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HEY YOU, BARBARIAN! LOVE CAREFULLY!
Posted: Wednesday September 9, 2009 at 4:39 pm EST by Kortney Blythe
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While perusing a flea market booth comprised of old photos, news clippings and other vintage paraphernalia, I came upon a pre-Roe Planned Parenthood bumper sticker and promptly purchased it. Evidently, before PP ditched any effort to connect sex with love, they came out with this gem of a marketing scheme: “Love Carefully.”
In case you can’t see the picture well enough, I’ll describe it. On a bright pink background, a cave woman, holding a club, is deviously dragging an unconscious cave man with a flower in his mouth. Then in big letters, it says, “LOVE CAREFULLY! Planned Parenthood.”

Um, what? Not only is the picture perpetuating the now-pervasive theme of de-masculinized and feeble men, but it begs the question: What does an androgynous woman yielding a weapon and pulling along a lifeless man have to do with “love” or “being careful”? Should women hit men with sticks to avoid the “dangers” of sex? Is rendering another human unconscious an act of love? Okay, maybe I’m reading into a bumper sticker too much.
The barbarian theme, though, is strikingly appropriate. That’s what Planned Parenthood wants — a bunch of zombie-like, pleasure-seeking, responsibility-shirking Neanderthals mindlessly engaging in sexual acts. But, they expect these same hormone-crazed people who can’t control their natural impulses, to take certain “precautions.” I’ve always wondered how, on one hand, PP thinks that humans are too weak, animalistic or overwhelmed with hormones to practice chastity and yet they expect those same humans to be thoughtful, controlled and mature enough to take a pill at the same time every day or stop “in the heat of the moment” and use a condom?
Pick a side; do you believe we are highly evolved animals who should give in to our every desire? (This has far-reaching, frightful implications.) Or are we moral agents, made in the image of God, who should say ‘no’ to “ungodliness and worldly desires, and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age” (Titus 2:12)?
Apparently, when this sticker was created, PP recognized that most people associate sex with love (a connection that they’ve now successfully severed). “Love Carefully” was an early rendition of the now ubiquitous phrase “safe sex.” And I’ve written plenty on the true meaning of that phrase.
If you truly want to know what it means to “love carefully,” read 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” |
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And apparently they still use this motto, but now the picture is a heart with a smiling condom on it.
http://pppasadena.com/ppswcf/love-carefully-23719.htm Kortney Blythe | September 11, 2009 2:19 pm
Is 'lust' even a form of love? I don't think so... according to Corinthians. In fact, according to scripture we are supposed to FLEE LUST and SELFISH AMBITION... my response to the bumper sticker Jane Blythe | September 14, 2009 11:47 am
I am deeply moved by this article "Barbarian, Love Carefully". So true are the words that never change from our Lord! Let us never compromise the true meaning of Love! Darline Smith | September 14, 2009 2:17 pm
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CORPUS CHRISTI ROCK FOR LIFE CHAPTER UPDATE!
Posted: Wednesday September 9, 2009 at 3:37 pm EST by Kortney Blythe
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On September 3, Rock for Life Corpus Christi members and I were able to attend the 20th Annual "Celebration for Life" Banquet. Thanks to one of our benefactors, Lee Ezell was the speaker that night. RFLCC was able to have a ministry table along with the dinner table.

On September 22, the Nueces County Health District will decide a vote on whether to allow Planned Parenthood funding. We lost the battle last month to defund PP from the city's funding. We're going to try to be there to support the other local pro-life groups.
 
A young girl we met at the Celebration for Life got PP out of her High School, and she was interested in learning more about what we do in RFL.
We're planning to have our monthly RFL meeting/rally this month, but the date has not been confirmed as of yet. We've been passing out fliers for PLMD.
~Jeremy
RFLCC

Interested in starting a chapter? Contact Kortney. Also, visit our chapter list to see if there is on in your area. |
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lol, this was fun, but I don't remember telling anyone I was ok with a picture of me being on this blog! :( lol. Ada | September 9, 2009 10:02 pm
Hey Ada, congrats on being able to drag so many people from school out there! LOL
Sorry I missed it. Isaac K. | September 12, 2009 6:08 pm
thank you i think? lol.
