(Tim) Those Christian hipsters still mesmerized by Senator Obama, thinking him to be a gentleman, need to watch this video. And anyone wondering how believers could vote for such a man need only listen to a podcast of the sermons these hispters sit under, week after weak. Vacuous and sentimental, but so very chic.
(Tim, w/thanks to Mark, James, and David) Across the country, Christians should be refusing to participate in United Way campaigns that fund Planned Parenthood. It's not enough that some United Way chapters allow donors to specify certain charities or exclude others. We should have nothing to do with an organization that provides a single dollar of support for those making a living off the slaughter of unborn babies safely nestled in their mother's womb.
Planned Parenthood is wicked, ruthless, heartless, cruel, deceptive, bloodthirsty, and depraved. Planned Parenthood is also obscenely rich.
How many of your tax dollars will be used this year to fund these worshipers of Molech? Have you and the men of your church opposed that funding? Let's not be monkey see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil men.
To help in our recovery of the pure religion that is undefiled before God and the Father, here are some recent articles exposing the business end of Planned Parenthood...
Continue reading "Slaughterhouse-Two hundred and fifty thousand (per year)..." »
(Tim: A week or so ago, thirty plus members of Church of the Good Shepherd went to Bloomington's City Council meeting to oppose our tax dollars being appropriated by the Council members to fund an organization that makes Hitler's Third Reich and it's Holocaust factories look like child's play. I'm speaking of course of Planned Parenthood which makes its living off of the slaughter of unborn children tenderly nestled in their mother's womb. By itself, Planned Parenthood is responsible for a quarter of a million of those murders each year, and they're moving their abattoirs into more affluent areas in order to grow their bloody profit.
Each year here in Bloomington, Planned Parenthood goes through the charade of requesting tax dollars to help provide its clients with some service close to, but not exactly coterminous with it's slaughter machine. And each year, our city fathers cuddle up to this progressive nonprofit and ante up our dough over our vociferous protest. One of those speaking against this Holocaust funding this year was Mary Lee's and my dear friend and fellow CGS member, Joshua Congrove. Although we were out of town at the time, we heard Josh's testimony was good, so I asked him if he could send me a copy. Here are a few prefaratory comments he wrote to set the scene, followed by what he said that night.)
This year, as usual, Planned Parenthood received a donation from the Bloomington City Council (and from public funds) to support a particular medical procedure. While the procedure itself is unobjectionable, the giving of public money to an organization that performs hundreds of abortions per year is an egregious act that demands objection...
(Tim, w/thanks to Jeff) Today, Dr. James Dobson aired a fifteen minute exposure of Senator Barack Obama's attempt to cloak his radical politics as if it were on version of a faithful Christian conscience. In the program, Dr. Dobson said Senator Obama is trying to govern by the "lowest common denominator of morality." Dr. Dobson labelled Senator Obama's support for the killing of the unborn as "a fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution," going on to ask, "Am I required in a democracy to conform my efforts in the political arena to his bloody notion of what is right with regard to the lives of tiny babies? What (Senator Obama is) trying to say here is unless everybody agrees, we have no right to fight for what we believe."
"Bloody notion of of what is right" indeed.
(Tim) My daughter, Michal Crum, just forwarded me a link to American Life League's "Protest the Pill" web site. Of course it would take Roman Catholics to be concerned about the pill killing unborn children, wouldn't it?
Where would our nation be without Nazarene Jim Dobson, Baptist Chuck Colson, Atheist Jews Nat Hentoff and Bernard Nathanson (since converted to Roman Catholicism), Methodist Don Wildemon, or Roman Catholics Richard John Neuhaus, Joe Scheidler, and Judie Brown?
Reformed believers aren't concerned about widows and orphans in their distress? Well, sure we are, but saving souls is so much more important! Then too, there's that whole spirituality of the church thing...
Who cares about babies?
(Tim) Yesterday, I received the latest in a barrage of evidence showing that the deception God has given our nation over to is deeply entrenched in the church, also. We've intentionally chosen churches and pastors whose specialty is feeding their sheep a milk-only diet and we're reaping the fruit of that choice in our inability to "discern good and evil." So, when it comes to hard choices between good and evil, we're little babies with our mouths open, ready to be deceived (Hebrews 5:13,14).
Nothing demonstrates our sinful immaturity more than the broad support Senator Barack Obama's presidential candidacy has within the church. Yesterday, I posted my criticism of this statement made by a senior InterVarsity staff member in an E-mail he sent across the country: "Evangelicals are now seeing that both parties do offer helpful perspectives and that those things that a Christian should have convictions about are more than just one or two issues. Amen and amen."
Then, last night, I received another E-mail from a friend who attends a cool dude urban PCA church, asking:
When speaking with many friends about the election, I have found out that many of them voted for Obama. They are Christians as well. I ask how they can vote for someone who believes in the murder of infants, and they come back with something approximate to this:
"Yes, abortion is awful, but that's not the only issue. The economy, the war, race relations, unemployment, health care (I'm giving many examples given to me) are just as important, and that's many issues vs one. I hate that people have become one issue voters. I hate the republican party, so I can't vote for them." Etc.
How am I to respond to that? I can only think to say that abortion is murder, and are we not to care about millions of innocents who get murdered each year?
So now a test. As a follower of Jesus Christ, why will you not vote for Senator Obama?
Note, the question isn't whether or not you'd vote for Senator McCain, nor is it which candidate you prefer. We're strictly limiting the question to Senator Obama: Why won't you vote for him?
And by all means, give us irony and sarcasm and satire, too. The fact that we're having to answer this question is such an indictment of the church that we must be careful not to legitimate it with too much serious, thoughtful response. Please send your contributions to tbbayly at gmail dot com. And may the best man (used generically, of course) win.
(Tim) It's been a great sadness to me this past year or so to see Joe Sobran's pen largely silent due to health problems. Then today, after many months' silence, I received this new article by E-mail. As usual, Sobran does an excellent job of speaking for me--this time, concerning our president political charade.
