The Catholic politician who was

The Catholic politician who was personally against abortion, but felt she could not impose her values upon everyone else, said to them, “Then what shalt I do with this blob of tissue which is called a foetus?” They all said, “Let it be aborted.” And the politician said, “Why, what evil has it done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let it be aborted!”
So then the politician saw that she was gaining nothing, but rather that a judicial riot was beginning, she took the microphone and washed her hands before the crowd…

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  2. Because it could apply equally to either of Maine’s U.S. Senators, both of whom are female Republicans, one of whom is Catholic, and both of whom are pro-abortion “based on the wishes of their constituents”.
    Being a lifelong Mainer and knowing the general culture of the state pretty well, my gut tells me that they are not following the wishes of most of their constituents, just those of a very vocal minority.

  4. Sad to say, the current crop of women Senators is predominantly pro-abortion.
    generally for abortion:
    Mikulski (MD)
    Feinstein (CA)
    Boxer (CA)
    Murray (WA)
    Cantwell (WA)
    Collins (ME)
    Clinton (NY)
    Stabenow (MI)
    Lincoln (AR)
    Snowe (ME)
    Landrieu (LA)
    Murkowski (AK)
    generally for the unborn:
    Dole (NC)
    Hutchison (TX)
    A page about Catholic politicians’ voting records is on the net.

  6. No, pro-abortion women. And most pro-abort senators are still men, so using “she” was still sexist!

  7. For the record, Anonymous, Pete’s piece doesn’t talk about “senators” but politicians in general. Chris is the one who brought the senators into this thread.
    Do you think you could go a little more deeply into the logic connecting your premises and your conclusion? You haven’t really provided a clear argument yet, and repeating your accusation is not the same as proving it.

  8. Okay,
    Pete was referring to the pro-abortion modern Pontius (Pontia?) Pilate as she. The custom in our language is to use “he” as the generic pronoun. I would guess Pete wouldn’t be into PC pronoun-gender-nazi garbage, so I conclude that he is unfairly targetting the female of the political species as being pro-abortion.

  9. Yes, but since this is intended as satire, perhaps I used “she” not to appear sexist. After all, since the generic politician was singular, why should we simply assume that it must be a male politician?

  10. “The custom in our language is to use “he” as the generic pronoun”
    Are we going to have to send you back to the re-education cam- I mean University? Where have you been the past ten years – “he” is mysogynosi . . mysoginst . . oh, sexist, and the precursor of all that is evil with the world. “She” is now the proper generic pronoun – get with it, man!!. . . er, woman.

  11. Yah, but Pete hasn’t been reeducated, at least not according to any feminist standards I know. Therefore his use of “she” wasn’t properly generic and meant “she as in she” not “she as in he or she”.

  13. Oh, by the way, trivia question: what Christian author claimed to have coined the word “sexism”?

  14. Oh, by the way, trivia question: what Christian author claimed to have coined the word “sexism”?
    I give up. Please tell me.

  16. If you wanted to cover all the grammatical genders (male, female, neuter), you could use them all in one contraction — but then people would know you’re full of “s/h/it.”

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