Controversial memo on abortion from a CEO of a large airline

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To: All (company deleted) Associates
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RE: Company update for 10-6-06

Good afternoon. Sorry for not publishing my update last week but I have been considering writing a controversial letter for a while and have been prayerfully deliberating my words. After much internal struggle, I have decided to publish it and take the heat. What pushed me over the top was a headline I read last week that the loss of American lives in Afghanistan and Iraq now exceeds the loss of American lives experienced in the 9-11 attacks. I suppose the idea the media would like to convey is that the Bush Administration’s policies in the Middle East are flawed and are leading to more American casualties than simply allowing terrorists to operate unchallenged in the world. I don’t want to get started on a rant against the
liberal media in this country, nor do I want to become a Bush apologist (clearly there is much that should be open for debate there) but seriously there are many other ways that thousands of American’s die each year and none for as noble a cause as replacing a dictator with democracy
or oppression with freedom.

However, if the news media is truly concerned with the loss of American lives, then why don’t I see more written about the tragic and totally avoidable loss of 4,000 American lives every day to bortion? I would like to read how our country’s leadership and citizenry are mobilizing against
this genocidal assault on the unborn. Can you imagine what we would do if every day we opened the paper and read about how 4,000 babies were needlessly killed in America, today and everyday to come, until we as a nation have the courage to protect those who can not protect themselves?
I was at a right to life dinner a few weeks ago and the speaker quoted Mother Teresa in a speech she gave in Washington several years ago. It was provocative to say the least. Let me share a few passages with you.

“… I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love and remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.
Jesus gave even His life to love us. So, the mother who is thinking of abortion should be helped to love, that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.
And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.”

It’s that last line that really caught my attention. When we see school kids killing other schools kids it really rings true that we are cultivating a culture of death in this country when we should be orking to create a culture of life. Can we really be surprised or shocked by what we see appening with increased frequency when we teach children and teens that they can “choose” hen to respect life and when to end it. have known women who have had abortions and to say their concerns end after the procedure
is completed is a sad misperception. Many women that have had abortions suffer serious, long term complications both physical and (more importantly) psychological. And is that really surprising? How distressing it must be to have to even consider making such a choice. And yet it
is the matter of “choice” that the liberal media would like to frame the debate. How can we deny a woman the right to “choose” what to do with her body?
 
We have turned sex in to a form of recreation or sport rather than an act of love between two people in a loving and committed material relationship. The possibility of life being created from this unselfish act of love should be welcomed not feared. By defining sex as a momentary act of pleasure without considering its natural, life-giving consequences is simply selfish; putting the needs of the individual over the needs of God and family. Having said that, the debate is not necessarily one of sexual freedom; nor imposing Christian morality on society. The debate is about the ability to take a human life. And as long as this country is unwilling to defend the most
vulnerable of its society, then we are all at risk. As the November elections approach, I ask you to prayerfully consider this important issue in your
selection of representatives you send to Congress. We can all agree that choice is yours to make.
 
That is good stuff. I hope he isn’t “thrown to the lions” like so many others that stand for christ!
 
Something tells me that even if he does not, he can stand on his judgement day with a clean conscience before God. I think it was a beautiful, loving testimony to life, and I only wish we could all have the courage to stand up for what’s right like that.
 
Something tells me that even if he does not, he can stand on his judgement day with a clean conscience before God. I think it was a beautiful, loving testimony to life, and I only wish we could all have the courage to stand up for what’s right like that.
It has inspired me to stand up for my beliefs! i don’t think i will be writing company wide memo’s but I will not back away from my God and his church!👍
 
So I didn’t see which airline I should always be flying from now until I no longer have money to fly…😉
 
Could we have a link please.
ok you asked for it. here is your airline education.

the airline is called Republic airways. they are the parent company for Chuataqua airlines, Shuttle America, and Republic.

Chuataqua flies for united, usairways, delta and continental as an express carrier. Republic flies for Us air as an express carrier and Shuttle america flies for United as an express carrier.

flychautauqua.com/

Here is a clip of their “vision” off the company website

VISION
We believe that every employee, regardless of personal beliefs or world-view, has been created in the image and likeness of God. We seek to become stronger from our diversity. We seek personal respect and fulfillment from our work. Most of all, we seek to recognize the dignity and potential of each member of our Republic Airways Holdings family.
 
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