3 Quit Gym Over Fetus Christmas Tree

[pstokely]

http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/5579559/detail.html
LAWRENCE, Kan. -- A Christmas tree that a pregnancy counseling organization provided to a women's fitness center prompted three people to cancel their memberships because the tree is decorated with plastic figures meant to represent fetuses.
"This is insidious," said Kelly Jones, one of the women who quit Body Boutique last week. "This is in my gym."
She said the fitness center is a place to promote physical and mental health, not to confront a polarizing issue such as abortion

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. That's insane.

Completely insane. There's no other word for it. Just when I think things "can't be that bad" in other places, something like this happens.

[KitchenWitch]

2. I can't believe the gym allowed the tree to be there in the first place

Politically polarizing and bound to scare business away.

[TheFarseer]

46. A tree in itself is not controversial

at least it wasn't until Bill O'Reilly said it was. See how his blustering has scared people away from putting up trees for fear of controversy? He hurts the very cause he is supposedly fighting for.

[radwriter0555]

49. well since most women are pro-choice, and only 3 quit, it doesn't sound

like bad business at all.

It's not a bad idea for a business to promote women's health care choices. It certainly will appeal to the clientele of the similiar mindset.

[WildClarySage]

3. I would cancel my membership too.

[rodeodance]

4. people are going beyond overboard lately.

[Hekate]

5. That's a new low in grotesquery

The person or persons who concocted that idea are seriously unbalanced.

Hekate

[liberal N proud]

6. It is Kansas

[PatrioticOhioLiberal]

8. What's the matter with Kansas?

Maybe they're trying to be the most odd-ball state in the Union?

no insult intended to the "normal" folks in the state

[DanCa]

9. Good Superman's from Kansas :D

I wont let anyone bad mouth him.

[PatrioticOhioLiberal]

14. LOL...would NEVER bad mouth Superman

Erm...is he an normal Kansan? (Kansian? Kansite?)

[DanCa]

55. Lol just remember the song ... Dont step on Superman's cape :D

:D Kansansweenian? Or is it Kansaswerite? Taxi flashback.

[eppur_se_muova]

57. He's an orphan from the planet Krypton. Where is that "normal"?

Doesn't he draw his energy from the sun? He must be Green...

[Blue_Tires]

20. well Lawrence is generally a very liberal place

compared to the rest of the state; but some weird things have been going on since i left KU

[KittyWampus]

23. Kansas, the Land That Time Forgot...

Exceeded in it's Fundie excess only by Indiana.

[DanCa]

7. Oh my god

How can these people walk the streets without being medicated? Well anyone stand with me in picketing and protesting the right wing lunancy? DU is topping 75 thou mmembers imagine the look on thier faces if we showed up in mass on the national right to life's doorstep and demanded they leave us alone. We can't ignore these loonies any more we must rally and organize and produce mass counter demonstrations. Whose with me?

[demnan]

10. That tree sounds like a neat place

to hang those little knitted uteruses

http://wombsonwashington.org/

Also how about some male genitallia - can't leave the men out can we?

[POAS]

11. How about a basket full of free condoms under the tree

[KalicoKitty]

22. Or, decorate the tree with condoms and rename it a rubber tree.

:rofl:

[POAS]

29. ROFLMAO

[thoughtanarchist]

12. O Fetus tree, O Fetus Tree,

How lovely are thy.....

um....

nevermind.

:yoiks:

[Skinner]

13. LOL

So bad. So very bad.

[PatrioticOhioLiberal]

15. ROFL

n/t

[underpants]

18. Well THAT song is ruined now

Thanks

Very funny.

[Lochloosa]

16. The decorations I would have brought in

[stickdog]

40. Yes, after all tree ornaments do need hangers.

[ellie]

17. Who is surprised?

The cult of the fetus strikes again!

[Loonman]

19. What a bunch of tight-assed freaks

The women complaining, that is.

[Bridget Burke]

24. Why should women be at a gym in the first place?

Shouldn't they be at home--barefoot, pregnant & in the kitchen? With flabby asses, rather than tight ones.

[elehhhhna]

25. they're trying to make their bodies more attratctive so's they kin

entice innocent godly men into sin. duh.


wink.

