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[lavendersparkle]

Another thing that gets me down at pro-life events is that they are dominated by conservative Catholics. I've nothing against conservative Catholics, but spending a whole evening as a minority of one is tiring. Sometimes I get the urge to just leave them to it and let pro-life soc become a subgroup of Fisher House where people can preach to the choir about the evils of contraception and gay adoption. Over dinner there was an animated discussion about This case of some grandparents who were refused custody because they were 'too old' and whose grandchildren were instead adopted by a gay couple. Now, I think that, if the details of the story are correct, it shows the great problem of social services not taking into account that keeping children within their extended family or with friends of their family, is usually better than adoption by strangers. This story would be just as much a travesty if the kids had been adopted by the Brady Bunch. However, my comrades in the cause of life concentrated on the gay aspect and the 'PC gone mad' aspect of allowing two men to adopt.

I know queer pro-lifers. I know people who were raised by queer parents. I want them in our pro-life soc tent. We're not going to change any minds if pro-life soc is the place you go to let off steam agreeing with the homophobic story you read in the Daily Mail. Why don't they just start a homophobic soc and let me get on with winning people around to pro-life feminism.

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[cathedral-life.livejournal.com]

But you continue to perpetuate your views anonymously, which is irritating and cowardly...

Also, whilst I'm not Jewish (I can't speak for Jewish people and wouldn't try), I've read numerous articles by Orthodox and other Jewish people that go into details about how to convert eg.

http://www.beingjewish.com/conversion/becomingjewish.html
http://judaism.about.com/od/conversion/f/conversion_how.htm

I know that disputes rage between different groups re. the validity of certain conversions, but I find the claim that one cannot convert or that, as you put it, one has to have "Jewish blood" to be odd. Can you back up your views with any further reading? What the "rules" which you refer to?