It's fine, don't worry about it. :) Ada | September 20, 2009 7:22 pm
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PHOTOS: JUST UPLOADED NEW PHOTOS FROM SUMMER FESTIVALS TOUR
Posted: Tuesday September 8, 2009 at 5:21 pm EST by Erik Whittington
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Check them out here!
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GREENVILLE ROCK FOR LIFE HOSTS 'LIFE FEST' WITH 'IDLE DOWN'
Posted: Tuesday September 8, 2009 at 2:27 pm EST by Kortney Blythe
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In a world of injustice and human rights atrocities waged against the born and preborn alike - a new Rock for Life group in Greenville, South Carolina wants to know – “Where is the love?”
The group will answer just that on September 12 at “Life Fest” – a celebration of personhood and human rights.
Pro-life activists Rev. Patrick Tuttle, OFM, Stephanie Wood Weinert, Elizabeth Hudacko and Rock for Life’s own chapter coordinator Kortney Blythe will speak at the event while South Carolina band Idle Down is set to perform.
“I’m excited to attend this event and work with our Greenville chapter to spread the message of restoring personhood to all,” Blythe said. “These young people are the present and future pro-life leaders who will usher in a new culture of life for the upcoming generations.”
The event will take place at St. Joseph's Catholic School from 5 - 10 p.m. Admission is $10. Register at the web site below. Rock for Life merchandise will be available for purchase.
More information is available at http://www.kofc8182.org/rfl_online_reg_09.php
Rock for Life, a project of American Life League,works with hundreds of bands and thousands of pro-life youth who use music as a means to engage, educate and equip our culture to be advocates for LIFE. “You will not silence my message, you will not mock my God, you will stop killing my generation.” |
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WANT TO BE THE THE COOL AUNT?
Posted: Thursday September 3, 2009 at 11:24 am EST by Kortney Blythe
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The National Sexuality Resource Center, a far left, radical sex-pedaling project of San Francisco State University, recently launched a website called coolaunt.org.
The purpose and message of this site is to encourage adults to be the “cool aunt” in a child’s life. The “cool aunt,” in their own words, is “someone who isn't afraid to answer the hard, funny and perplexing questions about sex.”
To some, this may sound harmless or even helpful. But beware. If you dig deeper, you’ll find that this “cool aunt” is really someone meant to undermine a child’s parents by teaching intimate sexual details and answering questions about sexual morality “when parents, teachers, ministers and other mentors couldn’t or wouldn’t deliver answers.”
Still, maybe you’re thinking this “cool aunt” figure could be a good supplementary guide for a child with questions about sex. Think again. After thorough reading of the website, one finds the descriptions and the words used to describe people who teach their children values and chastity to be revealing of the true intent of the “cool aunt” program — to counter the “fear-mongering forces that stigmatize sex.”
Fear-mongering? Really? According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a fearmonger is “one inclined to raise or excite alarms especially needlessly.” I’d say that when 1 in 4 people have a sexually transmitted disease, one-third of women get pregnant before age 20 and over 3,000 children are slaughtered per day (and all of this is the result of unbridled sex), the alarm needs to be sounded. Children should have a healthy fear of premarital sex. To assuage these godly fears is irresponsible, unrealistic and just plain evil.
The website goes on with the attacks on righteousness, claiming that a “cool aunt” is needed to “confront abstinence-only education myths at a time when years of shaming young people about sex have led to a dramatic rise in the rates of STIs and teen pregnancies.”
Confront abstinence-only myths? What myths? That abstinence is the only 100% effective way to prevent pregnancy and STDs? That’s an undeniable fact, not a myth. Come on!
And shaming has led to an increase in disease and pregnancy? WHAT SHAME? Have these people watched TV lately? Sit through five minutes of a teen drama series and it’s obvious we have NO shame! “You’re cute. I like you.” Cut to next scene: teenager 1 and teenager 2 are rolling on a bed, removing clothing, it is implied that they have intercourse. And that’s a tame example.
Plus, there should be shame attached to sin. If NSRC spent more time teaching sexual purity and less time fighting for a made-up “right to pleasure and sexuality,” maybe then we’d see less disease-ridden, depressed and lonely kids.
