They're Komen for You!

The Susan G. Komen foundation is one of the leading supporters of breast cancer research and awareness in the nation.  They have regularly provided millions of dollars to another organization that deals with breast cancer issues - Planned Parenthood.  Planned Parenthood, in addition to supporting breast cancer awareness, research, and treatment, also provides funding for abortions.  Of course, abortion remains one of the most divisive political issues in the country today.  Pro-life, pro-death, pro-choice, etc. - the monikers for whatever your position is on the issue span the spectrum from accurate to incendiary.  Everyone is entitled to their opinion on the issue - except Komen, apparently.

Recently, Komen ceased providing money to Planned Parenthood because it is a pro-life organization and doesn't want any of its money going toward abortions, and I can respect that.  If you are against abortions, why would you want to fund an organization that pays for them.

The liberal backlash against Komen has been unrelenting in the last week or so.  Komen's money is its own to use as it sees fit.  If they see fit not to fund abortions, so be it.  That's part of the greatness of America - people and organizations can use their money to support causes they believe in.  And there are enough organizations on both sides of every issue that no issue goes ignored or unfunded.

But to hear the liberals tell it, Komen is an evil entity that should be relegated to the depths of hell for pulling its funding from abortion supporting Planned Parenthood.  They are essentially calling for a war on Komen.  How dare they stop giving Planned Parenthood money!  If they won't cave to the liberals' demands to continue funding abortions through Planned Parenthood, then Komen has no place in our society.
Well, guess what, liberals?  Komen can do what they want with their money, and I respect their move to stop funding an organization that they disagree with on such an important issue as abortion.  There's nothing evil or unlawful about it.  They are pro-life and don't want to give money to an organization that pays for abortions.  What's the outrage for?

Well, I'll tell you what the outrage is:  if you don't support liberal causes, then you don't deserve to be left alone; you don't deserve to have a right to use your money as you see fit; you don't deserve the same freedoms that liberal organizations enjoy.  It's the whole "free speech for me but not for thee" and the holier than thou mindset of the liberals today.  If you dare to stand up for what you believe in, and it's not in line with the liberal agenda, then you are evil and should be attacked, shut down, boycotted, destroyed.

The real outrage is that Komen, which stood up for what it believe in, has caved to the pressure from the hypocritical liberals.  Chalk one up for the liberals.  Just remember this when a liberal organization of the same magnitude of Komen decides to stop funding or supporting an entity that holds a conservative point of view.  Instead of hearing unrelenting attacks, I suspect the liberal media will be pinning medals to their chests and applauding the principled integrity of the leftist organization.

It reminds me of Obama's continuous opposition and attacks against super PAC's, until recently embracing them and deciding to utilize them in his own campaign, which has been well undeway for over a year now, all of which is being paid for by us.  Instead of leading the nation, he's spending our money to fly around the country to important states in the upcoming November election to campaign for another term.

The liberals are hypocrites and have no shame.  You're free, until you don't support one of their pet projects - then you're evil.  Freedom means respecting the decisions and positions of those who disagree with you.  It doesn't mean trying to shut down and demonize those who disagree with you.  There's a proper way to oppose those who don't agree with you, and then there's the way the liberals have been attacking Komen.