me: What does being homosexual have to do with abortion? Are lesbians getting pregnant to abort the babies?
Man2: I don't know what lesbians do. Both abortion and homosexuality are an abomination against God.
Man1: Are you Christian?
Me: Yeah. Catholic.
Man1: Okay. Catholic. Yeah. Alright. (nods a few times)
Me: Thank you for the information.
Man1: Yeah, okay.
Me: Drink pleanty of liquids, it's hot out here. All life is percious, even yours.
Man1: Yeah (laughs), okay.
Man2: Amen!
Man1: (shouts to me as I walk away) Keep spreading God's word!
Pro-choice, pro-life... Truly it's just too damn hot to protest anything. All in all, they were polite to me and they weren't the "God HATES (insert current vogue abomination)!" variety, so I'll give points for that. Though I had to laugh when the man was trying to decide if me being Catholic was okay with him or not. You could seem him mentally wrestling with the issue. In the end I guess he decided that Catholics came down on the right side of at least two of the issues, so it'd be okay. When I first started talking to them you could tell they were getting ready for a fight. I think it shocked them that I was polite and didn't start an argument. I skipped the part about being a pro-choice bi-sexual anachist. This was just a reconnaissance mission.