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PRESIDENT OTHER
by Joe Sobran
The Hopeless Hopefuls
When Bill Buckley ran for mayor of New York in 1965, he offered the voter "the internal composure that comes of knowing that there are rational limits to politics." It was the most sublime campaign promise of all time, and he wound up with 13 percent of the vote. He could take pleasure in knowing that Aristotle would have endorsed him.
The U.S. presidential race of 2008 is not a fight in which Aristotle has an obvious dog...
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(Tim) Recently, I've grown weary of man-pleasing Christian leaders positing moral equivalence between the Republicans and Democrats, saying and writing things like this just sent out to a bunch of leaders by a veteran InterVarsity staff worker who, in the course of commending this article and the St. Louis churches profiled in it, had this to say about the Democratic Party's "helpful perspectives":
Evangelicals are now seeing that both parties do offer helpful perspectives and that those things that a Christian should have convictions about are more than just one or two issues. Amen and amen.
Bunk, and double bunk. So I responded to my dear friend this way:
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"both parties do offer helpful perspectives..."
What?
So of course we all agree that Bonhoeffer was a fool, plotting to kill the murderer of millions of innocents. Got what he deserved. He should have been able to see the Holocaust in the context of the larger and deeper political and military realities Hitler faced and not been so singleminded in his actions...
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(News just filed by our Wheaton correspondent, Kent Woodyard) A tiny, hominid-like creature became a national icon this past week after fleeing the uterine prison of its unloving mother. The yet-to-be-named human fetus apparently squirmed out between two and three a.m. Thursday morning, and has been in hiding ever since.
The halfling’s former carrier, Brooklyn waitress Alison Hooper, shed some light on why the fetus may have prematurely fled her womb. Ms. Hooper reports that she was planning on terminating her pregnancy the very next day and she speculates that the pseudo-child must have caught wind of his impending doom after overhearing a conversation she had with live-in boyfriend Tom Haynes the night before.
“We were trying to decide which Planned Parenthood clinic had the least chance of being bombed and I may have said the abortion word a few times,” said Hooper. “I always thought of the fetus as just another part of my body, so you can imagine my shock when I awoke on Thursday to find my stomach just as flat and sexy as I hoped it would be on Friday.”
While most unwilling mothers would be content to simply enjoy their good fortune, Ms. Hooper has decided to press the issue by demanding that she still be allowed to abort the fetus...
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(Tim)
Throughout my adult years, Senator Ted Kennedy has been our nation's most visible proponent of wickedness in high places. Chief among his high crimes has been his ruthless promotion of the altars of Molech upon which many millions of little ones have been sacrificed. And from Chappaquiddick on, his personal life has been notorious.
Yet, even a month ago at the Papal Mass held at Nationals Park, the Roman Catholic church could not bring herself to enforce her own rules of discipline against him or fellow Roman Catholic pro-abortion Senators John Kerry and Christopher Dodd. They all received Communion.
While confessing Christians such as President Bush are issuing statements commending Senator Kennedy as a great statesman, my hero Joe Scheidler has struck the right note in calling us to pray for the Senator's soul:
We're all praying for him. We hope his ailment will bring conversion. We can't wish anyone eternal punishment.
May God have mercy on Senator Kennedy's soul as he faces death and judgment.
(Tim) From the Pulpit of Church of the Good Shepherd
Wedding of Lucas Weeks and Hannah Bayly
May 17, 2008
That He Might Sanctify Her
Ephesians 5: 21-33
Lucas and Hannah, it’s a curious thing that the God Who made us, the One who is our Creator and therefore knows us best, has not left us free to develop according to our own inclinations. He does not abandon us to our own sentiments and passions...
(Tim) The announcement by the National Abortion Rights Action League yesterday, that they support Senator Obama's presidential candidacy, has the women desperately clinging to Senator Clinton spitting mad. One woman sent an E-mail saying:
I want to crawl up in the fetal position but instead I have to go report as chair of the League of Women Voters Nominating Committee. I just tried calling NARAL and the office is closed." -Alisa
So, good citizens, if you're a single-issue voter as I am, you now know who is the most dependable advocate of the slaughter of little babies yet in their mother's womb.
"For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is greedy for gain, And from the prophet even to the priest Everyone deals falsely. They have healed the brokenness of My people superficially, Saying, 'Peace, peace,' But there is no peace. Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done? They were not even ashamed at all; They did not even know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time that I punish them, They shall be cast down," says the LORD. (Jeremiah 6:13-15)
(Tim) A few years after Yale was founded, a student spoke critically of one of Yale's tutors saying, "He has no more grace than this chair." Yale's response was swift: The student was expelled and, despite his apology (contra Wikipedia), Yale refused to reinstate him. Centuries later, Yale named one of her Divinity School buildings for this student. It's the only building ever named for a student who was expelled.
One of this student's contemporaries also attended Yale a few years earlier when Yale was just being chartered. At that time, Jonathan Edwards himself was caught up in the discipline of Yale's tutors. Their infraction?
They were promoting Arminian theology. Yale had been founded because of Harvard's betrayal of Christian doctrine, so no one involved in Yale's founding was about to let it happen again.
What does Yale discipline today?
This past year, a Yale art student regularly impregnated herself (artificially, with a syringe), then killed the babies she never knew by taking oral abortifacients--all of which she carefully documented with a video camera for display at a Yale art exhibition. Yale's administration was quite embarrassed and released a statement...
Continue reading "Just down the street from our church-houses..." »
(Tim/ w/thanks to Jeff) If you're inclined to give to United Way, keep in mind that Planned Parenthood's murderers have been supported by donors to United Way in cities and towns around the country for many years, now. It's hard to think of a more elitist, racist, murderous organization in American history. And if you live here in Bloomington, our City Council uses your taxes to help fund Planned Parenthood, also.
(Tim, w/thanks to Kamilla) On this, the third anniversary of what Nat Hentoff refers to as "the longest public execution in American history," here's a memorial to Terry Schiavo that presents Senator Obama's latest thoughts on her life and death. The piece ran in the Jewish World Review.
Those who trust in the Lord are steady as Mount Zion, unmoved by any circumstance. Just as the mountains surround and protect Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds and protects His people. For the wicked shall not rule the godly, lest the godly be forced to do wrong. O Lord, do good to those who are good, whose hearts are right with the Lord; but lead evil men to execution. And let Israel have quietness and peace. (Psalm 125, Living Bible)
(Tim) Ambassador Keyes makes the right points about Senator Obama, here.
