Judge Easterbrook's passion

Lorraine Bailey's reported at Courthouse News Service that the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Hears Dispute Over High School’s Live Nativity. Before the court was an appeal by The Freedom From Religion Foundation and the ACLU of Indiana from a decision by a U.S. District Court that an Indiana public high school's annual "Christmas Spectacular" had been unconstitutional (too close to the establishment of religion) in 2014 but any such problems were eliminated by changes to the 2015 performance.

"At oral arguments before the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday, ACLU attorney Gavin M. Rose told the court, 'The school does not attempt to defend [the 2014] version of the performance, nor could it.'

"But he argued that the 2015 changes are 'cosmetic at best,' as the performance still requires students to prepare for and perform 24 minutes worth of religious material.

"Judge Frank Easterbrook told Rose it sounded like he was asking the court to edit a play.

"'I have a lot of trouble with an argument asking us to be a censor,' Easterbrook said. 'You’re asking me to be a censor.'

"Easterbrook added, 'As much as I admire Cato the Elder, that’s not what I’m sure an Article III judge is,' referring to the Roman senator also known as Cato the Censor for his efforts to censor the influence of Hellenic culture in Rome."

Referring to that Article of the U.S. Constitution regarding the federal judiciary.

After the school made its arguments, the appellants have a chance to respond.

"On rebuttal, Judge Easterbrook again pressed Rose how strict of a line the ACLU sought to draw on the performance of religious art in a public high school.

"'What about a performance of Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion?' he asked Rose.

"Rose replied, 'I have to admit, your Honor, I am not familiar with the piece.'

"Easterbrook looked truly appalled at the response.

"'Oh dear, that is a problem,' he said. 'Well let me just tell you, that during the St. Matthew’s Passion a character called the Evangelist reads the text of the Gospel of St. Matthew, and then there are lots of other religious figures.

"'It’s one of the most venerated pieces in the history of music,' Easterbrook continued. 'Not being familiar with it is hard for me to understand.'

"Rose apologized for his lack of musical knowledge, but went ahead and suggested that perhaps Bach’s sacred oratorio would also raise Establishment Clause concerns."

Here's a performance, Karl Richter conducting, at YouTube.

Fanatic Friday: Atheists Ain't Got No Songs Edition

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Atheists force Minnesota town to pull Nativity scene: residents’ response is epic

WADENA, Minnesota, December 16, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – After an atheist group forced one Minnesota city to take down its Nativity scene, residents took matters into their own hands, blanketing the town with nativity scenes in response...hundreds of them.

Wadena officials were forced to take down a Christmas display by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), which threatened to sue the city. After forty years of displaying the Nativity scene, Wadena officials sold the figures to the Wadena Ministerial Association for $25, who displayed it on private property.

The Catholic League's Bill Donohue commented, "It is entirely legal to put a manger scene on public property, as long as it is privately paid for and it is a public forum, i.e., an area that is open to art displays, concerts, rallies, and the like."

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Madison's 'atheist church' - Uh, Lord of the World much?

“We are a godless congregation. An atheist church, if you will.”

With those words, Eric Snyder welcomed people to the April service of “Sunday Assembly Madison.”

You may recall hearing about the effort last fall when the group launched. It is a local chapter of an international movement to create church-like experiences for people who do not believe in a higher being.

The goal is to replicate, in a secular way, certain aspects of religion — the sense of belonging, the social supports, the uplifting music, the charitable deeds — while leaving out the heaven and hell part.

Read more: http://host.madison.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/religion/in-the-spirit-checking-back-in-with-madison-s-atheist/article_f1a4a54f-f036-5c27-8bee-0b6f4dbe270c.html#ixzz3Zpwk9tUQ

.... I mean seriously.... this could be a chapter of Lord Benson's best.  Pope Francis even mentioned the book recently, calling it "prophetic."  The creepiest part of the book is the human "desire" for liturgy without God, or a liturgy worshiping humanity itself.  Quite frankly they would attract more atheists if the service was taken seriously:

A three-person band led a singalong of “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.”

Paganism is more attractive because it contains beauty.  If atheists accepted beauty(other than a utility to procreate), they could create something that really appealed to the human condition in a twisted kind of way.

Tax-free clergy housing safe, federal court rules, dismissing atheists' complaint

via Alliance

via Deseret News:

Thousands of possibly anxious ministers can sleep a bit easier tonight: a federal appeals court panel has tossed a lawsuit challenging a cherished clergy tax break.

