Pro-life vid of day: Football star boycotts Obama event over “God bless Planned Parenthood” remark
by Hans Johnson
Traditionally, members of the winning Super Bowl team visit the White House shortly before receiving their championship rings. Several former teammates of the Baltimore Ravens passed on the June 5th event to attend mini-camp for their new teams. But Matt Birk, who had just retired, chose not to meet President Obama for another reason. Already known for his opposition to “gay marriage”, he is also strongly pro-life.
As he told KFAN radio the next morning:
“I wasn’t there. I would say this. I would say that I have great respect for the office of the presidency, but about five or six weeks ago our president made a comment in a speech. And he said: ‘God bless Planned Parenthood.’
Planned Parenthood performs about 330,000 abortions a year. I am active in the pro-life movement and I just felt like I couldn’t deal with that. I couldn’t endorse that in any way.”
The following day Birk also spoke by phone to the Pro Football Talk Live show. The conversation turns to the controversy over his firm convictions at about the 6:00 mark:
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Crowing Moment of Awesome here. But I bet the media is going to focus more on demonizing Trent Franks.
Prolife men are the greatest!!!!
I think obama was the lucky one.
God bless baby killers?
Matt Birk was on with Sean Hannity last night.
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/index.html
Thank you Matt Birk!!
God will not bless Planned Parenthood.
Matt Birk – he’s now a big fan of mine!
What is it that you excel at which would cause Matt Birk to become a fan of yours Pete?
Real-stupid-ity,
What,…if anything,… do you ‘exhale’,…but stupid?
kentheburper
Are you semi-literate?
Pete wrote that Matt Birk is now a big fan of his.
I asked why.
Do you need a diagram?
I think you stopped exhaling a while back.
And it would appear to be a very, very, very long time since you last inhaled.
Prolife men are the greatest!!!