(Tim) When I read Jacques Ellul's False Presence of the Kingdom
Any Christian pastor watching the ruckus over the sermons of Senator Barack Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, this past few weeks should have quickly concluded that this controversy is significant, principally, in yielding one more step in the inexorable movement of the removal of truth and courage and boldness from the proclamation of God's Word in churches around our country. It's been a terrible moment when someone watching closely could literally watch the feminization of discourse taking huge steps forward, particularly in the public discourse of the Church and Her Word known as preaching. (And no, I'm not defending the particulars of Pastor Wright's sermons.)
If you haven't read this work by Ellul, buy it now and read it carefully. Ellul has the sort of mind and pen that probe and expose our hearts such that we are invigorated and feel as if we might be partaking of the air and wind of another more truthful and honest age.
Remembering Ellul's wonderful bracingness, I just found and read a short essay by him, from 1947, titled, "On Nuremberg." I post it here as an historical meditation on the depravity of man, and thus the necessity of the substitutionary atonement--Good Friday's priceless treasure of the cross and blood and death of Jesus Christ. Oh how we need that precious blood!
Think beyond ourselves, to the terrible bloodsheds Western civilization has been (and presently is) built upon...
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I’ve been deeply troubled for many years as I’ve noted how pastors, elders, and Christian health care professionals don’t bother to educate, let alone speak prophetically to the church about the attacks upon the Image of God multiplying before our eyes. Most of the attacks occur at life’s vulnerable margins—the unborn, the newborn, the feeble, the comatose, the elderly—and they happen in the millions each year. The souls that die are those souls Christians should be most concerned for because, in our time, these are the widows, orphans, and sojourners in distress.
But certain forces conspire to silence our consciences, keeping us blind, passive, and unfaithful to the watchman’s duties as these attacks grow. What are those forces?
Well of course, materialism, love of comfort, greed, selfishness, fear, unbelief, hatred of the gift of discernment, and more. But, for many of us, the critical factor is our own direct and indirect involvement in bloodshed.
Directly, we ourselves have fornicated and, to escape the mess, allowed our girlfriend to hire Planned Parenthood to murder our child. We ourselves have turned away from a pregnancy at an inconvenient age—say forty or forty-five—and secretly driven to the city to have our little one murdered. We have allowed our obstetrician to talk us into killing our unborn child after an ultrasound revealed certain serious fetal anomalies of a genetic origin. We have refused to allow our loved ones to be fed by tube, depriving them of the means of the sustaining of life when death was neither imminent nor inevitable. We have institutionalized our fathers and mothers, declaring our work for the Lord more important than the Fifth Commandment; and, shortly after institutionalization, we were greatly relieved that death came quickly.
Indirectly, we have been silent in the face of changes in medical standards and technology that assault life. We have prescribed and fulfilled prescriptions for drugs we knew worked in a statistically significant number of cases (or normally) as abortifacients. On our visits to the hospital or nursing home, we have turned a blind eye to the pneumonia that is not being treated with an antibiotic...
(David) Read this story in the New York Times on a handicapped young man hastened to death by a transplant surgeon and realize:
I think it's an open question whether organ donation when a person is near death is ethically permissible. Perhaps it can be construed as a person giving his life for another, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. But parents and guardians who have medical professionals come to them for the right to harvest organs from loved ones need to be very careful in thinking their decision through. Except in cases of catastrophic trauma the situation will usually be some permutation of the case described in the NYT article.
(Tim, w/thanks to Carole) A few months ago, our local newspaper carried an article on how many local pharmacies and pharmacists were exercising their consciences by not carrying or fulfilling prescriptions for morning-after pills that work by killing the unborn child. Newspaper journalist Dan Denny ended his article with a quote from Jerry Frederick, a well-known former Indiana University staff worker for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship who now works as a pharmacist at the Kroger on Bloomington's west side.
Some pharmacists have refused to dispense the morning-after pills... Meghan Glynn, spokeswoman for Kroger's corporate office, said if a Kroger sales associate indicates in writing, in advance, that he or she has a moral objection to dispensing Plan B contraception, the person can arrange for another associate to provide the customer with the pills.
Jerry Frederick, an evangelical Christian and pharmacist at Kroger West in Bloomington, likes that policy.
"I don't think it's appropriate for a pharmacist to push his morality onto another person," he said...
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(Tim) Pastor Gary Knapp of East Gate Presbyterian Church (PCA) passed along this news item concerning a mother, Edith Towers, who is trying to use Delaware nurses, doctors, and courts to murder her 23 year old daughter, Lauren Marie Richardson, who needs a feeding tube to live.
Ms. Richardson is responsive to family members and a dog. It's likely she could be taught to feed herself, but her mother assures everyone that her daughter wouldn't want to live this way.
Yet, while on the feeding tube, Lauren carried her baby girl to term and gave birth to her. The little girl's grandmother, though, isn't allowing the child to see her mother; or the mother her child.
Ms. Richardson has no living will or advanced health care directive indicating she wants to be killed, but her mother says she and her daughter had exchanged promises that they would not allow anyone to keep them alive in such circumstances. So Edith Towers is trying to get doctors and lawyers to help her starve her daughter to death, to murder her granddaughter's mother.
In a reverse image of the Terry Schiavo case, it's Ms. Richardson's father who is trying to save his daughter's life...
(Tim) Last Sunday, about two hundred believers went to the Monroe County Courthouse on the Square to protest the slaughter of the unborn. This protest is held each year to memorialize the fifty million--that's 50,000,0000--babies that have been slaughtered under the protection of our Supreme Court's blood lust known as Roe v. Wade. That's sixteen thousand, eight hundred and twelve times the number of deaths caused by the nineteen terrorists on 9/11.
Here in Monroe County, six hundred and seventy-six infants were murdered by Planned Parenthood and its hired guns in 2005, the most recent year stats are available.
