Colorado Springs: a playground for pro-life, pro-gun evangelical Christians

[niyad]

Colorado Springs: a playground for pro-life, pro-gun evangelical Christians

Anti-abortion rhetoric is not hard to find in the city where the ‘fortress-like’ Planned Parenthood centre is the subject of regular protests


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People are escorted away from the scene by police after a gunman opened fire at a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs on Friday. Photograph: Daniel Owen/ZUMA Press/Corbis


Colorado Springs, the location of an attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic that left three people dead, is a centre of rightwing Christian culture with a “wild west mentality” when it comes to guns.
The attack, by a lone gunman carrying a rifle or shotgun, took place at a clinic that is the site of regular anti-abortion protests by the city’s pro-life Christian groups.

Planned Parenthood, aware of hostility about their work, recently moved to the new facility, hoping it would provide more security for staff. The building has been likened to a fortress by anti-abortion campaigners and Friday’s attacks revealed that it is equipped with “safe rooms” for staff to shelter in the event of such an event. It also has an extensive security camera system.

With anti-abortion policies supported by many Republican presidential candidates such as Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Jeb Bush, rhetoric attacking Planned Parenthood and other such organisations is not hard to find in the city. Last spring, following the gruesome attack on a Colorado woman who had her unborn-baby ripped from her womb with a knife, state representative and Springs resident Gordon Klingenschmitt said the attack was “the curse of God upon America for our sin of not protecting innocent children in the womb”.

Colorado’s second largest city, with a population of 445,800, has built itself a reputation as a playground for white, pro-gun, pro-life Evangelical Christians. It is also home to one army base, two air force bases, and an air force.

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/28/colorado-springs-a-playground-for-pro-life-pro-gun-evangelical-christians

[malaise]

1. I'm amazed that GEM$NBComcast and CNN can't find

Cecile Richards and more PP folks.

This is an attack on a major American Institution. There should be massive outrage.

[niyad]

2. instead, we have some puke blowhard demanding that the head of rocky mountain PP APOLOGIZE

for blaming puke rhetoric creating domestic terrorism.

[malaise]

7. They thrive on an inversion of reality

and the media assists them 24/7

[niyad]

8. it is almost beyond belief, but we see it each and every day.

[malaise]

9. Just follow the coverage

First they did all they could to pretend it was not the Planned Parenthood building that was the only building attacked.

Now it's they don't know why he did it and what a great job the cops did.

No discussion on the terror meted out to Planned Parenthood across America and the war on women and their health care. Not a word of coverage on the celebrations among RW Fundie ReTHUGs.

[etherealtruth]

3. This has been an ongoing problem for over a decade

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2013/02/22/february-22-2013-colorado-springs-evangelicals/14792/

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/religion-jan-june06-air_02-22/

http://www.prayinjesusname.org/wp-content/uploads/File/Frenzy/PBSReligionEthics22Jan06.pdf

[niyad]

4. believe me, I KNOW--I have to deal with them each and every day.

[etherealtruth]

5. Oh, I am sorry for that

[niyad]

6. thank you. I tend to regard them as human scratching posts.