While churches have been able to provide tax-free housing to clergy since the beginnings of the federal income tax 100 years ago, it was only in 1954 that Congress enacted a law granting tax exemption for a “parsonage exemption,” where clergy could allocate part of their salary for either mortgage or rent payments and not pay taxes on that income.

[...]

Attorney Erik Stanley of the Alliance Defending Freedom said of the housing grant, “The allowance many churches provide to pastors is church money, not government money. It is constitutional and should continue to be respected and protected.”

This was another one of Barbara Crabb's ruling, in case you were wondering about her comprehension of law.

Ronald Reagan's son films TV ad for Freedom From Religion Foundation

Ron Reagan, 56, a son of the late Republican President Ronald Reagan, continues to starkly differentiate his views from those of his famous father.

The younger Reagan, an outspoken political liberal, has taped a television commercial for the Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation.

"I'm Ron Reagan, an unabashed atheist, and I'm alarmed by the intrusions of religion into our secular government," he says in the 30-second ad. "That's why I'm asking you to support the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the nation's largest and most effective association of atheists and agnostics, working to keep state and church separate, just like our founding fathers intended."

At the end of the ad, Reagan says he's a "lifelong" atheist who is "not afraid of burning in hell."

The ad aired May 22 during Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," both on Comedy Central.

Read more: http://host.madison.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/religion/in-the-spirit-ron-reagan-films-tv-ad-for-freedom/article_4d6dc70a-2bd7-5dd7-bd89-8e9e2b77a619.html#ixzz33D3h4INe

Although it is logically impossible for a First Cause not to exist, the Divine Faith we have received is a gift.  Let's pray others might receive this gift.

Scott Walker Says He Won’t Cave to Atheists’ Demand to Pull Bible Verse

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker ® will not comply with an atheist group’s request that he remove a Bible verse from his official Facebook and Twitter accounts, his spokeswoman told TheBlaze.

“Governor Walker will not remove the post on his social media,” Walker spokeswoman press secretary Laurel Patrick said in an email. “The verse was part of a devotional he read that morning, which inspired him, and he chose to share it.”

Patrick said Walker’s social media accounts are frequently used “to engage with Wisconsinites on matters of public policy” as well as to give constituents “a sense of who he is.”

She said the scripture reference he posted on March 16 was simply “a reflection of his thoughts for the day.”

Walker’s response came after the Freedom From Religion Foundation wrote him a letter this week asking that he delete the message, which read simply, “Philippians 4:13,” from his official Facebook and Twitter accounts.

The popular New Testament Bible verse reads, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

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Philippians 4:13
— Governor Walker (@GovWalker) March 16, 2014

And the 2013 Ebenezer Award Goes to… the Wisconsin Department of Administration

Washington, D.C. – The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is pleased (well, sort of) to announce the recipient of our lowest honor, the 2013 Ebenezer Award, which is given annually to the most ridiculous affront to Christmas or Hanukkah celebrations.

This year the award goes to Wisconsin’s Department of Administration, which apparently doesn’t know that it is constitutionally permissible for the government to have a tasteful holiday display celebrating various aspects of the Christmas season. So instead, the Department of Administration invited anyone and everyone to display anything they want.

The result? Wisconsin citizens are now being greeted by a display of the “Flying Spaghetti Monster” in their State Capitol. The sign depicts a dripping wet clump of boiled spaghetti with two strategically placed meatballs, and this message: “He boiled for your sins. Be touched by his noodly appendage before it is too late.” The creators of the display say it is a protest against any government recognition of the religious roots of the Christmas season.

Now, don’t get us wrong. We’re all for free speech. We think everyone should be allowed to speak their mind when the government opens up a forum for speech.

The problem here is that government bureaucrats have forgotten that there is a difference between government speech and private speech. The government is allowed to speak in its own voice and communicate its own message. When it recognizes important aspects of human history or culture, it is not required to include every possible competing message. The postal service can issue a stamp honoring Martin Luther King Jr. without also honoring the Ku Klux Klan. Congress can celebrate Veterans’ Day without also celebrating Pacifists’ Day. And Wisconsin can recognize Christmas and Hanukkah without also recognizing the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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WI federal judge rules clergy tax-free housing exemption is unconstitutional

FFRF: Tax this guy

via Alliance Alert

My Christian Daily: U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb ruled on Friday (Nov. 22) in favor of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, saying the exemption violates the establishment clause because it “provides a benefit to religious persons and no one else, even though doing so is not necessary to alleviate a special burden on religious exercise.”

