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I got this from the mail yesterday from the Thomas More Pro Life Law Services organization from Illinois as a campaign to raise funds for the ND88, a group of 88 people who were arrested in University of Notre Dame on the day President Barack Obama was given an honorary degree by the president of the university Fr. Jenkins. They were protesting against abortion.

Here’s how the letter starts:

“As you know, last year America’s leading lukewarm Catholic University – Notre Dame- honored the most pro-abortion president in the history of America….a president who won’t even lift a finger to protect a crying baby who struggles to breathe after surviving an abortion. That’s right. Barack Obama has consistently opposed efforts to protect babies born alive and breathing after an abortion attempt! Yes, it’s fair to say that Obama even supports infanticide!!! Of course, Obama also supports the hideous and gruesome partial-birth abortion procedure.”

I could not bear to read the whole letter the first time because of all the nastiness in the letter towards the LGBT community.

“Fr. Jenkins rolls out the red carpet for “gays” on campus! Believe it or not, just five months after the scandalous Obama appearance, University of Notre Dame paid for five of its “gay” students to attend a homosexual march in Washington, D.C., for “gay marriage”.

Apparently, the sender of this letter also does not like the Vagina Monologues, or as their letter stated “V-Monologues”.

“Fr. Jenkins claims that a Catholic Universtiy should be open to practically all viewpoints. (That’s how he justified giving the green light to the crude play “V-Monologues”, which favorably describes lesbianism, group self-abuse, and the lesbian seduction of a teenage girl).”

My thought was this: “do they really know what the Vagina Monologues promote?” Here is what the Vagina Monologues is all about according to their website:

“The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. In this stunning phenomenon that has swept the nation, Eve Ensler gives us real women’s stories of intimacy, vulnerability, and sexual self-discovery…It has inspired a dynamic grassroots movement –V-Day– to stop violence against women.” —-The Vagina Monologues

The Vagina Monologues inspired the creation of the grassroots movement called “V-Day” , which according to the movement’s website,

“is a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sex slavery”. — V-day.org

So, by criticizing this play, the sender of this letter is opposing any kind of promotion for the awareness to stop violence against women. That does not sound right.

The last few paragraphs of the letter made me laugh, even if it this letter was not written to be laughed at. After all the anti-gay language the person used, the sender is asking for money to help fund their cause. I could not help but laugh in my head about this letter because after being bashed on for 3-4 paragraphs in the letter for being a member of the LGBT community, here is this letter asking me for money to fund their cause.

In summary:

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This letter promotes a good cause, but the way it was delivered was not so good. There was a lot of nastiness in the letter. It could have been promoted in a better and a nicer way than the way it was written. So, when a cause is promoted, is it worth bashing a group of people like the LGBT community in this case?