Show up at this protest and you'll witness the anemic witness to Jesus Christ that prevails the rest of the year in this community. Five or so from Evangelical Community Church (less than one percent); five or so from our evangelical megachurch, Sherwood Oaks (less than a quarter of a percent); thirty to fifty from the various Roman Catholic parishes (less than one percent); a smattering from each of a number of other churches; five or ten from the Reformed Presbyterian Church; the occasional vegan or atheist who agrees with Nat Hentoff that "For an atheist, life is all we have;" and the remainder from Church of the Good Shepherd.
No, I'm not bragging; I'm shaming. It's unconscionable that Christians are silent year in and year out as babies are slaughtered in our fair city. When I used to preach at Evangelical Community Church, if I mentioned abortion in the sermon the wife of one of our elders would stand up and parade out of the sanctuary...
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(Tim) On the occasion of the thirty-fifth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, I post this message given at Indiana's State Capital several years ago. It would please me if you would take the time to read it. Thank you.
I remain amazed that abortion could even become a political issue in a country with pretensions to being civilized. It is as if we were to debate the merits of legalizing cannibalism, with the liberal side chanting the slogan "Keep government out of the kitchen!"
There is no danger that the other side will ever be persuaded that it is wrong; there is, however, the very real danger that we will become discouraged, worn down, and inured to an evil that should always horrify and sicken us. The erosion of our consciences is surely part of the destructiveness of this abominable "procedure." -Joe Sobran
The Lord's Throne Is In Heaven
Indiana State House
On the Thirty-First Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
January 22, 2004
(For the choir director; a psalm of David.) In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain; for, behold, the wicked bend the bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string to shoot in darkness at the upright in heart. If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?" The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD'S throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men. The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked, and the one who loves violence His soul hates. Upon the wicked He will rain snares; fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup. For the LORD is righteous, He loves righteousness; the upright will behold His face. (Psalm 11:1-7)
Thirty one years ago today, on January 22nd, 1973, the Supreme Court of these United States issued its infamous ruling, Roe v. Wade, in which the Court declared that a mother's intentional killing of her unborn child was a fundamental right guaranteed under our Constitution. Since that ruling, it has been a commonplace to observe that Roe v. Wade, the Court's repeal of the laws prohibiting abortion on the books of all fifty states, was simply the exercise of raw judicial power with a legal justification based upon a mist and a vapor--or as the Court itself might put it, an emanation from a penumbra.
Our Supreme Court: intentionally conniving at murder...
Since 1973, no one has made a name for himself defending Roe. v. Wadeâs history, biology, ethics, logic, or justice; and only a few have been foolish enough to claim this ruling will stand the test of time...
(Tim, thanks to David L.) There's so much that needs to be said about these murdered children and their so-called mothers and fathers, but I'll restrain myself and only point out that this manly sheriff, Frank Anderson, said what needed to be said about their murderer(s):
Sheriff Frank Anderson asked the public to help police find the killers and vowed to track them down “like dogs.”“We’re not going to stop until we find you and put you in a cage where you belong,” Anderson said. “There’s a special place in hell for you, and we’re going to see that you get there.”
Reading Sheriff Anderson's warning, I wondered when the last time anyone in my congregation (or any other reformed congregation, for that matter) had heard the word 'hell' spoken, let alone a warning that someone in particular would be sent there by God?
(Tim) Earlier this morning, I received this E-mail from a young man in our church who's here in Bloomington pursuing a graduate degree at Indiana University. Among the many excellent things the souls of CGS are known for in this community--things such as hard work, respect for authority, academic accomplishment in their disciplines, adopting special needs children--we are also known for publicly protesting the slaughter of more than six hundred little babies each year here in our downtown area by Planned Parenthood and the ghoulish executioners they've hired. We call out to those going into the executioners' chambers pleading with them not to kill their babies. We offer them love and help, particularly financial help, so they can carry their baby to term. (And we have a young man growing up in our church whose mother took us up on that offer.)
Another form of protest used is the display of large-format color pics of murdered babies, typically held at the most public entrance to IU at the foot of Kirkwood Street known as Sample Gates. Below you will find questions our brother is asking about this display. I asked him if he would be willing for me to put his questions up publicly on the blog for the response of our readers, and he was happy for me to do so.
One request: It's very difficult to discuss any aspect of the slaughter of the unborn without the discussion becoming quite emotional. Let's do our best to assume the best about one another in this discussion. But whatever the tone of the debate, my friend and I do think the debate will be helpful to many. So have at it, brothers and sisters!
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A friend of mine brought it to my attention that some folks from CGS sometimes display images of aborted babies when they protest on the streets. I had seen these protests near campus before, but didn't know who was doing them.
If these are indeed people from CGS, I'd like to let you know about a misgiving I have about this manner of protest...
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(Tim) My dear brother Jake writes:
Here's an article from the LA Times on the guilty consciences of men responsible for abortions, and their attempt to make abortion a "we issue" instead of a "women's issue."
Mark Morrow, a Christian post-abortive father who works as a counselor, "described his regret as sneaking up on him in midlife--more than a decade after he impregnated three girlfriends (one of them twice) in quick succession in the late 1980s. All four pregnancies ended in abortion."
Years later, when his wife told him she was pregnant, "I suddenly realized that I had four dead children," said Morrow, 47, who lives near Erie, Pa. "I hadn't given it a thought. Now it all came crashing down on me--look what you've done."
A few months ago, Morrow reached out to the ex-girlfriend who aborted twice. They met and prayed together, seeking peace. After they parted, she spilled her anger in a letter: "That long day we sat in that God-forsaken clinic, I hoped every moment that you would stand up and say, 'We can't do this'. . . but you didn't."
(David) The last paragraph of this article in the New York Times on patients living longer in hospice care (thus costing hospices large sums of money) is an unfortunate reminder of the warped incentive hospices have: 1) to diagnose patients as terminally ill, and then; 2) to have them die within a relatively short period of time.
Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. (James 1:27)
(Tim) Susan Wicklund flies across the western plain states, from city to city, making money by murdering unborn children. Thus, to the New York Times she’s a heroine. And the publication of her autobiography is an occasion for celebration.
