Monday, July 20, 2009

I might vomit.

Please tell me that the rest of "Christendom" doesn't feel this way. I was directed to a new website this morning: www.pray4trig.com It's a website designed to organize a national day of prayer on Trig Palin's birthday next year. "Congregations across the globe will join in asking God to make Trig whole....and for healing Trig of his affliction."

Ugh. Really?!? I cannot begin to express how appalling this is to me. I do believe that it is well intended, albeit misguided, but to really get to the heart/mind behind it, you must read the comments on the welcome post. The creator of the site is actually indignant that those of us with Ds would want our children to remain as they are...as they were created to be.

I'm sure I'll revisit this at some point, but I cannot shake the sick feeling her comments, and the attitudes behind them, have left me with this morning.

9 comments:

  1. Ewww. I am with you on this. Besides my general aversion to all things Palin, I REALLY don't like it when people refer to individuals "suffering" from Down syndrome. Really? Suffering? It doesn't seem so to me. My daughter with Ds is 11 and the only times she suffers is when someone else is rude or unkind (very rare, BTW). Being "afflicted" is just as bad. Make Trig whole? I think he's more than whole--he even has more chromosomes than the rest of us.

    I guarantee that the rest of Christendom does not feel the same way as these who are praying for Trig's "healing".

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  2. p.s. forgot to mention that we're a homeschooling family too!

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  3. WOW!!!!!!!! just WOW!!!!!!!! You know what my? My son has Down syndrome and the BIBLE I read tells me my son is "fearfully and wonderfully made". There is nothing incomplete or unwhole about my son or any other child with Down syndrome, Cerebal palsy or anything else society labels a disability.

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  4. Oh I know! I don't understand why people think Down syndrome is an affliction that people "suffer" from. When I didn't have Matthew yet, I had very little knowledge of Down syndrome, but I certainly, truly did not think of it as "suffering" that needed healing. I'm still trying to come up with something to post on that site. Right now, I'm still reeling in disbelief at how misguided this cause is and how people have twisted religious views to advance their cause.

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  5. This is Joyce. This just leaves a lump in my throat. It seems this person has just picked the Palin baby without authorization from the family. I hope they get in touch and ask for this "event" to be shut down. That in itself doesn't seem appropriate to me. But gosh they have really gone all out with the website and everything.

    Then there is the content. I can recall a few times over the years I have had people come up to me and ask me if they can have the same prayer for Sarah. At first I was taken aback even angry, but after a while I was just like "whatever."

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  6. Hi Tara--as you know I'm Muslim but I ran across this today and was thinking of you.
    http://sadsin.blogspot.com/2009/01/flawless-perspective.html
    Maybe you could post it on the site or here on your blog.

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  7. wow. ummmm. wow. interesting. i'll have to follow and see if it works.

    then, if baby #2 is a boy, we can hold a vigil to pray THAT chromosome away, too, because lc has tons of girl clothes and i'd hate to see them go to waste.

    good grief.

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  8. Ch, your comment made me lol! Excellent thought. :)

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  9. Ch - I'm laughing, too. That's a brilliant comment.

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