For the past week, thousands of bloggers have been writing about Hurricane Katrina. Here are seven that take a slightly different approach than what you are likely to hear:
- Kobayashi Maru finds that more than material goods are needed in 'Hurricane' Building Codes: Rock?... or Sand?
- Kevin Hedges sees in the hurricane victims some parallels to a wider predicament in Ich bin ein hurricane victim
- Hal Paxton calls for a day of prayer and fasting
- Matt Stokes has An Elegy for New Orleans
- Via Justin Taylor comes this reflection by Sam Storms, Katrina, Common Grace, and a Theory about the End of the Age
- Barbara Curtis has some thoughts on Planned Parenthood's role in natural and man-made disaster
- Jim Gilbert shares tales of recovery efforts in Gulfport/Biloxi in his post Serving God, Conquering Katrina
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So you're going to criticize Planned Parenthood for bringing in contraceptives? Seems like an exceptionally good idea to me. Never mind "how people even think oh having sex during such a crisis," let's not forget that there have been at least a few rapes during such a crisis.
But hey, if those rapes result in pregnancy, I suppose this "new life" that results is a "symbol of hope and recovery." Or perhaps she would have preferred that they truck in desperately-needed rocks, with which to stone all those sinners and adulterers to death...
Absolutely disgusting. And it's "Christian love and understanding" on display for all to see.
posted on 09.07.2005 10:38 AM3
...let's not forget that there have been at least a few rapes during such a crisis.
So are you saying that PP brought in the condoms for the rapists to use? If not, then I fail to see your point. Do you really believe that the most pressing need in NOLA is contraceptives? You don't see this as yet another example of an idealogy-driven organization using a tragedy to further their own agenda?
posted on 09.07.2005 10:44 AM4
Joe:
*sigh* Apparently reading comprehension isn't your cup of tea. Only in your uber-closed mindset does "contraceptive" mean "condom" and only "condom." From Barbara:
Time after time we've heard them boast of rushing into ravaged places like Kosovo, Ground Zero and now Louisiana with morning-after pills aplenty.
"Morning-after pills," also known as "emergency contraception. And birth control pills, also known as "oral contraception," which, if taken proactively, would prevent pregnancy from resulting in the tragic-but-real event of a rape.
But instead, you go for the cheap points and accuse me of suggesting that rapists should wear condoms. Take your damn ideological blinders off for two seconds and maybe you'll see there are very real reasons why this is a good idea.
And for what it's worth, yes, people are still going to have consensual sex, even (perhaps especially) in trying times such as these, and yes, those people should have access to contraceptives, even condoms. But even apart from your obvious distaste for that truism, it's still good idea to provide contraception.
posted on 09.07.2005 11:18 AM5
PP's locked into the same rut as Fred Phelps (three guesses what he blamed Katrina on) and computer geeks (where it's called "Cat-dead-rat-ism"):
1) When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
2) If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
posted on 09.07.2005 2:14 PM6
the anti-condom stance is for catholics, get a new soapbox. the rest of the world wants less unwanted pregnancies.
posted on 09.08.2005 7:53 AM8
I also came across a good summary of the Christian view point at http://thebookofshadow.blogspot.com/2005/09/hurricane-katrina-and-god.html.
posted on 09.15.2005 11:07 AM