In her book, Wicklund shamelessly recounts her crimes claiming they’re really compassion for the “underserved.” What a fearful thing it is when a nation has lost any concept of shame.
Trying to justify living off the blood of babies, Ms. Wicklund points out that the killing of unborn children in the womb is so common today that 40 percent of American women have at least one abortion during their fertile years. Abortion is more common than the extraction of wisdom teeth.
So, good pastor, is this why you don’t preach or pray against abortion...
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(Tim) Although it's something of a relief to know Ms. DeGeneres loves a good cry, doesn't it seem like we've all gone mad?
Yes, the Baylys have a dog we like a lot. So I'm not putting dogs down, figuratively or literally.
Back in 1976, though, I remember reading an essay by an early church father lambasting the believers of his time for fawning over their dogs, feeding them well but not giving a rip about the babies exposed and dying on the slopes of the Roman Empire.
Yes, I know believers of that time often took those little ones in, saving them from slavery, prostitution, and death. Yet the essay was directed at Christians--not pagans.
So what about today? What about us...
(Tim) Check out this two-page ad that appeared in the New York Times' Sunday magazine two weeks ago. If foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, what, pray tell, is brazen inconsistency? On the other hand, perhaps the explanation is simply that the firewall between the Times' advertising and editorial departments is alive and well.
And while we're nitpicking, when did female actors become "actresses" again?
(Tim) From a Reuters article, this lead-in:
Poland's conservative government blocked EU plans to create a European day against the death penalty, saying any such event should also condemn abortion and euthanasia...
Praise God for Poland, Ireland, and Malta. (Thanks, Nick.)
(Tim) Two months ago I put up a post calling churches to show up where babies are being killed in their community or city, speaking up for the little ones being slaughtered there. In that post I promised I would get information to anyone wanting to know how to undertake such a ministry. When several inquired, I dropped the ball. I'm sorry.
This morning, Lucas Weeks (one of those involved in this ministry here at Church of the Good Shepherd) posted the following comment under that previous post. I'm reposting it here assuming some who won't check under the old post will see it here and will take encouragement from Lucas' instructions to begin this witness. Remember that when the Twelve tried to shoo the wee ones away from Jesus, assuming his ministry to adults was too important to mess with kids, He rebuked them: “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” (Matthew 19:14)...
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(Tim)
Whatever brand of Christian faith author John Grisham adheres to, it's compatible with supporting a presidential candidate who defends the bloody murder of unborn babies safely nestled in their mothers' wombs. Grisham said his fundraising dinner for the candidate was "more than an endorsement." A far cry from The Testament's Rachel Lane, I'd say.
In the run-up to his fundraiser, Grisham had this to say about the Bush administration: "I've always thought that they were bad people with evil intent - and all that, it's playing out now," he said. "I can't stand those people - and their incompetence is astounding."
(by Tim) Yoohoo! Earth to Richmond! Someone needs to speak up for Michael Vick and tell all the wackos outside the courthouse dissing him that he has the right to do what he wants with his dog. If he wants to electrocute or shoot his pit bull, that's his choice and some group of old white men have no right making laws against it, let alone arresting and making a public spectacle of him before the watching world.
I mean, Vick isn't forcing anyone else to electrocute their dog. He's just exercising his very personal choice to do what he wants with his own dog.
Think about it. Any idiot can see dogs aren't fully persons. They can't write or converse or take philosophy courses. In fact, aside from Princeton's Peter Singer, few people in their right minds would put a dog on the same level even as an unborn or newborn child. And there's no law against killing babies, is there?
It's hypocrisy for the PETA wackos to have a hissy-fit over Vick electrocuting his dog while, at the same time, defending his right to use knives to cut up, and then an Electrolux to suck out of his wife's womb, his unborn baby.
And really, think of all the unwanted dogs wandering city streets...
(by Tim) Every Christian church with an abortuary in its city should organize themselves and other believers so that any time that killing place is open for murder, the people of God are present as witnesses against the bloodshed. There should always be men and women of God outside speaking up for the orphans and calling the mothers, fathers, girlfriends, grandmothers, doctors, security guards, and everyone else with blood-covered hands to repentance.
If our church has no such ministry, it's doubtful we would have picked up the children of the ancient Roman Empire whose fathers left them exposed to die. Nor would we have spoken up against the ovens of Auschwitz. Nor are we likely to adopt African AIDS orphans, or even non-Anglo or special needs children from the US. In fact, there's a whole host of things we would never do. Too messy.
We may be committed to supporting the crisis pregnancy center. That's good, but it's secondary. First, we must oppose the slaughter.
Did you ever notice this statement of Job's godliness?
I broke the jaws of the wicked And snatched the prey from his teeth. (Job 29:17)
Where is such godliness in the reformed church today?
For years, our church has had faithful women and men, organized in their witness, who call out...
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Back in 1992, I was on the board of Presbyterians Pro-Life and worked with our Executive Director, Mrs. Herb (Terry) Schlossberg, to plan and host a consultation on abortion held at Princeton Seminary. The consultation was titled “Abortion and the Marks of the Church” and the keynote speaker was Richard John Neuahaus. The consulation’s content was later compiled by Mrs. Schlossberg and Dr. Elizabeth Achtemeier and released by Eerdmans under the title, Not My Own: Abortion and the Marks of the Church.
Of all the papers given, I remember only one thing said that weekend. Fr. Neuhaus was talking about the refusal of the deathmongers to admit abortion killed a human being in his mother’s womb. And having made the point, he asked the rhetorical questions, “Well, after all, it’s living, isn’t it? And if it’s living, what is it if it’s not a human being? A mouse? A dog? A monkey?”
I was reminded of Neuhaus’ questions today while reading this article about the debate in the UK over whether the creation of chimeras—fertilized ovums that are partially man and partially animal—will be allowed; and if allowed, whether they will be implanted in their mother’s womb.
The New York Times sees evidence for "growth" among baby boomers taking over the reigns of leadership from aging evangelicals such as Dr. James Dobson (71), Chuck Colson (75), and the late Pastor Jerry Falwell. But while noting younger evangelicals are "more accepting" of sodomy than older evangelicals, the Times retains some pessimism toward the electoral change it seeks, admitting with some chagrin that "on abortion, (younger evangelicals) remain almost as conservative as their parents." The Times concludes by pointing out that this cross-generational stability in opposing abortion is "fodder for both political parties to weigh as they consider the future."
