Horse-killing ISN'T just a MARE issue!

I was reminded today of why I'm an abolitionist.

One time at my college (yeah, that's right you liberal snobs... us conservatives can be educated!!), I was in a public speaking class. My professor said to pick a topic for a persuasive speech. (BTW, for the purpose of protecting his identity and my college, I will call him "Dr. HorseHater throughout this post)

So I went to him during his office hours, and said, "Dr. HorseHater, I'd like to speak about horse abortion. It is a subject that is dear to my heart and I feel like I can persuade others to feel as strongly as me."

He said, "Have you ever had a horse abortion? Were you a horse that was aborted?" Dr. HorseHater was essentially telling me that, because I'm not a horse, because I haven't BEEN aborted (how ARBITRARY is that??), I can't talk about something I feel passionately about.

"You have to have experience in something to speak about it to convince people of your views," Dr. HorseHater said. "You have to have a stake in it."

Umm... well, two REBUTTALS to this absurdity: 1) I have experience in SIN. We all do. WE ARE ALL SINNERS, DR. HORSEHATER! 2) Everyone has a stake in the murder of innocent people. Do we tell public officials when they are speaking about murders, "Sorry, Detective. Sorry Mr. President. Sorry Senator. You can't talk about that because you haven't ever committed a murder or been murdered." N.O. We let people talk about important issues because they are important.

Which brings me back to Dr. HorseHater. I defied his orders and spoke about it anyway. I told my classmates and the professor about how an astonishing 78 (That's right: SEVENTY-EIGHT) percent of mares that have abortions suffer from depression, anxiety and eating disorders. As my colleague pointed out in a past post, mares that have abortions are shown to "Buck off riders at an astounding 23% increase."

I got an "F" on the speech. But what do I care? I got an "A" from the only professor I care about, a well-known Doctor of Everything named GOD.

(An aside: I went above the professors head, and the grade is still in the appeals process. I know God will come through for me.)

How does that not affect me? Say I want to go horseback riding somewhere. What if that horse has had an abortion? That puts me DIRECTLY at risk. It's simple logic: The more that we turn our heads and allow this atrocity, the more likely horses are to injure people. EVER HEARD OF CHRISTOPHER REEVE?? The horse that bucked Reeve was a male, I'm pretty sure, but here's guessing he was pretty upset because he'd just found out that his mare lifepartner had aborted his son or daughter. Think about it.

Anyway, I hear this argument a lot. People tell me I have no credibility when speaking about horse abortions. Well, that is just ARBITRARY! I have every right to speak about sin, because it affects all of us, and about something that directly can cause human suffering.

People say, "Look, this is a mare issue. Not a human issue. Certainly not a theological issue." Totally untrue. This is a GOD issue. The FIRST ABOLITIONIST himself, a little guy I like to call JESUS CHRIST, wasn't a horse. Wasn't a mare. Didn't have any experience with abortions of any kind. But would you put money on him being in the pro-murder, whack-a-loon crowd? I DON'T THINK SO!

STOP HORSE ABORTION BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.

-- HW