How Can We Take This Stuff So Seriously?

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Today I was reading an article by ESPN.com columnist Patrick Hruby, a humorous treaty on what tired topics sports journalists should abandon. I was chuckling until I got to this sentence, concerning one of the topics that should be treated "as if it had been sucked into a black hole and is no longer subject to the standard rules of space and time":

Debate over the BCS (college football's Bowl Championship Series) championship game, which is no more tedious, ossified and less likely to change anyone's mind than debate over Roe v. Wade.

And my first thought was, "Did he honestly compare a freakin' college football game to a woman's right to choose?"


Or, to put it into terms that make more sense to us pro-lifers: Did he honestly compare a freakin' college football game to 40-odd million dead children?

It would be tempting to lump Ms. Beninato into the same category with these fools and accuse her of making something out of nothing ... but I actually agree with her. That is to say, I agree with her conclusion, even if I don't agree with the reasoning that led her there.

I know that people get very passionate about their college football. (Even if I don't understand it myself.) Still, it seems to be disrespectful for Roe (and, by logical extension, the entire abortion debate) to become just one more cliche in the sportswriters' toolbox. If he must make an allusion to current events, why couldn't he talk about American Idol, The Apprentice, or (if he's desperate to seem intellectual) the Fair Tax? No matter how crazy college football games may become, it seems highly unlikely that they will:

  • kill 3000-4000 people every day,

  • eliminate approximately one-fourth of the current generation,

  • increase the risk of psychological disorders, infertility, and even death for approximately 40% of women, and

  • cheapen the value of human life.

Actually, I take it back. I don't claim to understand college football, but I do have access to Wikipedia. As far as I can tell, the Bowl Championship Series is an arcane proces that makes no sense to the average person, creates champions out of thin air, and yet determines the fate of many college athletes. Roe also came out of an arcane process (penumbras out of emanations, indeed!), created the "Constitutional right" to legal abortion out of thin air, and yet determines the fate of millions. So maybe there are some similarities between the two.

However, a losing college football team will have an opportunity to try again next season. Roe's losers include millions of unborn children who won't have another opportunity at life, not on this earth anyway....

(cross-posted to Naaman the Ex-Leper)

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