What, no dogs to kick on your way to work today, Mark?
The press thinks it's just dandy that these people are riding bikes for gay rights. Anyone care to join me in playing poker to support traditional marriage? Flying kites to show solidarity with our troops? Darts for life, anyone? I swear I will NOT stop watching TV until we have a simplified tax code!
Stephen, you crack me up. You made your point very well!
I love darts, and I'm pro-life, so darts for life it is! It just might catch on.
Am I the only one scratching his head over the headline "Lesbian Grannies"?
Reminds me of the line in Hot Shots part 2 (a great flick) in which a character vows to be celibate, like his father was and his grandfather before him....
Stephen, you cracked me up too!
Maybe it's just that I'm so busy that my eyes are coming out on stalks, I'm and slipping into the pernicious practice of speed reading, but where was the part about having our right to deny that there has ever been a greater gift to the American body politic than the gay rights movement revoked by force if necessary? I'm also slipping into the pernicious practice of running sentences on so I'll stop now.
Pat
After doing a cross-country pro-life walk, I have to admit to a certain amount of respect for them - not for their message, but their methods. That sort of trip isn't nearly so easy as a poker or kite-flying.
Gotta love those Rainbow Orcs!
If that was to me, that wasn't what I said and I hope it's not what came across to you all.
Charles,
It was prophisied long ago that a tribe of Orc men who survived the Battle at Pelinor Fields and got lost in the retreat would one day come forth under a multicolored banner.
No, Jody, check the timestamp - he kicked the dog hours before writing this tripe.
And remember folks, no cause you believe in is worth putting forth an effort for unless future-Pope Mark Shea says so.
Must propose a federal law- The Ban On Calling Attention To Law. To outlaw any activity- crosscountry biking/running/rollerblading/etc.- designed to Call Attention To the participants' causes. Of the moment. Never advances the cause, only wastes broadcast time and newspaper space. One correspondent notes above about partcipation in some pro-life activity of this stripe. Sorry- falls within this juncture- no more. Usually performed by folks like the LesGrannies- foot soldiers in redhot social movements. Whom more cynical types have called Useful Idiots. Who must be saved from their own excesses. Blessed Mother Teresa never did anything to Call Attention To. In her view, all the media acclaim/Nobel Prizes/attraction by well-meaning types got in the way of pulling street people off the streets of Calcutta. The important work.
"And remember folks, no cause you believe in is worth putting forth an effort for unless future-Pope Mark Shea says so."
Better than having Big Brother Twins Andy and Jody decide...
Gerard - Yes, it was Calling Attention To ourselves. Very prominently, and very deliberately - the front of our shirts read "PRO LIFE" in huge letters, and we walked against the traffic so drivers could read them. Once we had people's attention, we'd explain who we were and what we were about. If nothing else, we reminded people that there was a pro-life movement, and that its members were not a bunch of fanatical misogynists (or whatever the stereotype is). There was no other mission, unlike in the case of Mother Teresa. And unlike the bikers, we didn't really get much media attention. What attention we got was mostly on the individual level.
As for being Useful Idiots - well, maybe. We weren't exactly very important to the overall pro-life movement. But did we really not "advance the cause?" There's at least one woman somewhere out West who, because we met her, got information on Rachel's Vineyard to give to her sister who was suffering from Post-Abortion Syndrome. And somewhere, perhaps there's a woman and her assaulter whom I will never forget and will always pray for - one night we heard a guy screaming at someone whom he was, apparently, sexually assaulting. We made some small difference, to others and to our own commitment to be pro-life - or so I like to think.
Ai!
Must have been a very slow day for the press. Gawd, what a boring article! Two lesbian grannies ride bikes, world media attends. What's next.... articles on drag queens watching the grass grow?
Wait a minute, wait a minute. *Lesbian grandmas?* In order to be a grandma, unless the definition has changed, it is required to have children, not to mention granchildren. Given the dc-only quality of lesbian sex, how is this possible??? Maybe they're only grandma-age?
Soooo, are these elective grandmas or elective lesbians? That's what I wonder.
"What's next.... articles on drag queens watching the grass grow?"
If they can make a series out of "Will and Grace", anything is possible... 
Oh I find you so called catholics so Taliban in your attitude to gays. What kites next?
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