Opinion: Freedom from Religion Foundation v. Lew

Religion Clause Blog: Court Holds That Tax Code’s Parsonage Allowance Violates Establishment Clause

Eugene Volokh at the Volokh Conspiracy: Tax Exemption for Ministers’ Housing Expenses Violates the Establishment Clause

Freedom from Religion press release  

We should start taxing the Missionaries of Charity too.  

FFRF again erects irreverent Nativity scene in Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda

For the second year in a row, atheists in Wisconsin have set up their own version of the traditional Christian creche in the Capitol Rotunda.

Like typical depictions of the Christian Nativity scene, the “natural nativity scene” displays a small child in a manger surrounded by wisemen. However, this display proclaims “the reason for the season” is the Winter Solstice and the wisemen are not strictly men — Emma Goldman, the goddess Venus and the Statue of Liberty stand beside Charlies Darwin, Albert Einstein and Thomas Jefferson. The baby Jesus has been replaced with a baby girl.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation set up the atheist creche last year after the conservative group Wisconsin Family Action placed a Nativity scene in the Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda for the first time.

“We nonbelievers don’t mind sharing the season with Christians, but we think there should be some acknowledgment that the Christians really ‘stole’ the trimmings of Christmas, and the sun-god myths, from pagans,” FFRF co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor said in a statement.

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In a certain sense, the Church did "steal" the idea from the pagans, as Christians have "baptized" many pagan practices to assist people in believing in Truth.  Christ was not born on December 25, but that doesn't mean He is not the Light of the World.  My question is that if atheism is so great, why can't they come up with their own holidays?  This tiny little word has no palette or paint.  They do not "pro-create."  Like Melkor in the Simarillion, they want the world to themselves, but wouldn't know what to do with it if they had it. 

Milwaukee area school drops cross from football helmets after one parent complains

It took the complaint of just one parent to induce the school district of Shorewood, a suburb of Milwaukee, to drop a new student-designed logo from the high school football team's helmets. The reason: The logo included a cross, along with a bishop's hat (similar to the design on the traditional chess piece). The district's superintendent, Martin Lexmond, no doubt feared that the religious symbols, particularly the cross, might raise the ire of the ACLU, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, or some other secular group which have used the First Amendment's supposed “separation of church and state” clause to intimidate schools and municipalities into removing all signs of religious faith from public facilities.

“It just didn't occur to anybody that there might be questions about it,” Lexmond told Fox News. “A parent last week raised the question, asking if this was a violation of separation of church and state.” That, apparently, was enough to convince Lexmond and the school board to banish the logo. “It's clearly a Christian cross,” echoed school board member Michael Mishlove to a local Mequon newspaper. “I think it's inappropriate to have on a uniform or any sort of school-authorized clothing, as I think it could be viewed as an endorsement.”

Because Shorewood high school is too small to field a football team on its own, it has partnered since 2000 with Messmer Catholic High School in Milwaukee. The new logo — which combined Shorewood's mascot, a greyhound, and Messmer's uniquely Christian symbols — was designed several months ago by a Shorewood student and added to the team's helmets in August, just in time for the fall high school football season.

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Awesome logo!  To bad tolerance nazis got to it.

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Laetificat: Capitol Rosary Rally featured in Wis. State Journal

The Wisconsin State Journal ran two articles by religion reporter Doug Erickson in yesterday’s Sunday edition, one on the Capitol Rosary Rally and one on Bishop Morlino’s defense of Paul Ryan as someone with a faithful understanding of Catholic social teaching. I was interviewed August 29th and my photo accompanies the Paul Ryan article in the print version. Doug Erickson approached me (and a few others) asking about Paul Ryan, and I said the rosary rally is not political and I will not talk about Ryan in connection with that, he said he was just looking for local Catholics, I agreed and we spoke off to the side. I’m quoted briefly in the article on Paul Ryan, for which Erickson also interviewed Bishop Morlino, and I’m happy to see Bishop Morlino’s teaching in the paper.

