Has anyone seen this Family Foundation flyer?
From the Family Foundation's Facebook page
Note from Dan: This email came in Tuesday. I asked the sender for a copy of the flyer — he said it so disturbed him that he threw it away Monday. I don’t want to render any judgments on it until I’ve seen it. Has anybody? If so, scan it and send it to me.
I live in the 8th House District, am pro-life, and believe that political discourse should be genuine, polite, and reasonable. Yesterday I received a mailing that greatly disappointed me – especially since it was sent from what is theoretically “my side” of the political spectrum.
A group known as The Family Foundation (I know nothing about them) sent a flier – I assume to all citizens in the 8th HOD – praising our two state elected officers for their pro-life votes. Those two officials are Greg Habeeb and Ralph Smith. Regardless of how much I agree or disagree with Habeeb and Smith on issues in general, I am thankful that they are pro-life. However, this mailing disgusted me. It was not genuine – as the pictures it used attempted to portray falsely pro-choice advocates as lawless. It was not polite – as it attempted to demonize the “other side.” It was not reasonable – as it did nothing to further a thoughtful dialogue but instead fanned flames of discord.
I assume that neither Habeeb nor Smith authorized this mailing. It looked like something that truly came from a third party with our local officials names simply stamped on it. (I assume that other districts in the state received the same mailing.) However, if I was in either of their shoes, I would be highly upset for including my name on something like this as though I had asked for it to be mailed on my behalf.
I wish 3rd party groups on both sides – like this so-called Family Foundation – would work to build genuine, polite, and reasonable discussion and debate. Maybe that’s too much to hope for.
Albert
March 28, 2012 - 6:00 AM
Regardless of what the flyer actually says, Albert’s skepticism is commendable. He sees advocates on the other side as real, three-dimensional human beings worthy of courteous consideration. If more people could hold fast to those principles in the coming campaign season, perhaps the super PACs won’t be as divisive a force as we fear. Albert: you’re a good dude.
Hello, is this thing on? … Albert has apparently not gotten the memo, right wingers are not interested in “work to build genuine, polite, and reasonable discussion and debate”. They believe they have the winning hand and will play it to their own Waterloo with hate filled vitriol all the way to the grave. They are about to find that even the end times “sign” of a black man in the White House is not enough to make the whole nation drink their koolaide.
Rignt. The first thing a pro-life conservative would do is send an email to a radical far-left blog complaining about a pro-life mailing. I’m very suspect when I see the following template:
“I’m a conservative, BUT ______________ (fill in complaint about conservatives)”
“the pictures it used attempted to portray falsely pro-choice advocates as lawless.”
Kinda like when Dan used pictures of Republican women that made them look stupid in order to demonize them. It’s a journalism thing.
#4 Kind of like when terps tried to tell us that Roanoke “Occupiers” were defecating in and trashing Elmwood and driving families away.
The Family Foundation:
Founded in 1985, the Family Foundation moved headquarters from Northern Virginia to Richmond in 1997. Affiliated with Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, but funded entirely by donations, the Family Foundation is most well-known for its stance against abortion and same-sex marriage. http://www.has.vcu.edu/soc/rdr/Culture.groups/FamilyFoundation.html
This is a link to what “Accomplishments” Family Foundation touts:
http://familyfoundation.org/about/victories/
If a group uses “Family” in its title is inevitably awful. Throw in “American” and it gets worse.
“I’m very suspect“, yes, I tend to agree, you are.