I didn't make it to Friday night's Royals-Cardinals game, but I've been wondering about the fallout from the unofficially named "Right to Life night at the K."
A week and a half ago, I wrote about the objections of season-ticket holder Scott Hartley (who just happens to be Missouri state Sen. Jolie Justus' district aide) to an ad on the Royals' Web site urging fans to "come cheer on the Royals as they play the St. Louis Cardinals and support the Missouri Right to Life."
After the story appeared online for this "liberal Kansas City tabloid," the Royals removed the "Missouri Right to Life" link for tickets. That didn't sit well with Missouri Right to Life.
A story appearing on the Christian Web site Baptist Press on Friday said Missouri Right to Life felt like the Royals had discriminated against them by removing their link.
"I think we feel discriminated against," the story quotes Missouri
Right to Life's legislative liaison Susan Klein. "It seems like
pro-abortion people are controlling the Royals."
There's more. Missouri Right to Life bought 300 tickets to the game as part of a fundraiser. According to the Baptist Press story, Missouri Right to Life had sold 58 tickets through the Royals site's link before it was removed.
"We're a group of people trying to attend a ball game who happen to be pro-life," Klein said, according to the Press story.
Klein doesn't seem to grasp the point: There wasn't a disclaimer on the
Royals Web site saying the organization doesn't necessarily support the views of
the group it was hosting. She also doesn't see how a divisive issue like abortion could be distracting to people who just want to enjoy a ball game -- especially in the wake of the assassination of an abortion provider.
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How unnecessary of the Royals. Who talked them into this dumb move?
The pro-life people support crisis pregnancy centers and adoption centers entirely on donations (no public money). They work hard together in the face of withering and unjust sarcasm and criticism and they'd like to go see a baseball game together and probably raise a little more money while they're at it? A more joyful and family-oriented group of people you cannot meet.
This has zip to do with Tiller.
A madman shot him, an angry crazy man who latched onto "pro-life" as an outlet for his anger (news reports say that he used to be just as angry and nuts on the subject of One World Currency, but his ex-wife says he got distracted). Tiller wasn't murdered (and murder it surely was) by a lady who prays the rosary quietly on public property outside a killing clinic and each month buys cartons of diapers and formula for the crisis pregnancy center in her neighborhood.
"I think we feel discriminated against," the story quotes Missouri Right to Life's legislative liaison Susan Klein.
Gee, Susan - just imagine how discriminated against you'd be feeling if someone had shot one of you, or bombed your office or home.
When I asked for an example of a pro-choicer shooting or bombing a pro-lifer on one of the Star's comment boards last week, someone responded with a Youtube video of a pro-life picketer being pushed down and having their sign taken away.
They really see the two situations as equal.
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