reader's mind once they had
been planted -- to mix a metaphor. However, in the aftermath of Carol
West's resignation, that seems unnecessarily naive, given the wilfulness
with which the hard questions are ignored in our society. So, here,
interposed, is my more elaborate opinion on abortion:
The far larger question, to me, is one of --what God therefore hath
joyned together let not man put asunder-- (Matthew 19:6, Mark 10:9).
(This, so far as I know, being the only genuinely Biblical quotation --
the Synoptic Jesus again, caveat emptor -- in the otherwise wholly and
completely secular Christian wedding ceremony is a major reason that I
have no objection to gay marriages. I'm reasonably certain that marriage
is a completely pagan, completely female invention no more sacred as an
institution than are feminism or communism. It is, after all, called
Matrimony and not Patrimony, isn't it? I mean, duh.) It seems to me
utterly foolish to ascribe virtually any of our society's haphazard --
literally --catch as catch can-- -- marriage unions to our Creator. In my
view, an omnipotent and omniscient being simply wouldn't have that lousy
a track record.
Pregnancy, it seems to me, is an altogether different matter.
Inexplicable as it is that some acts of coitus produce offspring while
others do not (despite the best efforts of medical science to establish
irrefutable --laws-- of cause-and-effect) it seems to me that here,
God's hand is very much in evidence and --what God hath joyned together
let not man put asunder-- -- sperm and egg, fertilized egg and uterine
wall -- very much applicable. If abortion is, as the feminists insist, a
matter of a woman having control over her own body, then I think a
public demonstration of a woman willing herself to become un-pregnant or
willing h
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