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Zoomie - You have SO piqued my curiosity... I even went to the Curves website and can't find a clue as to their "agenda."
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, pro-life.
The tangents are moot.
Being pro-life is bad?
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Aaaand this is why I didn't state exactly why I don't support Curves in the first place. I'm not going to be sucked into one of those political debates that never go anywhere or change anyone's opinion, anyhow.
Nope. In fact, there have been occasional local races that are in support of something that I do not, and I have not participated. But. Would you bandit such a race?
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(P.S. I suggest that any answers gloss over the details of the specific cause or charity at issue. I think we already know that as a diverse community, we're going to all have widely divergent views on a variety of hot-button issues. I'm simply curious to read whether folks would run in "the enemy's" race, not who or what the particular enemy might be.)
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Apparently I'm the only one who noticed that rather wise suggestion from the original poster? Or could you just not help yourself?
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If I REALLY wanted to run the race, but did not believe in the cause, I might consider running it and donating the exact same amount of money to a cause that is on the opposite side. So, if it was for a race that supported, I don't know, Killing the Whales, I'd donate the same amount of money to a Save the Whales fund. But then again, at that point, maybe I'd just decide it would be easier to just run the same distance in a park that day, and wait for the next weekend for a different race.
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