It's apparent the Democratic Party has started to get it on abortion, nakedly opportunistic as their getting it is when Sen. Chuck Schumer is leading the way. It's also apparent the Republican Party is selling its birthright for a mess of potage.
(Thanks, Mark.)
The inevitable has finally happened at Amnesty International: its International Executive Committee (IEC) has changed the organization's position on abortion, adopting a new position on Sexual and Reproductive Rights that commits them to abortion advocacy.
They've tried to hide this change, but they've failed.
So spread the word.
(Thanks, Kamilla.)
Here's an update from our friend on the "Please pray" post below:
But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron... (1 Timothy 4:1, 2)
For years, I've been an electronic subscriber to Joe Sobran's essays and newsletter. This from the essay recceived today:
Abortion and nuclear weapons have lost much of their power to horrify. Like Macbeth, we "have supped full with horrors," except that Macbeth still realizes what he has done and knows what should horrify him.
The modern world's case is worse. When you habitually violate your principles, you don't just harden your conscience; you risk losing it altogether. You even wind up forgetting what your principles used to be.
May the Holy Spirit keep our consciences tender--as tender as the skin of a newborn baby.
(Actually posted by Tim.)
Check out this article by Cal Thomas comparing the media's treatment of the Virginia Tech victims with its treatment of the victims of partial birth abortion.
Just received this E-mail from a Christian brother in another city who asks for prayer. Would you all please join me in praying for this young man, his girlfriend, and their baby?
While eating breakfast this morning at a local cafe I overheard two young men discussing the recent pregnancy of one's girlfriend. The "father" was advising his girlfriend to take RU486 and eliminate the "problem" before "it became a baby." His chivalry was amazing as he had offered to "split" the cost of the pill with her, which he believed to be about $35.00. Needless to say I no longer enjoyed my breakfast. I confronted the "father" and explained to him that there was already a baby involved and that God would only be pleased if the baby was not aborted. I gave him my phone number and told him that (my wife) and I would take care of the girlfriend, the birth and the baby if he wanted to avoid killing the baby. Please pray today for God's conviction on his and his girlfriend's lives and that this baby will be saved. Although timid and uneducated in reproduction, the other young man at the table agreed with me and appeared to be encouraging the "father" to take the advice.
Defenders of the unborn should rejoice, today, at the 5-4 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the federal ban on the gruesome practice of partial-birth abortion.
Here's a summary of the facts leading up to the decision, along with the major details of the decision, itself. Here's the majority opinion, authored by Justice Kennedy. Here's the concurring opinion, authored by Justice Thomas and joined by Justice Scalia. And here's the dissent, authored by Injustice Ginsburg and joined by Injustices Stevens, Souter, and Breyer.
Check out this CNN article on the efforts of Childrens Hospital of Austin (Texas) to hasten the death of seventeen month old child, Emilio Gonzales, against the wishes of Emilio's mother, Catarina.
(Thanks, Nick.)
One more incremental step that would be excellent, but it seems unlikely the Democrat's Party of Death would allow it through given the stark reality it would bring to bear on the end of each of these little ones.
If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night," Even the darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You. For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them. (Psalms 139:11-16)(Jesus said) "See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven." (Matthew 18:10)
Here's a link to the most beautiful pictures ever taken of unborn children, powerfully visible through the recent technological innovation of very high frequency, four-dimensional ultrasounds. Indeed, we are fearfully and wonderfully made! Meanwhile, each year, like clockwork, between 1.3 and 1.5 million of these precious unborn children are slaughtered while safely curled up in their mothers' wombs. Which makes me think...
While in Chicago for Christmas, Taylor and I went to the Museum of Science and Industry one afternoon. We were wowed by the more than five thousand square foot model train set with much of the Chicago skyline built to scale.
As always, though, the highlight of my visit was walking down the row of unborn children on exhibit in aquarium-like containers mounted at head height down the length of a very long wall, maybe twenty-five or so in all, from the first days of conception to full term. Some find the exhibit ghoulish and I can't say I blame them. These are, after all, the bodies of living souls who bore God's image and likeness, and their nakedness in death is there on display.
But for myself, once again I thought about what a powerful witness to the unborn these little ones are there in the midst of all the gewgaws of technology...
In a coffee shop just now, at a table of three women and one man, there's a LOUD conversation going on between the women. I've noticed the volume but not the words, until just now...
One of the women just said:
"This summer I thought I was pregnant. I wasn't taking my birth control pills on schedule. So like, that night I was punching my stomach saying,
"Die, baby, DIE!"
Raucous laughter and they were off on another subject.
I look over at the man. About twenty, he sits at the table, on the sidelines, with hunched shoulders and a timid air. Not a word from him. Ever.
He just waits, silently. For what?
Missouri voters will be asked today to vote on a ballot initiative called "Amendment 2" that seems to have been written in an intentionally deceptive way to mislead voters into supporting the very thing they thought they were opposing.
The long and short of it is this: If you believe man's intrinsic value comes from his uniqueness within all creation being the only creature made in God's Own Image; and that just the same as all other biological life, the life of an unborn baby does not begin at quickening or after being born, but at the moment of conception; then you should vote "no" on Amendment 2.
Here's why. This excellent analysis of Amendment 2 was done by Professor David C. Jones of Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis. Reading it will not only make clear to Missourians why Christians must vote against this amendment, but also it will warn us all of the increasingly difficult work we have in front of us as we work to oppose the new and crassly utilitarian ethic that permeates our culture in its approach to human life at its most vulnerable moments. So do the work and let Professor Jones teach you.
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MISSOURI STEM CELL RESEARCH AND CURES INITIATIVE: AN ETHICAL ANALYSIS
by David Clyde Jones: Professor of Theology and Ethics at Covenant Theological Seminary
Presented at Kirkwood Baptist Church in Kirkwood, Missouri, on October 15, 2006
Usually when we go to the polls in November it is primarily to elect candidates that we believe will best represent public policy positions we think are for the common good. If the candidates we vote for become our elected representatives, then we can take on the role of backbenchers--egging them on to take stands on controversial issues (and letting them take the heat when they meet opposition), or shouting them down when we feel they stray too far in their inevitable need to compromise to get something actually done.
