grace number 66
today i am most grateful for free speech and our president.

i'll be honest, i'm a little frustrated with notre dame university. if you haven't read it in the news, (hmm, maybe i can post about this for today's stealing saturdays post) the catholics at notre dame and in the surrounding community do not want president obama to do the speech at their graduation commencement.

i mean, people are protesting and getting arrested left and right. all because they don't agree with some of the things that president obama believes in. really? is that really worth getting arrested for? i mean, i am alllllll for freedom of speech and believing in something. for the catholics in the notre dame area, i am very glad you believe so strongly in what you do...but the president is going to YOUR school to wish YOUR graduates luck and send them on the way of their future. he isn't going to your school to preform abortions or stem cell research, or whatever it is that you against. he is simply there to give his blessing, in a sense.

i guess this is a controversial post in my mind. i really do believe in free speech. i was never a fan of george bush, and am really glad he never spoke at my graduation. but if he did...then in some sense i would be honored. i mean, he WAS the president of the united states. i don't know maybe i'm just irritated with those catholics.

you know what irks me? on something i watched on tv about this situation, you see a mother yelling hysterically at the person who is interviewing them. she is screaming and says something like "because of HIM, i need to explain to my FOUR YEAR OLD daughter what ABORTION IS!!!!!!!" okay. this woman was an ignorant asshole. I mean she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown on tv. it was because she was standing and holding a 5 foot poster of an aborted fetus. i have such a problem with posters of aborted fetuses. i am 100% behind pro-choice. i honestly do not think i would be emotionally able to have an abortion myself. i've wanted to be a mother for too long, that i don't think i could do it. but i respect that i have the CHOICE to do. and i respect the extremely difficult choice others make. anyway back to the point... this woman made the choice herself to HOLD a sign of an aborted fetus with her four year old daughter standing on the side of her. that is so wrong in my opinion. aren't parents supposed to shelter their children? how scary that must have been for that little girl. i think this woman needs to take responsibility for her daughter wondering what abortion is. if this woman wasn't standing on the side of the road screaming about it with a ft poster of an aborted fetus, then i am sure her daughter wouldn't have asked. its not president obama's fault that she needed to explain abortion to a four year old.

i hope i didn't insult any one's beliefs with this post. i am a religious person and i also really believe in people having the right to believe whatever they want. its just irritating to me to see people protesting the president attending a graduation. it is just a graduation folks.