The Paul Ryan article is titled “Madison diocese defends Ryan’s faith” in the print version, and “Catholics find fault and blessing with Ryan’s politics” in the online version. The Rosary Rally article appears under the headline “Organizers say events not meant to be partisan” in the print version; online it is titled “‘Rosary rallies’ at Capitol thinly disguised GOP pep fests, critics say”. My impression of the articles was not very positive, especially under their online titles (the titles are not written by the reporter). But other rosary rally participants I’ve spoken with all basically liked the articles, or thought “they could have been much worse.” The consensus seemed to be they are fair and honest articles.

continue at Laetificat Madison

Very good read.  The only major locally owned paper in this state is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel(to my knowledge) so many times they have to "sell" a story more than just report on it.  I don't think that's anything new to American journalism though.  And obviously just being locally owned doesn't mean that the paper is necessarily fair(but JS did endorse Walker). 

FFRF now after Mexican Fiesta in Milwaukee to cease Catholic Mass

An atheist group is complaining that Mexican Fiesta's discounted admission for attending its Sunday Mass on the Summerfest grounds violates laws barring discrimination based on religious affiliation.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Madison-based organization, says it will file a bias allegation with the state if Mexican Fiesta declines to alter its policy.

But the festival's president says that no one is required to attend Sunday's 10:15 a.m. Mass to get the $5 discounted admission ($13 is the price at the gates, which open at noon).

"Our policy has always been that patrons may enter the grounds and, if they wish, wait until the gates are open to Mexican Fiesta," Antonio Guajardo wrote to Patrick Elliott, an attorney with the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

"As victims of ongoing discrimination throughout the United States, Mexican Americans are acutely sensitive to issues of this nature and would not consider discriminating against others for any reason," Guajardo wrote in a letter released by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Elliott said the Mexican Fiesta response did not satisfy the group, because people who want the discount but don't want to go to a Catholic Mass have to wait around for an hour and a half for the gates to open.

The group's threat of a legal challenge drew this response from the official who will lead the Mass at the Marcus Amphitheater on the festival grounds.

"We lovingly invite the atheists to attend the Mass and experience the profound love of God," said Milwaukee Archdiocese Auxiliary Bishop Donald J. Hying. "If we all lived in the radiant love of Christ, these fights would cease."

It makes me think of Tolkien when you realize that this group cannot build up anything of their own, only tear down the beauty that has been created.  

I thought JS did a good job with this.  The statement at the end of this article is perfect.

The foundation says it has 1,400 members in Wisconsin and 19,000 nationally.

So the millions of Mexicans and Irish in Wisconsin apparently need to take their dirty peasant cultural faith and purify it with the help of our Committee of Public Safety.

Milwaukee Irish Fest caves to Freedom From Religion Foundation, ends free admission promo for Mass-goers

You would think this is from the Onion, but no... Madison, Wis., strikes again.

Freedom From Religion Foundation: 

Irish Fest organizers in Milwaukee announced today that they are dropping a promotion that violated civil rights laws by rewarding Mass attendance, in response to a complaint from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Irish Fest will now offer everyone who drops off a food donation by 11 a.m. free admittance.

Freedom From Religion Foundation Staff Attorney Patrick Elliott is pleased with the resolution: "We have been going back and worth with Irish Fest officials for the past two years to stop their discriminatory Catholic mass discount [laugh or cry?]. It wasn't until we had local members weigh-in that we seemed to make some progress."

FFRF asked its Wisconsin members on Tuesday to stand up for their rights as local citizens and taxpayers. Not only was the festival excluding nonreligious Wisconsinites, but citizens who practice a religion other than Catholicism.                                                                                                        
"We received many strong testimonials from our secular members. Some identified as Irish folk who have been attending the event for years, but do not subscribe to the Catholic faith — or any faith for that matter — and felt ostracized [OSTRACIZED! THE HORROR!] by festival officials," said Elliott.

Althouse: The atheist creche in the Wisconsin Capitol rotunda...

Althouse

... the Winter Solstice is a religious holiday... 

I really need to create a liturgical calendar for these guys.

Ah, Althouse also posted 10 things wrong with the atheist nativity scene.

Legal challenge to national prayer day overturned

A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned last year's ruling that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional, saying the organization that brought the lawsuit did not have legal standing to do so.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered that the lawsuit by Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation be dismissed.

In writing for the majority, Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook said it takes an invasion of one's own rights to create standing. He said the annual proclamation only encourages prayer and no one can be injured when a request can be denied.

In a 13-page decision, Easterbrook said that in marking the day each year, the president was making a request for prayer, not a command.

"No one is injured by a request that can be declined," he said.

The Washington-based American Center for Law and Justice, which had filed an amicus brief supporting the government's case, applauded the decision as a "victory for our nation's heritage and history."

