by LauraLoo
Planned Parenthood Arizona decided to wish everyone Happy Holidays and a wonderful 2014 by singing a truly cringe-worthy original song, “The 12 Days of Contraception,” written by staff and performed by volunteers.
Leave it to Planned Parenthood to attempt to tie preventing and aborting pregnancy into the birth of Jesus Christ.
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by Kelli
What I have learned in the last 3 years is what to really expect when having a child with Down Syndrome. Someone once gave me a book about what to expect, I read a few chapters and threw it away. I hated it. Most books and pamphlets are so outdated the material is beyond depressing….
Some people still don’t see the beauty in a child like ours….
I have learned there is beauty in “imperfections”. I don’t believe Ollie is one bit imperfect but in the eyes of many she is. There is great beauty in all her God given pieces. Her crooked pinky fingers, the light spots in her eyes, the way she smiles…. Her tiny little heart beat that doesn’t beat quite as it should but it’s healthy – oh that heart beat is precious. The way she smiles with her whole body – I can truly see her smile from the back of her head she wears it so well!
I have learned that God’s plans are always best and in time they always make sense. I have learned that unanswered prayers are often answered – just not as you have requested. I have learned that having a sibling with Down Syndrome doesn’t limit your other children but makes them better, more compassionate, more understanding, more open hearted, more open to the world in general….
Fear is abolished, God has prevailed! Every day I thank the good Lord for that single extra chromosome that has made all the difference!
~ Annie Reid, discussing what she has learned from her daughter Ollie Faith, who was prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome and is now three years old, The House That Jade Built via NetworkedBlogs.com, April 23
when you see a great video, always download it before it gets deleted
Stay classy, PP.
So how do you tie the original lyrics to jesus? Hens, pears, maids?
Google is your friend Reality.
Use it.
I did. So I’m right. The 12 days of contraception is no more an attempted tie in to the birth of jesus than the 12 days of christmas is.
Meh. The Bob and Doug version is still the best in my opinion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DTwLqR071M
Happy Boxing Week.
when you see a great video, always download it before it gets deleted
…and sure enough, it’s gone. That was sure quick lol.
If looking at the song, “The 12 Days Of Christmas” or in general the 12 Days Of Christmas themselves, I did a search and I’ve decided I like this link’s assessment: http://www.cresourcei.org/cy12days.html
The songs gifts are hidden meanings to the teachings of the faith. The “true love” mentioned in the song doesn’t refer to an earthly suitor, it refers to God Himself. The “me” who receives the presents refers to every baptized person. The partridge in a pear tree is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. In the song, Christ is symbolically presented as a mother partridge which feigns injury to decoy predators from her helpless nestlings, much in memory of the expression of Christ’s sadness over the fate of Jerusalem: “Jerusalem! Jerusalem! How often would I have sheltered thee under my wings, as a hen does her chicks, but thou wouldst not have it so…”
The other symbols mean the following:
2 Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments
3 French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues
4 Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists
5 Golden Rings = The first Five Books of the Old Testament, the “Pentateuch”, which gives the history of man’s fall from grace.
6 Geese A-laying = the six days of creation
7 Swans A-swimming = the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments
8 Maids A-milking = the eight beatitudes
9 Ladies Dancing = the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit
10 Lords A-leaping = the ten commandments
11 Pipers Piping = the eleven faithful apostles
12 Drummers Drumming = the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostle’s Creed
I like yours too Mother in Texas!!
Carla,
I didn’t write it, I just happened across the article.
I gathered that.
“Twelve days of Christmas” was adapted from similar New Years’ or spring French carols, of which at least three are known, all featuring a partridge, perdriz or perdriole, as the first gift. The pear tree appears only in the English version, but this could also indicate a French origin.
In the northern counties of England, the song was often called the “Ten Days of Christmas”, as there were only ten gifts. The kinds of gifts vary in a number of the versions, some of them becoming alliterative tongue-twisters.
According to The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, “Suggestions have been made that the gifts have significance, as representing the food or sport for each month of the year. Importance [certainly has] long been attached to the Twelve Days, when, for instance, the weather on each day was carefully observed to see what it would be in the corresponding month of the coming year. Nevertheless, whatever the ultimate origin of the chant, it seems probable [that] the lines that survive today both in England and France are merely an irreligious travesty.
In 1979, a Canadian hymnologist, Hugh D. McKellar, published an article, “How to Decode the Twelve Days of Christmas”, claiming that “The Twelve Days of Christmas” lyrics were intended as a catechism song to help young Catholics learn their faith, at a time when practising Catholicism was criminalized in England (1558 until 1829). McKellar offered no evidence for his claim and subsequently admitted that the purported associations were his own invention.
None of the enumerated items would distinguish Catholics from Protestants, and so would hardly need to be secretly encoded.
Since PP’s purloining of the tune amounts to nothing more than a way of promoting contraceptive use, there are no grounds on which to claim that it is an attempt to tie preventing and aborting pregnancy to the birth of jesus.
Are you just playing ignorant “reality” or do you take this blog’s participants for dummies?”
Advertising works by taking something meaningful to the consumer and attempting to make a connection btw that and an advertised product, so in the end the consumer will be conditioned to the product as representing that which is meaningful to him/her. In this case, PP wants the consumer to associate contraceptives with the goodness of religion for those on the fence about the unreligious nature of contraceptives.
Will you already stop with that intellectual dishonesty “reality!” 2014 is around the corner, its time to re-think it…
Thomas R., please stop feeding the troll.
JDC: I am doing this so that his fallacies are disproven just in case we have some other pro-aborts buying into his ramblings.
“JDC: I am doing this so that his fallacies are disproven just in case we have some other pro-aborts buying into his ramblings.”
Anyone dumb enough to buy into his ramblings is probably to far gone to be reached.
In this case, PP wants the consumer to associate contraceptives with the goodness of religion for those on the fence about the unreligious nature of contraceptives. – are you just playing ignorant “thomas r.”? Or fantasizing? The original ’12 days of christmas’ has absolutely nothing to do with religion or the birth of jesus. Therefore, PP’s use of the tune for a song about contraception has zero intent to associate them with religion.
the unreligious nature of contraceptives. – seriously? So you think no one who believes in god uses contraceptives? Is that it?
Will you already stop with that intellectual dishonesty “reality!” 2014 is around the corner, its time to re-think it… – reflecting much?
I am doing this so that his fallacies are disproven – now that’s what I call wishful thinking on a grand scale. There is nothing in my comments on this thread which is a fallacy or disproven. Any intellectual dishonesty is in the attempt to claim that PP’s use of the tune has any intent to associate it with religion or the birth of jesus.