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Originally Posted by skylark
I recently drove past a Planned Parenthood (that is NOT an office that performs abortions, BTW) only to see a family of four picketing. The two kids looked like they were both under the age of about 8. Regardless of how one might feel on the issue, I think this is disgusting... using your children (who are way too young to begin to understand such a very complicated issue) to support your own personal/religious/political agenda is just so wrong on so many levels.
In some ways, I think their picketing was more of a display of what totally awesome parents are out there. Did anyone else see Jesus Camp? The entire picketing scene reminded me of the scary christian-right parents from that movie.
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I have a friend from high school whose parents were like that. When she was young (like under 10), her parents regularly took her with them to picket and to anti abortion rallies. Knowing them personally, I wouldn't go so far as to group her parents with the Christian-right from Jesus Camp, but her stories about those experiences were very, very interesting nonetheless.
Now she's one of the most liberal people I know.
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