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[rman]

27. Some people have a strange sense of humor.

[lukasahero]

30. "Uber-feminist"? So choosing not to give money to a company

that allows the promotion of anti-choice propoganda mixed with religious rhetoric is "uber-feminist"? Wow. I thought it was at the very least free market, perhaps even freedom of choice.

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[lukasahero]

39. Darn - I didn't even get to see it. :)

[Skinner]

34. "Tight-assed freaks"?

Nice.

Um, the only "freaks" in this story are the ones who hung little fetus ornaments on the Christmas tree. Regardles of how one feels about abortion, that is just creepy.

[Misunderestimator]

37. WTF? Wow.

I guess we know where you stand on women's issues. :wtf:

[atommom]

56. And why do you say that? Because they objected to a fetus tree,

or because they were women who didn't just STFU?

[KittyWampus]

21. From Same Kansas News Website- Man Mistakenly Locked In Jail F/ Month

Oy!

[progressoid]

28. Whaaaa?

Get this...

"Lorinda Hartzler, co-owner of Body Boutique, said that when Birthright of Lawrence asked about providing the tree it said it had no political agenda and wanted only to assist pregnant women in their decision-making process."

No politcal agenda. Yeah, right.

[bunkerbuster1]

31. Only THREE?

talk about your battered-wife syndrome...

[porphyrian]

33. What great taste! A fetus tree!

What a great way to celebrate the second most important Christian holiday, with plastic fetuses. Or is it feti? That's the spirit! Nothing says "birth of Jesus" quite like anti-abortionist sentiments displayed in a women's gym.

[LWolf]

35. Poor taste and poor judgement.

We abhor their "war on christmas" rhetoric. Why is it ok to turn a public holiday tree into a political statement or an advertisement? Why not just forget the tree, and leave brochures in the goddamned lobby?

[ThatsMyBarack]

36. That's horribly sick!

:puke: :nuke:

[stickdog]

38. Finally a use for dead fetuses that we can all agree on! (nt)

[Zomby Woof]

41. Only a matter of time...

...before lawns will be decorated with giant inflatable fetus ornaments. x(

[KitchenWitch]

42. About the time that happens

My front lawn will be festooned with giant coathangers!

[LynneSin]

43. They shouldn't quit - they should be throwing out the Xmas Tree

Burn it!

[crispini]

44. That whole thing is nuts

:crazy:

[Tsiyu]

45. Time for another tree

We need to adapt this Tree thing. Go out and decorate trees with photos of dead and maimed Iraqi children, then another with pictures of all the dead and elderly who died in New Orleans.

[KitchenWitch]

47. And perhaps another tree with coat hangers

and cards for Planned Parenthood.

[Tsiyu]

48. Exactly

We need to play the same game. Throw their murderous, sexist, ugly shit right back at them.

[marions ghost]

54. good idea

[marions ghost]

50. some enterprising artist

needs to get a photo of this tree quick! I want to see The Fetus Christmas Tree as the December entry in next year's Bush Era USA calendar.

[tblue37]

51. And did you read about how the US government opened an 81-year-old

Kansas University history prof's letter from his colleague in the Philippines--who is also in her 80s? It was on the front page of the Lawrence Journal-World today. They claim they do this sort of spying "to save American lives." Nonsense. There was no reason to suspect these two retired history professors of threatening American lives!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5646196&mesg_id=5646196

Spread this story around!

BTW, the Lawrence Journal-World, my hometown rag, is a paper you can use to track the nuttiness that goes on in our lovely little state:
http://www.ljworld.com

[roguevalley]

52. fetus tree. we are indeed the dumbest mofos in the world

[No Exit]

53. And they say ELF is crazy?????

And they say OTHER environmental groups are "wacko"?

Sheesh, these people are the wacko-est of the wacko!

Why isn't Rush Limbaugh braying about how extreme these barking moonbats are?? He has popularized the term "environmental wackos". Now it's time to popularize the term "anti-abortion wackos", Addict Boy. Do it for your country. You're interested in spreading truth, aren't you?

(Oh, I forgot. You're NOT interested in spreading truth... You're just interested in snorting Hillbilly Heroin...)