October 26, 2014
Touch(ing) Down: Gabe White vs. Richard Dawkins
There has been ample coverage from various publications about Richard Dawkins’s recent shocking Twitter comment that, rather than carrying to term an unborn baby known to have Down Syndrome, the mother should “abort it and try again.” Any other choice but this, asserts the purportedly pro-choice hero, would be “immoral.”
Ignoring (for now) the fact that a sound basis for atheist morality is as non-existent as their non-god, I’d like to introduce Mr. Dawkins to Gabe White. Is it possible for a football game to end with both teams being victorious? Watch it happen.
Gabe is an 8-year-old football fanatic and honorary “manager” of his older brother’s freshman football team -- the Rhinelander High Hodags. Gabe also has Down Syndrome. The Hodags played their last home game of the season on Oct. 16, and unfortunately for them, when the clock ran out, their score was the lower of the two on the...(Read Full Article)