Yes, I brought it up. I’m the one who posted about Subway discriminating against Homeschoolers in a contest they are currently running. It bugged me and I decided to give it a little time. What I never expected was that this topic would spur the second biggest day ever on the OneMom blog (in relation to visitors and comments). The top visitor day is still back in November when I wrote about having the opportunity to sit down with and talk with my favorite Presidential Candidate, Mike Huckabee.

I do believe that Subway’s decision to specifically tell Homeschoolers they could not enter the contest is just the tip of the iceberg regarding growing sentiment against Homeschoolers and specifically against evangelical Christians. I stated that several times as this topic was bantered about the past few days, though a lot of people seemed to not be able to grasp that bigger point.

It was interesting to see how upset people were at Subway. How upset others were at the people who were upset. Comments pro and con came from homeschoolers and anti-homeschoolers, Christians and atheists. The chastisements and scorn directed my way were not all approved by me due to incredibly offensive language.

As important as all that may be, I find something else much more appalling. First, take a look at the numbers:

• In four days, I have written four posts on the Subway/Homeschool topic. Those posts have received over 1620 visitors and 48 comments or 12 comments average per post (well, 48 published comments … I have deleted at least 12).
• Since I started blogging in July 2007, I have written eight posts that specifically discuss the Born Alive Infant Protection Act (BAIPA) and received a total of 40 comments for those posts.
  
• I have also written another 52 posts about abortion …. about the right to life. Those posts have received about 170 comments or 3.27 comments average per post.
• So, the Subway/Homeschool issue received nearly four times the response rate as the posts about protecting the lives of the smallest among us.

Where is this kind of outrage about the likely Democratic Presidential nominee’s (Barack Obama) fight against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act? Where is the questioning about what is in the heart of this man …. a man who feels it is better to leave an infant born alive during an abortion procedure to be left on the shelf of a laundry room to die than to have to inconvenience the baby’s mother?

Think of it this way:

If you stopped to put one more bag of trash in your trash can the morning of trash pick-up day and when you opened the lid you saw a tiny baby there, struggling to breathe, yet alive. What would you do in that situation? Would you think “oh well, obviously someone didn’t want their baby and they left her here to die”, put the lid back on the trash can and leave for work?! I don’t think so! The vast number of U.S. Citizens would pick that babe up in their arms and run to get help, with the greatest sense of urgency and horror that someone could throw out a little person with the trash.

Michelle Obama cries out against the ban on partial birth abortion. Presidential candidate Barack Obama fought multiple times to prevent Illinois from passing a Born Alive Infant Protection Act on the grounds that it would be inconvenient for the mother. In his vision of how things should be, those babes born alive during an abortion procedure should receive no care and be left alone until they die.

So, I’ll ask it again … where is the outrage and questioning of what is really in the heart and mind of this man – Senator Obama – who wants to be President? Where is the shouting from the rooftops about this man’s very frightening stance on the issue of LIFE … or better stated about this man’s frightening stance AGAINST life).

My friends over at Cathlete, have a quote on their site from Mother Teresa that says it best:

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.” February 1994.

I found the Subway incident troubling and since this is a “web log” where I put my thoughts, I brought it up. But now I find myself more puzzled and more troubled at how much this topic stirred up people on every side, while a baby being left on a shelf to die is barely noticed.

Don’t leave the little one in a trash can…don’t be silent.

OneMom