Wm H from the Amazing Facts blog has a new post today …

I admire him for having the courage to put up a link to such a graphic web site. Before I add the same link here, I need to pass on some of the warnings Wm was careful to post:

Click here for the link to the page Wm provided … and here for the link to the site’s index page. You go at your own risk …

We live in a society that is beyond self-centered. We want instant gratification, and no consequences from any of our actions. It doesn’t matter that the “consequences” include another human life … it doesn’t matter that the other human life would not even be if we hadn’t been gratifying ourselves to begin with … it doesn’t matter that the new, genetically complete person, will never have the chance to experience that same gratification, or for that matter, ANY gratification, ever … none of that matters - as long as we don’t have to suffer from the consequences of our own actions.

Women don’t want to be relegated to being “baby incubators” … oh my! The pathos of it all! Baby incubators! I wonder how the baby who had the misfortune to end up in the womb of such a selfish, self-gratifying woman feels? I’m sure he’d be more than happy to pull up stakes, pack up his little bags, and go elsewhere … if he had a choice. Unfortunately, he has no more choice about where he ended up, than he has about whether his very life is going to be “inconvenient” to the person who put him there … during an act of self-gratification.

How cheap life has become. We’re “enlightened” humanists, and moral morons. We’ve raised two generations of children who want to save the baby seals and the rain forests, but who sacrifice their own children on the altar of their “convenience.”

It’s truly frightening to be growing old, and to be sick, knowing that when I’m at my most vulnerable, I’m going to be in the care of a generation of people who were willing accomplices to the murder of the most helpless and innocent of the human race: the unborn baby.

After much planning, I met with two very old friends last night. One is a cousin, and the other is a girl I was friends with back in gammar school. In both cases, the last time we’d seen each other was about 28 years ago, at the baptism of my oldest son, and the meeting was brief; the last time we’d really talked was over 40 years ago.

It seemed strange to be together after all of this time. They were the only two people I had really been close to, as a youngster. I remember my surprise when I’d discovered that my cousin, who was also my dear friend, was the cousin of my other dear friend from school. We were cousins on our fathers’ side, they were counsins on their mothers’ side.

And last night - we closed Longhorn’s in Portland, with a promise to do it again soon, and we will. I’m sure we will. We all three find ourselves at the same “time” in our lives, with many of the same thoughts, the same concerns. Will we be “good” for each other? Right now, I’m not so sure … we have way too many “hurts” in common, I think.

Of the many things we shared, what amazed me the most is that we’re basically the same people we were 40 years ago. I recognize the same attitudes, the same way of seeing life … we just seem to be a lot more jaded …

When I was diagnosed two years ago, I went through some radical changes. I think I’ve broken every paradigm I ever had … yet these dear old girls tell me that I haven’t changed since they last knew me well - over four decades ago. It makes me wonder if all of my “changes” are hidden inside, or if perhaps I had changed before my illness, and now I’ve gone back to being who I was originally …

I’m not sure it really matters.

Thank you, blog land, for letting me share this little “bump” in the road of my life.

“It’s me, T.J.” posted a wonderful piece on the 12th … called “Normal Abnormalities.” It was absolutely delightful! Please take time out to read it … IF you’re not someone who hides behind PC silliness.

And if you are … well, maybe you should go read it anyway … >:-)

“We should look long and hard, and never forget, what the inevitable outcome of contemporary secularism will produce: shallow, empty humanity, exterminating our young to preserve our shopping preferences.”

Dr. Bob Finnerty
Intellectual Giants, Moral Midgets

Oh my yes … and it’s going to get a lot worse before we realize who our real enemy is. Would that we could see beyond our own selfish greed, and just what it is we’re trading our lives (and theirs) for.

I voted this week. That gives me “bitching rights,” right? The biggest problem with earning “bitching rights” is that there’s so much to say that I have no idea where to begin bitching!

Here in Maine, the “gay rights” movement has been repeatedly stuffed up our noses, down our throats … and into other orifices best left unmentioned.