The rest at JSOnline 

Prayer.  Harming atheists for billions of years. - FFRF

Homicidal Maniac back in the news

Poor children, bad for Wisconsin

A Madison woman who helps low-income women afford abortions[instead of baby formula] said an August profile of her in the State Journal led to thousands of dollars in donations, while an anti-abortion organization said the article resulted in new financial support for its efforts, too.

Anne Nicol Gaylor, 83, administers the Women's Medical Fund from her dining room table. At the time of the Aug. 22 article, the fund had helped pay for 18,986 abortions in 34 years. [Homicidal Maniac]

Gaylor said she received no hate mail after the article ran.  [Shocking that was even reported] However, an attorney working on her behalf sent "cease and desist" letters to two Catholicism-related websites and to a blogger affiliated with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for comments about Gaylor considered inflammatory and "actionable," said Gaylor's daughter, Annie Laurie Gaylor. [Although I was mentioned on Jill Stanek's blog and McIlheran JSOnline blog, I did not receive any threats from lawyers(someone asked).]

Two days after the article ran, Anne Nicol Gaylor said she received a $10,000 check from someone who previously had not been a donor and who referenced the article as motivation for the donation. In the last six weeks, the fund has taken in about $50,000, which includes money generated from a fundraising letter, she said.  [*yawn* Gee wiz, I bet that wasn't planned] 

Pro-Life Wisconsin saw an increase in donations for its billboard campaign in Milwaukee that promotes help for women and men in crisis pregnancies, said the organization's state director, Peggy Hamill, whose opposition to the fund was included in the article.

Although anti-abortion activists were aware of the fund, the article solidified opposition to it and expanded people's commitment to making sure alternatives are available, Hamill said.

Madison State Journal

Obviously a piece planned prior to the original Gaylor article, so as to predictably "prove" that pro-life activism is self defeating.  Ms. Gaylor is still a homicidal maniac(but we can still pray for her) and the way she oppresses the poor is a terrifying reality.  Gaylor in the original article admitted essentially to being a eugenicist (like Margaret Sangar) and hopes to eliminate undesirable types of people(the poor) from society - so the well to do may continue to live in luxury. 

More on aborting poor babies

From the blog Right On by JSOnline's Patrick McIlheran

Gaylor, the paper goes on to detail in inexorably unfolding horror, founded the fund whose sole purpose is to pay for abortions. Last year alone, it paid out $162,000 or so, three-fourths of it from individual donors and a quarter from foundations that apparently see some humans as, well, debris. One donor last year, a California woman who’d in the past given to the anti-religion group Gaylor used to lead, forked over $20,000, based presumably on Gaylor’s fund-raising pitch, which tells of helping girls pregnant at 12 or a girl raped by her father.
Both, of course, are horrible situations, almost as horrible as being not merely pregnant but chopped into little pieces and not at 12 but at a much, much more vulnerable age. After all, being killed by a choice-armed mother is much less tragic than being raped by monstrous father, yes?

No, actually. It's not. Helpfully, Matt at Badger Catholic goes through the story asking the questions you’d actually have upon reading this, such as: Did you call in the case of the obvious felony that got a 14-year-old pregnant?

And (http://wissup.blogspot.com/2010/08/madison-woman-writes-checks-to-help.html) Ginny Maziarka at Wissup does a more cold-fury version:

“We can only assume this means almost 19,000 babies were killed with the assistance of Gaylor and her ilk. That means 19,000 ‘ooopsies,’ ‘accidents,’ ‘mistakes,’ ‘unwanteds,’ ‘low-class,’ ‘destined to be poor,’ ‘loser’ babies didn't get the opportunity to contribute to society, prove themselves, make a difference.”

Two notes.  First, yes I was referenced in a JSOnline article.  Read the whole thing here.  Second, that's I think Gaylor's motivation is really comes down to class warfare.  She sees the poor as something detestable.  These utterly useless (what a Christian would call) persons infect her existence and she can think of nothing better than to remove them apparently in any way she can get away with.  But let us not forget to pray for our enemies.  It is not too late for Gaylor's conversion.

Homicidal maniac from Madison pays for 19,000 abortions, not enough, wants more

MADISON — At all hours, strangers phone Anne Nicol Gaylor's Madison home, always desperate.

The caller one recent morning was a middle-aged woman with a 14-year-old pregnant daughter. [I hope you contacted authorities to investigate?  Was this young of a girl assaulted by an older man??]

