In today's culture, some phrases are more equal than others. They are received with reverence and awe because they loudly proclaim that the person who uttered the phrase is a highly evolved, intelligent and civilized person.
One of those phrases is: "I haven't decided who I'm going to vote for yet." Apparently, this is meant to indicate that the person is very carefully weighing all the issues and is not making a snap judgment. But that's not what I'm thinking about today.
Another phrase that is greeted with much celebration and ballyhoo is, "I don't have a litmus test for my choice of candidate." And if all issues held the same weight, that would be a very good thing. But not all issues are the same.
And so I am proclaiming along with Ray Comfort and a host of other intelligent, civilized, and highly evolved Americans that I do have a litmus test. I will not vote for someone who supports the murder of unborn children!.
Read Ray Comfort's outstanding article addressing this issue.
I saw on other blogs how people say much the same thing you refer to. How they are not single issue voters, how a pro-life president will not be able to do anything, anyway, how many politicians are pro-life not because they are pro-life but to get the votes, how nasty Republicans are getting, how so many Republicans claim pro-choice people cannot be Christians and how horrible that is, how this and how that. ANYTHING but holding front and center the stinking abomination that elective abortion is and always will be, no matter if the number done goes into the billions.
ReplyDeleteSome of these people, strangely enough, are vocally, and vehemently so, opposed to the spanking of children as a means of discipline.
The irony of their dismissal of abortion as an issue, in light of their vocal anti-spanking views, has galled me, along with other things I've read this election season, to the point I just pay as little as possible to any blog or news outlet until voting day.
Yes. Whether the infant is burned to death with a solution and then extracted, or whether this little baby has his or her brains evacuated and then is suctioned out, or however it is done, it is the legalized murder of an unborn human being.
Thank you for this post.
Lynne - I have noticed the same thing, and more so this election season than ever before. Christians seem quite willing to excuse away the abortion friendly stands of candidates that they lean toward supporting. In order to maintain that stance, they later feel like they have to accept the abortion friendly stands of even people they oppose.
ReplyDeleteThe seeming knee-jerk anti-spanking stance that the people you've mentioned are taking strikes me as a huge disconnect when I have heard some of them defend elective abortion even when it in no way endangers the mother's life. It's a shame and should not happen among those who claim Christ.
In the current presidential election, I truly do not see how any Christian can support a man who opposed a bill calling for medical support to be given to the infant victims of a botched abortion. Obama defended that by saying that a law requiring this was already on the books in Illinois, but that is not true. It was an assumption that could reasonably be made based on aspects of the Hippocratic oath, but it was not a civil law. He knew quite well what he was voting for and against.