We’ve all heard Christians say that while their religion might say abortion is wrong, they can’t force their religion on others. That’s the out they give themselves. But Reverend Matthew Westfox of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice goes one step further by actually twisting one of Jesus’ parables into a pro-abortion defense. He did so in an article on his reflections on Easter.
May 9, 2011 at 4:56 am
Whoa… eerily similar to the Timmy Kirk character from the HBO series "OZ" (his outlook as well as his look)
http://goo.gl/v8TdW
May 9, 2011 at 1:29 pm
He is so cute and fuzzy one would never dream that he actually advocates killing the creative life force already developing within using means of cruelty and torture simply because one decides after the child is already created that conditions are not suitable for the child to continue to then exist outside of the womb.
Still there are so many people waiting to adopt domestically. If one decides that conditions aren't suitable, then, others are ready to step up to provide the "suitable conditions" to let the life live.
May 9, 2011 at 4:13 pm
@mary helen: I know one such woman who eats her heart out to adopt. Victims of violent rape ought to be provided for under the Violent Crimes Victims's Compensation Board. Let the Board provide for all the care necessary to protect our nation for condemning to death, the execution of capital punisment, of the newly begotten human being, for the crimes of his parents. Abortion is called the Culture of Death, but abortion is really the end of civilization. Our nation needs to step up and provide for the victims and let the morally and legally innocent children be adopted if still not wanted. I will take them.
May 9, 2011 at 6:30 pm
So if we were still living in the days of government-dictated segregation, this would be the guy who would be saying to congregations, "Spit on the little girl who is coming to the school…with the federal escort…"? Lord save us from preachers whose clever words affirm the status quo.
If he was honest, and courageous, then, he would be saying, if conditions for the parenting as we most prefer it aren't suitable (Lord, won't you give me a mercedes benz…) then what is 9 months out of a lifetime? Let the life live and let the life be loved and parented by those who are able. When are we ever fully materially ready and completely equipped to perfectly parent? It obviously did not stop Mary and Joseph.