Lying Sacks of S*** of The Week: “Christian” Pregnancy Centers

[riqster]

http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/lying-sacks-of-s-of-the-week-christian-pregnancy-centers/

Snip:

"What Would Jesus Lie About? The answer would appear to be “just about everything”, if a woman goes into a taxpayer-funded Crisis Pregnancy Center and asks a question:

“When a woman walked into a state-funded “crisis pregnancy center” in Manassas, Va., this summer and told the counselor she might be pregnant, she was told that condoms don’t actually prevent STDs and that birth control frequently causes hair loss, memory loss, headaches, weight gain, fatal blood clots and breast cancer.”

More at the link.

[hobbit709]

1. did anyone really expect anything different?

[riqster]

2. Of course not.

That doesn't mean they should not be held up for public ridicule when they meet our expectations.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. I did just the opposite.

I was doing the midnight shift of an answering service almost 20 years ago. A 15 year old girl called around 4 a.m., crying that she was scared that she might be pregnant because the condom broke. I told her about three different programs including Planned Parenthood and free county clinics. I then cross-examined her. Could she tell me the five most effective forms of birth control and their failure rates? No, she couldn't. I told her that until she could do the same, to stay out of back seats. To take responsibility for her fertility. Nothing preachy but firm in my convictions. She listened and calmed down. I've wondered what happened to her.

[jehop61]

4. what kind of answering service?

Sounds like you may have overstepped your bounds. This type of questioning seems pretty intrusive for a non-professional.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Generic answering service

I may or may not have overstepped. The discussion naturally developed by her initiative.

[yellerpup]

7. You gave her what she needed.

Good advice, compassionately given is never an overstep.

[riqster]

6. Doesn't sound like a "Christian" pregnancy "counseling" center

Those places are fronts for evangelization and propaganda, funded by tax dollars.

[Enthusiast]

8. They are fundamentalists.

Fundamentally dishonest.

[sulphurdunn]

9. The ideologues motto:

Truth is absolute.
Information that supports my beliefs is factual.
Information that does not support them is false.
Therefore: What I believe is absolute truth.

[sakabatou]

14. Should be edited to "My truth is absolute."

[sulphurdunn]

15. Good suggestion.

[mountain grammy]

10. Taxpayer funded "faith based" charities' bullshit!

I stand on the First Amendment. Stop funding churches!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

11. this!

Those CPC's are a crisis alright.

[riqster]

13. The Establishment Clause, too.

Comes even earlier in the Constitution.

[hunter]

12. Don't you know? Pregnancy is a punishment from God.

Unless you are raped, preferably by your husband. Then it's a gift.

A reasonable adult who wanted to prevent abortions would teach kids everything there is know about sex, the good, the bad, the ugly, and they would make birth control easily available.

The lies these misogynist death cults spread are the cause of the "crisis."