Contact: Jerry Horn, Priests for Life, 540-220-0095
The Imus scandal highlights a deeper and broader problem in our country, the disrespect we have for each other. The murders of my father, the Rev. A.D. King, and my uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King, were born of this disrespect. So were the deaths of 48 million babies by abortion. When we regard certain people as lesser than ourselves, the value of life is cheapened.
To me, it's as offensive to call an unborn baby a "blob of tissue" as it is to call a black woman a "ho." The disrespect to humanity is the same. My outrage is the same.
Yes, Don Imus's apologies are necessary. But I demand the same from every public figure who has ever said that babies in the womb are not persons.