Speaking of what NSRC puts its efforts into, one of the themes it reiterates is teaching young people “sexual literacy.”
Sexual literacy? America’s public schools can’t even teach basic literacy and the NSRC thinks sexual literacy should be a priority? Give me a break. Picture this: a teacher says to a classroom of children, “Since we couldn’t get you to master the traditional subjects of reading, writing and arithmetic, this year we are switching to sexual literacy, abortion rights and gender issues.”
Think this is far-fetched? Think the NSRC is a fringe group that has no impact on society as a whole? Wrong. Just read the recently released UN report on sex, which advocates teaching masturbation to 5-year-olds.
As for being the “cool aunt,” you may not be viewed as “cool” any longer when the young person — whom you assured that sex is fun and no big deal — comes to you with herpes and a broken heart.
Telling a young person in this day and age to be chaste may result in rolled eyes and mockery, earning you labels such as “prude” or “goody-goody.” But is it such a bad thing? When I looked up the definition of “prude,” I found a description that I would proudly wear: “a person who is greatly concerned with seemly behavior and morality, especially regarding sexual matters.”
But Kortney, thinking kids aren’t going to have sex is unrealistic. Noooooo, thinking that giving kids so-called “comprehensive sex education” will protect them from the consequences of premarital sex is unrealistic. How many years of unaffected (or increasing) statistics will it take before we wake up! Teaching sexual purity and the life-altering consequences of the alternative is the ONLY thing that works. |
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VIDEO: COLLEGE PROFESSOR CALLS "ABORTION IS HOMICIDE" HOODIE "HATE SPEECH"
Posted: Monday August 31, 2009 at 11:52 am EST by Erik Whittington
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Watch and tell us what you think
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Go her! I wouldn't take it off either. Whitney | August 31, 2009 12:21 pm
Homicide - the act of killing another human being.
Synonyms: Murder, Assassination, Killing
Notes: The general term for the killing of one person by another is homicide, murder is commonly used to refer to intentional homicides.
Abortion: The act of intentionally terminating pregnancy resulting in the destruction of the embryo/fetus.
So, Abortion is intentional. If abortion is homicide, and not JUST regular old homicide but INTENTIONAL homicide, then Abortion is murder.
Unfortunately for those who oppose women's reproductive freedom, Abortion is NOT classified as homicide in the USA. Therefore, your shirt is erroneous.
However, the Professor is correct in that it is hateful. It assigns an illegal connotation to a legal act.
Abortion is Wrong? Perfectly Acceptable. Those who perform abortions will rot in hell? I'm fine with that too. Abortion is Murder? Well, thats just not true. Vlad | September 1, 2009 12:22 am
The term embryo / fetus used in your definition begs the question: What kind of entity is it that is in the embryo / fetal stage of development referred to it the definition? Well since humans can only beget humans that would make him/her a human being in his/her embryonic or fetal stage of development. Since all human beings are human persons (or at least should be but aren't because of a tyrannical US Supreme Court decision giving a mother the legal protection to pay an abortionist to kill her own child) therefore the definition of homicide does apply since it is one human being (abortionist) killing another (human child in utero). Erik Whittington | September 3, 2009 2:34 pm
So, Erik, is abortion Murder?
And if so, are you prepared to call those who perform legal abortions murderers of children?
If so, the women who choose to have an abortion would also legally be complicit in such 'murder.'
I await your response. Vlad | September 4, 2009 1:51 am
Homicide, murder, infanticide - all are fair and accurate descriptions of abortion. A govt. proclaiming something is legal does not change the definition of that thing. Hateful? Not nearly as hateful as the act of abortion. liz andring | September 4, 2009 11:00 am
Hey Erik, hope you don't mind my answering this for you.
Hey Vlad, fetuses are babies, and hence, persons. Therefore, abortion is murder, and those who participate in it are murderers. However, many women feel forced into abortion by the fact that a baby would make it really frikkin' hard to continue with college, career, relationship or whatever. That doesn't make it right; it means that we need to provide more feasible alternatives to abortion (like adoption or creating a setting in which it is easier to simultaneously raise a child and support oneself). Isaac K. | September 22, 2009 2:41 pm
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