{"id":91175,"date":"2015-01-23T10:37:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T17:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=91175"},"modified":"2015-01-23T10:37:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T17:37:30","slug":"pro-life-the-more-the-merrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/01\/pro-life-the-more-the-merrier.html","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life: The More, the Merrier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Recently somebody wrote to ask what I think of gays and atheists participating in prolife rallies. \u00a0They disapproved.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m surprised this is an issue with anybody, but\u00a0here\u2019s the deal: When your house is burning down and a crowd of neighbors comes to help put out the fire, you don\u2019t do an ID check or ask if they are heterosexual enough to throw a bucket of water. No quiz on adherence to the Creed is necessary. Muslim hands can point a hose and squirt. Atheists can work a bucket brigade as well as Catholics or Evangelicals. \u00a0Jews, pagans, and disco fans, all welcome. \u00a0We can sort out our differences after the fire is out.<\/p>\n

Besides, pro-life atheists can be pretty funny. A friend marched here in Washington and the secular prolifers had a sign reading, \u201cFor the Embryology Textbook Told Me So.\u201d It\u2019s helpful to have atheists out there reminding pro-aborts that the science is all on our side and it is they, not Christians, who perpetually descend into mystical bafflegab about when ensoulment occurs, and where the bright line between between mere tissue and personhood lies.<\/p>\n

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Recently somebody wrote to ask what I think of gays and atheists participating in prolife rallies. \u00a0They disapproved. I\u2019m surprised this is an issue with anybody, but\u00a0here\u2019s the deal: When your house is burning down and a crowd of neighbors comes to help put out the fire, you don\u2019t do an ID check or ask […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[674,650],"class_list":["post-91175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-first-things-first","tag-na"],"yoast_head":"\nPro-life: The More, the Merrier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Recently somebody wrote to ask what I think of gays and atheists participating in prolife rallies. \u00a0They disapproved. 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