Equal Rights Institute BlogOutrage, Disgust, and Grief are Proper Emotional Responses https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/outrage-disgust-and-grief-are-proper-emotional-responses/ Clear Pro-Life Thinking Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:20:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cropped-ERI-436A89-Just-ERI-square-512-32x32.jpg Outrage, Disgust, and Grief are Proper Emotional Responses https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/outrage-disgust-and-grief-are-proper-emotional-responses/ 32 32 Outrage, Disgust, and Grief are Proper Emotional Responses https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/outrage-disgust-and-grief-are-proper-emotional-responses/ https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/outrage-disgust-and-grief-are-proper-emotional-responses/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:24:40 +0000 Timothy Brahm http://joshbrahm.com/?p=3052 Josh Brahm and I have been working on a blog post in response to the recent Planned Parenthood videos (we’re going to publish it on Monday). Working on this piece has been unbelievably draining. I have never written something that has so deeply emotionally affected me before. The alternating grief over the children and anger […]

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]]> Josh Brahm and I have been working on a blog post in response to the recent Planned Parenthood videos (we’re going to publish it on Monday).

Working on this piece has been unbelievably draining. I have never written something that has so deeply emotionally affected me before. The alternating grief over the children and anger at the people trying to cover this up has been a rough roller coaster of emotion.

People who know me well know that I can get animated but I tend to be very emotionally even-keel. It takes a lot to really upset me. When I get upset, I have an immediate impulse to take all of my opinions with a grain of salt because I feel like I’m not in control. I’ll tell Josh “my compass is broken right now,” meaning I don’t trust my intuition, just like I wouldn’t trust a compass that I thought might not be pointing north.

Yesterday I emotionally broke down, but for those few minutes my compass was pointing true north. I’m less emotional now, and I trust my compass less. Outrage, disgust, and grief are proper emotional responses. Being calm, cool, and collected is not remotely appropriate under the circumstances.

Disclaimer: Please don’t consider this permission to be a jerk. Let your passion motivate you to defend the dehumanized children, but without dehumanizing our opposition. Pray for them, don’t mistreat them. Be angry and do not sin (Psalms 4:4, Eph 4:26).

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