Inaction worse than showing abortion photos

People need to see what a child looks like after he or she has been in the hands of an abortionist at a Planned Parenthood clinic. Without pictures, words which describe what they do to the preborn (sic) lack punch and are easily forgotten.

After 32 years of legal baby-murder, it is time for the American people to see who is dying. The media has censored the preborn (sic) child from the "abortion debate," and we are simply attempting to bypass that media blackout by going to the streets and showing the American people for themselves exactly what a preborn (sic) child murdered by abortion looks like.

We show these photos to inform our nation that it has violated God's law and to call its people to repentance. Our photos stand as a haunting indictment upon our nation.

Some say our photos are disgusting and hurt our Christian witness. Our response: have you ever seen a pretty picture of a murder? Murder is disgusting, abortion is murder: therefore, our pictures are disgusting.

Also, what hurts our Christian witness more: being silent while our neighbor is unjustly killed or exposing the evil works of darkness (Ephesians 5:11) by showing the atrocities being committed against our neighbor? We think the former.

What a pathetic people we are if we want to tolerate the oppression of an entire people group, but then become outraged when someone displays the suffering of that people group. May people be moved with compassion for the helpless preborn (sic) when they see these photographs and act to see this bloodshed outlawed.

Otherwise, God will use His sword of justice and bring retribution upon a nation of people whose hands are covered with blood.

Pastor Matt Trewhella

Founder, Missionaries to the Preborn

www.missionariestopreborn.com

‘More than Metro’ good, but lesbians missing

We are writing in response to your recent “Post Magazine” special on “More than Metro: What does it mean to be queer in 2005.”

While it was great to see “gay” issues and people take center stage in our university paper, as lesbian women, it was also a bit disrespectful to see how your paper mainly focused on gay males.

As lesbians we know that there are other lesbians on-campus who might have felt like we felt — glad to see some representation of a community that we are affiliated with, but then sad and upset to see that we were not really an important or noteworthy part of this community, again.

Saying “gay” does not mean the same as saying “gays and lesbians” nor does saying “queer” or “LGBT.” Especially when all of the articles and experiences shared were focused on gay males and one or two bisexual females. Your recent Post section is yet another example of the (intentional or not) invisibility of lesbians and lesbian issues and concerns.

Lesbians are not the same as gay males, not the same as bisexual females, and even though it is the PC thing to say, saying “LGBT” has the effect of backfiring when clearly all that are represented are the G’s the B’s and T’s.

Where are the lesbians? Who are the lesbians? What is it mean to be a lesbian at UWM — or are we lost in the “LGBT” label?

We would be happy to help you out in your quest to represent and inform readers on the lesbian experience. For more information on lesbians and on lesbian issues, we suggest you contact the Lesbian Alliance of Metro Milwaukee at www.lesbianalliance.org.

This organization has been around for decades working on lesbian issues such as visibility, lesbian health and lesbian issues in the workplace, as well as providing social and cultural events for the local lesbian community.

Jenny Curtis Durnall and Georgiann Davis

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