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During the League’s Face the Truth Tour yesterday in Evanston, Illinois, I took a few moments to offer a suggestion on how to respond when people object to this particular pro-life campaign. My assistant Matt shot this footage and edited the video.
When someone comes up and complains about having to see graphic abortion signs, my advice is to simply say, “I understand.” It’s a disarming reply, because people are expecting confrontation. Yes, the signs themselves are confrontational—they confront people with the horrible reality of abortion. But we needn’t be confrontational in how we talk to people about the signs.
People are right to be angry about seeing abortion signs, though their anger is often misdirected at us. When we show sympathy for that response, we can help to redirect those feelings and lead our fellow citizens to be angry not with us pro-lifers, but with the abortion regime.
Watch the video, too, for the reason that the sign I’m holding here has such personal significance for me.
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Thank you so much for all the work that you are doing on behalf of the innocents. I agree very much that we need to asist angry people with redirecting their anger to be directed towards the atrocity of abortion and not us. It is abortion that is wrong, not us. It is aboriton that needs to end and go away, not us. Until abortion is eradicated, we will not go away. Keep fighting the good fight. Let us pray that hearts be changed to seeing what abortion truly is, murder of the innocent and a terrible scourge on the soul of this nation. Let us pray and act to continue to spread truth and love wherever we live and wherever we go.
Posted June 18, 2010 at 12:32 pm
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Posted June 30, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Good Read!
Posted October 21, 2010 at 8:50 pm