I was rooting around for ‘culture of life’ info this evening, and tried a trademark search here.
There were 4 hits, one for a credit card, registered 2003, another for a family service outfit in 2004, and Joy of Joys!, two new ones from March of this year by some outfit in Santa Monica CA. The first for “Decorative magnets”, the second for “Jewelry, namely bracelets, rubber bracelets, ankle bracelets, brooches, pins, ear clips, earrings, necklaces, charms, lockets, clocks, and watches.”
This could be big. It might even supplant those yellow “support our troops” ribbons on all the local Minivans!
There’s no yellow ribbon on my minivan, but I may just end up getting one o’ these*. Thanks for the heads up!
*It’s not like I need a ribbon on my van to know what I’m all about. I just like to piss liberals off.
Interesting stance. I do the exact opposite; I avoid plastering inflammatory statements on my car, even if I strongly agree with them, because it only takes one pissed-off idiot at the other end of the political spectrum to ruin your paint job as they walk by in the parking lot.
From what I can tell, it’s mostly about restricting reproductive rights, though the Terri Schiavo ordeal propted use of the phrase as well. Capital punishment, however, apparently doesn’t conflict with promoting a “culture of life.”
I believe the phrase “culture of life” was stolen from the English translation of Evangelium Vitae, an encyclical written by the Pope John Paul II. I haven’t read the whole encyclical (I haven’t read a whole papal encyclical since high school, and then only because I had a Jesuit for a religion teacher…), but I suspect the phrase has been somewhat… adapted, let’s say. The teachings of the Roman Catholic Church don’t line up all that neatly with the teachings of the Republican Party.
It’s an interesting article, but I’d like to see the study itself. The magazine and/or the authors of the article clearly have an axe to grind, and I’d prefer to look over the methodology of the study before taking it at face value.
That said, my earlier post was mostly referring to the person I most often hear use the term, President Bush.
