[ ARC forum 2 ]
Written by Ivan at 21 Feb 2003 18:20:04: Re: QUESTION: Hate Groups
As an answer to: QUESTION: Hate Groups written by Greg at 21 Feb 2003 17:43:56:
>How do anti-circumcision groups differ from other hate groups like pro-lifers?
Well, let's see - both types have as their primary goals to protect innocent lives from surgically administered abuse and termination of healthy organs. Clearly, neither one is a 'hate group.' The vast majority of pro-lifers belive that life begins at a certain point before birth (for most of them they believe that point is at conception: I don't happen to accept that definition) and that therefore abortion is killing babies in utero. Therefore, they honestly believe that they are protecting innocent lives, just as the righteous gentiles who protected Jews from the Holocaust were protecting innocent lives. The vast majority of them also completely reject the violent tactics of the few who physically attack doctors and others involved in providing abortions. To lump all anti-abortion/pro-life groups with the kooks reveal you as a rampant moron.
And how on earth do you call anti-circumcision groups hate groups. They use arguments grounded in fact, principle and law to convince others that cutting away parts of the bodies of those too young to defend themselves is a wrong thing to do. Some also denounce the blatantly sexually-obsessive neuroses of the circumcision groupies, because those people so frequently spread lies about people and circumcision themselves. But they have always to my knowledge conducted themselves civilly, so there is no basis for your epithet. It is so typical of the obsessed, whether the political left or pro-circumcisionists to brand everyone who disagrees with them as part of a 'hate group.' How pitiful.