Not this year. On election day this November Missouri voters are being asked to resolve by ballot one of the most profound ethical dilemmas of our time: Whether it is right to make and take the life of human embryos for biomedical research...
Not to canonize Mother Theresa, but when Brit journalist, Christopher Hitchens, attacked her in the most vile manner several years back, I noted his name and haven't forgotten his day of infamy. A couple days ago, then, I was disappointed to have a dear friend who serves as a pastor in the liberal Presbyterian Church (USA) E-mail me another attack on Mother Theresa by this same Hitchens. Responding to my friend, I wondered exactly how to sum up this evil that is Hitchens.
Fear not, Joe Sobran is up to the task. This from the latest (October 26, 2006) issue of the Roman Catholic weekly newspaper, The Wanderer:
Village AtheistChristopher Hitchens, a vitriolic former Trotskyite, has shocked his old leftist comrades by joining the neocons and becoming an equally vitriolic defender of the Iraq war. He's also a militant atheist and has written a forthcoming book attacking religion. "Religion poisons everything," as he told a recent interviewer. A naturalized Englishman, he seems to be making his niche as our national village atheist.
Hitchens fancies himself an apostle of reason, which he sees as menaced by the superstitions of faith. Just to answer him at his own level, the atheistic regimes of the 20th century didn't do his cause much credit. If anything, Stalin, Mao, and their ilk proved that if a ruler doesn't acknowledge God, he's apt to try to make himself a god. And his attributes may not conspicuously include mercy.
A few years ago Hitchens wrote that the Catholic Church, in the Middle Ages, killed "millions." He didn't offer a source for this impressive (if somewhat vague) statistic; maybe he got it from the same place where Dan Brown learned that the Church had burned five million women as witches.
It takes some gall to dismiss so huge an area of human life as religious experience, especially when you evidently know nothing about it, except by hostile caricature. There is nothing quite like the credulity of the skeptic who is ready to believe any lie about the Church.
Consider the notorious Spanish Inquisition, still the staple of anti-Catholic polemics. Never mind that it was a government operation. It lasted over three centuries and killed fewer people than Stalin killed, on average, per day, roughly 5,000 in all. My purpose is not to defend it, but to restore a sense of proportion...
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Imagine a country dotted with places called "clinics" where doctors and nurses are paid to use knives and vacuum cleaners to kill babies at the rate of 1.3 million babies per year, each year since 1973. Then imagine that a few of these doctors were shot, four or five fatally, and subsequent investigations revealed the assassins intended their killing to help protect the little babies these doctors had been killing.
Across the country, a great hue and cry went out against these assassins. Everyone was agreed: "These man are murderers and ought to be executed or given life without parole." The national media spoke of the assassins being "misguided zealots" motivated by their "fundamentalist religious faith," and lots of interviews with the heroic abortionists and their terror-stricken wives were published and broadcast, showing the terrible impact the assassins were having on their lives.
But none of the media ran an interview with any of the 1.3 million babies murdered by these doctors that year, nor with any of the little victims' fathers or mothers or brothers or sisters or grandparents. Interviews were impossible because all the babies' mothers went into hiding before they hired their child's murderer. The murders were always done in secret so it was impossible to find the names and families of the murder victims. A few of the babies--very, very few--survived the doctors' knives, but these little ones couldn't go on a talk show to describe their suffering and narrow escape because they were too young to remember the terror.
Strangely, the loudest voices condemning the couple of assassins who had taken shots at baby-killing doctors were other pro-lifers who said things like: "How are we ever going to change the laws when a couple of lunatics are giving all of us a bad name? We're not going to have any success as long as pro-lifers have a reputation for violence. You can't fight violence with violence."
Yet an objective comparison of fatalities immediately clarified the matter:
Babies dead per year: 1,300,000
Doctors dead per year: 1 (or maybe just one half)
What is more, the violence done to pro-lifers has always been much, much more significant than the violence done by pro-lifers...
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The first to plead his case seems right, Until another comes and examines him. (Proverbs 18:17)
Dr. Kyle Swan of the Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, forwarded to us a link to an article that ran this year in the Journal of Medical Ethics titled, "The Rhythm Method and Embryonic Death." The article's author, L. Bovins of the London School of Economics and Political Science, seeks to show the absurdity of pro-lifers' concerns about the lives of very young unborn children--specifically a fertilized egg traveling towards the uterus, seeking the shelter of his mother's womb. Here's the short summary of Bovins' argument:
Some proponents of the pro-life movement argue against morning after pills, IUDs, and contraceptive pills on grounds of a concern for causing embryonic death. What has gone unnoticed, however, is that the pro-life line of argumentation can be extended to the rhythm method of contraception as well. Given certain plausible empirical assumptions, the rhythm method may well be responsible for a much higher number of embryonic deaths than some other contraceptive techniques.
How does Bovins demonstrate that the practice of periodic abstinence of sexual intercourse (natural family planning) causes the deaths of unborn children?
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When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square, the young men saw me and hid themselves, and the old men arose and stood. The princes stopped talking and put their hands on their mouths; the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to their palate. For when the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it gave witness of me, because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the orphan who had no helper. The blessing of the one ready to perish came upon me, and I made the widow's heart sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; My justice was like a robe and a turban. I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case which I did not know. I broke the jaws of the wicked and snatched the prey from his teeth. (Job 29:7-17)
George Campbell has died and this Scripture is a fitting memorial to his godliness. Taking Mr. Campbell as an example, if your church is in a city or town where babies are murdered, you need to determine that there will always be men from your church practicing godliness by picketing outside the killing place, witnessing against this great evil.
Back when I was serving as pastor of Evangelical Community Church here in Bloomington, there were a number of professors and administrators in my congregation, but no witness against abortion at the church or on campus. So when the opportunity presented itself I preached on abortion, but I also regularly picketed the abortuary and encouraged others to join me there.
