Whoopi Goldberg, while engaged in a recent debate with her
co-hosts on the “View,” compared a woman’s right to get an abortion to a
Christian’s right to celebrate Christmas. While opining on separation between church and state, in
regards to the permissability of public Nativity scenes in the celebration of
Christmas, Goldberg said that it is “the same conversation with a woman’s right
to choose.”
She
added, “What I do with my body is my right. It is not your right to tell me.
The same thing is it’s—if you believe in Christmas, it’s not my right…and, you
know, kids who didn’t go to Catholic school had Christmas and they-- we never
knew what their religions were, but we hung ‘cause it was Christmas holiday.”
On one
level, I appreciate her apparent attempt to defend public displays observing
Christmas. But it is a breathtakingly bad- indeed heinous- analogy. As a writer
I am tempted to find/use an analogy to make a point about her analogy, but, in
this case, it is impossible to do so.
The
utter lack of logic and reason beggars description. The cumbersome and
insensitive attempt at comparing people’s right to celebrate the birth of our Savior, who was later
sacrificed so all of us could have the opportunity for eternal life, to a woman’s “right” to abort her baby literally boggles the mind.
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