Bishop Fulton Sheen once pointed out that the reasons people give for their opposition to something sometimes don’t match up to why they’re really opposed. He told the story of giving instruction in the Catholic faith to a young woman who became violently upset when he started telling her about confession. She ranted that she would never join the Church because of its position on confession. Sheen looked at her and told her that the violence of her objection in no way correlated to what he had said about confession and asked if she had had an abortion. She hung her head and admitted that she had.
I was reminded of this story when I read about the Supreme Court refusing to hear the case of abortion rights groups petitioning to disallow states from issuing Choose Life license plates. On the face of it, the abortion rights cadre didn’t like the idea that the state legislature decided who would get the money made off the plates. That didn’t make sense, so I looked at the article more closely.
"About a dozen states allow drivers to pay extra for the specialty car tags to show the car owner’s opposition to abortion.
"Justices said they would not look at tag laws in Louisiana and Tennessee.
"Abortion opponents contend they have a free-speech right to broadcast their own views on their car tags. Proposals to offer car owners an alternative ‘Choose Choice’ plate failed in both state Legislatures."
Ah, now there we have it. If pro-abortionists cannot ram their "Choose Choice" plates through the state legislatures then they’ll make sure that pro-lifers cannot display their adherence to life on their license plates either. I’d say that such an attitude is childish, but in this context that would be obscene.