Now, before I go any further, I need to state my own basic position where gays are concerned. What they do behind closed doors is their problem, not mine! I don’t know what they do, I don’t want to know what they do … any more than I want to invite all of you into my own bedroom to experience what I do.

Also, there are people that I know and love dearly who are gay. I don’t condemn them to their faces, and I don’t condemn them in the silence of my heart. When they die, they will be face to face with their Creator - as we all will be. They will have to answer for everything they did - both good and bad. It will all be between them - and God. When I die, I’ll go through the same thing. God left us each our free will for a reason.

Back to what I was saying. The gay rights law has been thrown at us so many times that I’ve lost count. Each time, the state has voted it down. The legislature took it upon itself to instate the law anyway - in spite of the people’s consistent voting record. So this time, we were voting whether to repeal the law …

… I may as well not have bothered going to the polls. I almost didn’t. I wonder if that’s why we lost … so many of us felt that it wouldn’t matter, they would just put it right back in again in spite of how we voted. It’s a losing battle.

And you know, it doesn’t matter who is going to be the happy recipient of a brand spanking shiny new “right,” if it’s gays, or the “Coalition of Women Who Prefer Cucumbers” … or even a particular church denomination … it doesn’t matter. I would consistently vote the same.

Why? Because you can’t give someone a special right without taking a natural right away from someone else!

If I want to rent out a spare bedroom, I no longer have the right to choose who’s going to live in my house with me! It would matter not if I had 3 small boys or adolescents in my home, I could still be forced to rent to a homosexual.

And even more basically … property rights. Oh my God! Property what??? … I’d better save that one for another post. It’s a story all its own.

You know, I’m not bigoted … not even against bigots. *cough* But I’m concerned about what I see as our natural rights slowly being eroded all over the country. We’ve got special rights for every minority under the sun … and for each of those rights, someone else has had to relinquish, on some level, the right to choose according to their own conscience, or even to verbally express their thoughts and beliefs. The really sad thing is that this is supposed to be an enlightened age - an age where freedom of choice reigns supreme.

• I’m free to murder an innocent unborn baby, who is only there to begin with because of a choice I made earlier, but I’m not free to decide whether or not I’ll use a seat belt?

• A criminal is free to break into my home, and then sue me if he busts his arse falling down my stairs … but I’m not free to have a gun in here, and use it to protect myself from him?

• A gay person is free to adopt a baby of the same sex … and I’m not even free to order my family life in such a way that my sons aren’t taught that the homosexual lifestyle is a valid alternative? … or to decide when, and how, they will learn about topics that destroy the innocence of childhood?

• And then, of course, our “freedom of religion” has become “freedom FROM religion” … we can’t even choose to display our faith publicly in the form of wishing people a Merry Christmas anymore.

Freedom of choice? Only if you choose to go along with the left. If you don’t, then you’re a bigot, homophobic, obstructionist, anal, a trouble maker, hopelessly outdated, anti-American, intolerant, and a danger to your own children.

And speaking of children … how far will it go? Will they eventually march right into our homes and take away our children?

I home-schooled my kids for the last eight years of their education. The states make it as hard as possible for parents to educate their children at home. Home-schooled children are not “on tap” for the daily indoctrination … the state has no control over what they’re taught.

They protest that home-schooled children’s education may not be “up to par” with their public-schooled peers. However, colleges all over the country are opening their doors to home-schoolers, because on an average, they’re better prepared than their peers. It also doesn’t hurt that they can think for themselves.

Of my own kids, today one of them is a chef, one is in his final year of studying to be a molecular biologist, and one, the mother of two very active little people, has gone back to college, and is maintaining a 4.0 average. I sincerely believe that, as the movement continues to grow, the government will continue to take yet stronger measures to slow it down - if not squash it completely.

I’m afraid. I’m terrified that I’m growing old and helpless, with a chronic illness that could become debilitating, in a society that is destructive of family, that has life track record that includes abortion and Terry Schiavo, and that has no respect for real freedom of choice.

If our forefathers could have foreseen …