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Well, when I went to a steakhouse in India, I didn't need to cross a picket line. Nor did I see billboards condemning me for eating beef. > It would be odd for

Well, when I went to a steakhouse in India, I didn't need to cross a picket line. Nor did I see billboards condemning me for eating beef. > It would be odd for the church to not openly oppose it There's a difference between politics and religion. Getting back to my point, my opinion is that treating abortion as a political issue is one of the many reasons why people leave.

RHSeeger 6y ago
> Well, when I went to a steakhouse in India, I didn't need to cross a picket line. The comment was specifically about how it didn't seem unreasonable for the church to publicly oppose abortion, in response to a billboard on the church's property. > the church had a massive anti-abortion billboard over their parking lot It wasn't about the members of the church protesting at a hospital or other facility that performs abortions. Admittedly, that does happen in some places, but it's not what was being discussed.
- gwbas1c 6y ago
  The Catholic opposition to abortion is very similar to the Hindu opposition to consuming beef. Talk to some people from India about political/religious issues there. Eating beef, meat, and/or eggs is as offensive to some people in India, for religions reasons, as abortion is in the US. Yet India doesn't have the same mass exodus from its churches as the US does.
bitcurious 6y ago
> In northern India, cow slaughter is illegal in all the states, with Jammu & Kashmir and Jharkhand leading the list in the terms of severity of punishment. A person found guilty of cow slaughter can be sent to 10 years imprisonment in these two states. > Kerala is the only state in the south where there are no restrictions on the slaughter and consumption of cow meat https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/beef-madhya-pradesh-video-cow-vigilantes-gau-rakshaks-2938751/ https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/bee...
- selimthegrim 6y ago
  That law in Kashmir is from RPC and was abolished when state was abolished (and isn't enforced in Muslim majority areas). Furthermore you can read DN Jha on how Brahmins ate plenty of beef in Vedic times until Buddhists showed up.

RHSeeger 6y ago

> Well, when I went to a steakhouse in India, I didn't need to cross a picket line. The comment was specifically about how it didn't seem unreasonable for the church to publicly oppose abortion, in response to a billboard on the church's property. > the church had a massive anti-abortion billboard over their parking lot It wasn't about the members of the church protesting at a hospital or other facility that performs abortions. Admittedly, that does happen in some places, but it's not what was being discussed.

gwbas1c 6y ago
The Catholic opposition to abortion is very similar to the Hindu opposition to consuming beef. Talk to some people from India about political/religious issues there. Eating beef, meat, and/or eggs is as offensive to some people in India, for religions reasons, as abortion is in the US. Yet India doesn't have the same mass exodus from its churches as the US does.

bitcurious 6y ago

> In northern India, cow slaughter is illegal in all the states, with Jammu & Kashmir and Jharkhand leading the list in the terms of severity of punishment. A person found guilty of cow slaughter can be sent to 10 years imprisonment in these two states. > Kerala is the only state in the south where there are no restrictions on the slaughter and consumption of cow meat https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/beef-madhya-pradesh-video-cow-vigilantes-gau-rakshaks-2938751/ https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/bee...

selimthegrim 6y ago
That law in Kashmir is from RPC and was abolished when state was abolished (and isn't enforced in Muslim majority areas). Furthermore you can read DN Jha on how Brahmins ate plenty of beef in Vedic times until Buddhists showed up.