"What clinic will she be using?" asked Gaylor, 83, jotting down the response and the cost of a second-trimester abortion ($875).

"If we helped with $300, do you think you could find the rest?" Gaylor asked.

After the call, Gaylor opened a checkbook for the Women's Medical Fund, a Madison nonprofit that has helped pay for abortions for 34 years. Gaylor has written every check for every abortion.

This was No. 18,986. [F***ing incredible]

Controversial figure [Do you mean mass murderer?]

Gaylor is well-known for leading the Freedom From Religion Foundation in Madison[LOL, go figure!  Change the title to Freedom from Life Foundation] for decades. Less known is her work with the Women's Medical Fund[To Kill Defenseless Children], which she co-founded in 1976, the same year she helped start the foundation.

The fund's sole purpose is to pay for abortions.  [So what if a women wanted money to pay for a birth???] Last year, it paid out $162,202, about 75 percent of which came from individual donors, the rest from foundations.

There is no office and no paid staff. Gaylor, whose title is administrator, takes all of the calls — some 800 a year — at her dining room table on her home phone, the same one her four children and two granddaughters reach her on. There is no answering machine.

"It would burden anyone else to deal with all those calls," said her husband, Paul Gaylor, 84, a former vice president for a building maintenance company. "But she listens to every woman and cares for every single one of them."

The phone number isn't widely circulated. Women get referred from [wealthy] clinics, doctors and nurses.

"When you give money away, people find you," said Anne Nicol Gaylor, a petite woman with grayish-white hair and a soft voice. [Well at least her voice is soft, otherwise I'd think she was a monster!]

'All about the child' [WTF?!]

The Supreme Court legalized abortion three years before the fund began, but many women simply couldn't afford the procedure, said Bob West, 82, of Madison, a professor emeritus of chemistry and co-founder of the fund with his wife, Margaret West, now deceased, and Gaylor. The three had become friends through the Madison chapter of the group Zero Population Growth. [LOL!  Okay well that explains this whole thing finally.  They don't care about any of the people involved, after all they are destroying the planet.  Do they pay for forced abortions too?]

"For me, it was all about the child," he said. "In the kind of world I want to live in, all children would be wanted." [By whom?  Society wants children, it's just fruit loops like you who want them dead]

Gaylor said her motivation came from a doctor who told her about a girl who was raped by her father and had to drop out of high school to raise the child. "Those kind of stories are so numerous and so tragic," Gaylor said. [...how does abortion un-rape the girl?]

She sends out fundraising letters at least once a year, often tying the appeal to a significant event, such as Mother's Day.

"Of the 632 women the fund has helped so far this year, 147 were teenagers," Gaylor wrote to donors last Thanksgiving. "Of these, nine were only 13 years old, and one, not yet a teen, was just 12!" [I hope you can live with the psychological and health consequences those teenage girls must now live with Mrs. Gaylor.]

Gaylor used the occasion of her 80th birthday to hold a fundraising party for the fund at the Madison home of Dr. Dennis Christensen, an abortion provider who has since retired. [Hmm, no conflict of interest here.]  Gaylor sent invitations far afield, including one to a well-to-do woman in California she'd never met but who had donated to the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

The woman sent her regrets and a $20,000 check.

The other side

Anti-abortion activists have long been aware of the fund.

"It's a stark example of misguided compassion that serves as discrimination of the worst kind," said Peggy Hamill, state director of Pro-Life Wisconsin. "To finance extermination of pre-born children because those children would have been brought up poor is deplorable." [Exactly, this is Margaret Sanger to a T.  Exterminate the poor and minorities, Mrs Gaylor doesn't want to have to look at those filthy half humans]
Gaylor said no one is chasing down low-income pregnant woman. They're simply the ones who come to her. "If that's discrimination, so be it," she said. She thinks critics would view the fund differently if they heard the calls.

"We get calls, too," counters Sue Armacost, legislative director for Wisconsin Right to Life. "We understand how heartbreaking some situations are, but the answer is not urging and assisting a woman to destroy her child." [How many of those teenagers committed suicide I wonder?]

Gaylor does not mention slowing down. "My regret is that we don't have $1 million a year to give away so that we could help more women," she said.  [Homicidal maniac.]

The rest from Wisconsin State Journal

Women seeking information about the fund should inquire at a clinic that provides abortions. The fund can be reached at P.O. Box 248, Madison, WI 53701.