When possible, I tried to take my children along and it was always a great encouragment to have them there. Usually there were one or two of us from ECC, the Worrals from a local Baptist church, and a Free Methodist brother named J. D. Ellis whose brother, Tim Ellis, is a local commercial real estate agent and rents the abortuary their building. But the only churches with a significant number of members witnessing there were the local Roman Catholic parishes.
Among the Roman Catholics, my favorite was an older man named George T. Campbell. He was blind and sat in a chair holding a protest sign each Thursday, the killing day. Congenial and polite, we talked every now and then.
Since the abortuary is near a light on the main north-south artery down the middle of the city, it's not unusual to have drivers encourage us in our work. They honk and wave; on cold winter mornings sometimes they even bring coffee over from Wendy's.
Others flash obscene gestures and curse.
Talking with George on day, he told me a young man in a pickup truck had turned to look at him out his driver's side window as he drove by. Furious at George, he was cursing him. Then he stuck his arm out the window to give George the finder when... BANG! He'd been so intent on wishing George a bad day that he'd not paid attention to the light turning yellow and red, and he rear-ended the car in front of him.
Without any malice, George shook with his chuckles.
All of us who have picketed have been inspired by George. His faithful and godly witness was there outside the killing place to the end. May he rest in peace...
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Note: In the discussion under the post, Why Christians Oppose Embryonic Stem Cell Research, a reader asked for biblical reasons to oppose abortion. Reading his question, I remembered this message presented fifteen years ago at the invitation of Blackhawk Presbytery of the mainline Presbyterian Church (USA). I'm hopeful he and others will find it helpful.
The Bible and Abortion
Blackhawk Presbytery
Presbyterian Church (USA)
January 10, 1989
God's Word the Bible tells us that human beings are unique--different from all the rest of creation, including the animals--because we alone are made to be like God. God's Word tells us in Genesis 1:27:
So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created Him; male and female He created them. (Genesis 1:27)
Every man and woman, boy and girl, shares the image of God. And this is the heart of the reason why God forbids murder. The sixth commandment is "Thou shalt not murder" (Exodus 20:13). And the reason we are not to murder is that we are all, every one of us, ...made in His image and likeness. In fact, the life of man is so precious to God that He commanded Noah as follows:
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man. (Genesis 9:6)
Life, man's life, is precious to God and since we claim to be His children we ought also to hold it as precious. Therefore the first thing that demands our attention, before any other aspect of the abortion problem, is the status of the little body tucked away in the mother's womb...
My friend David Talcott points out that Bloomington is not child-safe. Monroe County (Bloomington's home) has the lowest fertility rate of any county in Indiana. By a lot. A lot. In 2003, there were 1,229 live births in Monroe County but 784 abortions. For every three babies born in Monroe County, two more are murdered in their mothers' wombs.
Let it be carefully noted, though, that Bloomington is also the home of state legislator, Peggy Welch, who sponsored a child booster seat law that saves, arguably, one child's life on Indiana highways each year...
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A reader of my previous post expressing gratitude that President Bush vetoed the stem cell bill writes:
I REALLY REALLY don't see the 'morality' in being opposed to stem-cell research. My friends' 6 year old boy who has cancer happens to find this veto very disheartening.
Save your breath, I already know what your all going to say. I've heard all the objections. Just try not to be so rigid with this subject in public. You never know what illnesses people are facing and the depression they cause. They are going through enough pain, they don't need Christians singing a victory song that their disease will remain uncurable.
Christians oppose embryonic stem cell research (ESCR), not adult stem cell research, because we do not believe it's right to kill a child, even a very, very, very young child. Or rather, especially a very, very, very young child. Such a child is the very picture of helplessness and must depend upon the law for protection, not being able to do a thing to defend himself. And the younger, the more helpless he is.
So to kill such a child and use his body to do research that may, one day, lead to the cure of another child's illness is the worst form of oppression--hugely worse than simple chattel slavery.
Such tactics may salve the consciences of those who want their unborn child dead and are pleased his death may have some redemptive value through contributing to scientific research. Such tactics may also be advocated by parents of a living child who has an incurable disease in the hope that a cure for their child's disease may be found by the experiments that will be carried out on the aborted child's body. But contemplating the first child's murder, Christians come to a screeching halt and say "No!"
Christians don't kill one child in the hope of finding a cure for another child. Ever. And civilized states don't do it either.
Even if the child's murder were directly curative, Christians don't murder one defenseless child to heal another. Ever. And civilized states don't do it either.
It's completely understandable that parents go to any length to end their child's suffering, but it's the privilege of the parents' friends, relatives, and brothers and sisters in Christ to come alongside them in their time of weakness, reminding them, "Thus says the Lord: Thou shalt not murder."
Scripture says "Greater love has no man than this, that a man will lay down his life for his friend." Not "Greater love has no man than this: that a man will lay down the life of his friend's child for the sake of his own child."
I'm displeased that it's the first veto he's ever cast, but thankful--very, very thankful--he did cast it.
Note: This was just forwarded to me by Shelly Connell. What boldness for the Lord and His little ones! Praise God for Ms. Gianna Jessen and Colorado Representative Ted Harvey.
Ted Harvey, not Paul HarveyTo all interested parties,
I want to share with you an awesome experience I recently had in the Colorado House of Representatives. It is a humbling experience to look back and realize that God used me to play a role in His divine orchestration.
As I was leaving the House chambers for the weekend when our Democrat Speaker of the House mentioned that the coming Monday would be the final day of this year's General Assembly. He went on to state that there were still numerous resolutions on the calendar which we would need to be addressed prior to the summer adjournment. Interestingly, he specifically mentioned that one of the resolutions we would be hearing was being carried by the House Majority Leader Alice Madden, honoring the 90th anniversary of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains.
As a strong pro-life legislator I was disgusted by the idea that we would pass a resolution honoring this 90 year legacy of genocide. I drove home that night wondering what I could say that might pierce the darkness during the debate on this heinous resolution...
A beautiful post by Bob Bixby commemorating the death of Terri Schiavo in the form of letter to a friend with PVS written a year ago as Terri lay dying--being murdered under c
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