Planned Parenthood Director Who Quit Now Rejected by Episcopalian Church

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Bryan, TX – The religious denominations that embrace abortion do so supposedly because they are tolerant and welcoming of people who disagree on issues like abortion. Yet, that is not proving to be the case for Abby Johnson, the former Planned parenthood director who quit after converting to the pro-life perspective.

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Wow 😦 So she acknowledges her sins, wants a Home, and is closed out? That is so sad 😦
 
Unbelievable! I can’t even imagine a church rejecting someone because they are pro-life.

How upside-down is that!?

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This article is rambling and vague. I’m not exactly sure what happened based on the article.
 
That is messed up. A church that is supposed to be christian has shut her out for standing up for the innocent.

She should become Catholic. We take a hard stance against abortion. Jesus would welcome her with open arms.
 
The pastor said this; “I do not intend to be dismissive,” the Rev. John Williams wrote the Times in an email, “but my pastoral responsibilities to this faith community preclude making public comments.”

i’m so glad Jesus didn’t let His pastoral responsibilities to His faith community preclude Him from making public comments!!!

i suspect, when we stand alone before God at our particular judgment, the excuse offered above when dealing with the holocaust of abortion in the US, 50 million murders of innocent babies will not cut it!!!

Is he a pastor (shepherd) or a politician? What a hypocrite!

Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Ora Pro Nobis Peccatoribus!

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Mark77 said:
The pastor said this; “I do not intend to be dismissive,” the Rev. John Williams wrote the Times in an email, “but my pastoral responsibilities to this faith community preclude making public comments.”

i’m so glad Jesus didn’t let His pastoral responsibilities to His faith community preclude Him from making public comments!!!
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It really depends on what the subject of public comments are. I would sincerly hope that any personal issues I discuss with my priest (whether in confession or not) would not be brought up in the media under the pretence of public comments.

Jesus didn’t shy away from telling people they were doing something wrong, but he certainly didn’t discuss it with unconcerned third parties.

It is as likely as anything that it is parishoners who are creating an uncomfortable environment, not the parish priest.
 
Hold on there a minute folks. I agree with a previous poster that this article is rather poorly written.

Johnson says that “some of the people there (at her Episcopal church) are not accepting” of her change of heart. Notice she said “some,” not “most” or “all.”

To say that she has been “rejected by her church” implies that she has been officially excommunicated or asked to leave, which does NOT seem to be the case.
 
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Hold on there a minute folks. I agree with a previous poster that this article is rather poorly written.

Johnson says that “some of the people there (at her Episcopal church) are not accepting” of her change of heart. Notice she said “some,” not “most” or “all.”

To say that she has been “rejected by her church” implies that she has been officially excommunicated or asked to leave, which does NOT seem to be the case.
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Important point. While it would have been nice for her church to applaud her pro-life move, it isn’t fair to judge the whole parish on the actions or attitudes of a few. In fact, when I and a friend started a pro-life group at our CATHOLIC parish we had some parishioners who were not accepting at all of what we wanted to do.
 
Middleman said:
This article is rambling and vague. I’m not exactly sure what happened based on the article.
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I agree. The article is not clear about the Church’s position, it only indicates that there are some in the church community that are unaccepting. The minister would not comment.

In any event, based on her comments about other communities rejecter her for being pro-choice, she should have no problem finding an accepting community now that she is pro-life.

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I think the signficance of this is that Episcopalians tend to hold themselves up as the ‘all welcoming, all inclusive’ church. They get many dissenting Catholics based on this theme.

However the truth is that the inclusiveness is really just inclusiveness of modernism, ‘progressivism,’ and typically left wing politicking. So the article is useful in showing that Episcopalians can be quite intolerant. Intolerant, incidentally, of core Christian morals.
 
KingTheoden said:
I think the signficance of this is that Episcopalians tend to hold themselves up as the ‘all welcoming, all inclusive’ church. They get many dissenting Catholics based on this theme.

However the truth is that the inclusiveness is really just inclusiveness of modernism, ‘progressivism,’ and typically left wing politicking. So the article is useful in showing that Episcopalians can be quite intolerant. Intolerant, incidentally, of core Christian morals.
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In this case, it wasn’t much of an example of all welcoming open arms to the former director. Of course, inclusivity and tolerance has its limits as well. Especially when it means having to stand for something.
 
Nine_Two said:
It really depends on what the subject of public comments are. I would sincerly hope that any personal issues I discuss with my priest (whether in confession or not) would not be brought up in the media under the pretence of public comments.

Jesus didn’t shy away from telling people they were doing something wrong, but he certainly didn’t discuss it with unconcerned third parties.

It is as likely as anything that it is parishoners who are creating an uncomfortable environment, not the parish priest.
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First of all, there is no such thing as an “unconcerned” third party when it come to murdering innocent babies. We will all have to answer Jesus when we die and He asks us "What did you do to help the least among you?"

"And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.’" (Mt 25:40)

**The excuse, “it was none of my business” will not cut it!
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Obviously, it is improper to discuss personal issues in public, but this pastor has not properly led his flock.

If he made it clear that murdering an innocent baby by abortion is always wrong, then no parishioner could have a problem with a Planned Parenthood director quitting because she realized she was participating in a grave evil. They should welcome her as a truly courageous witness to the love of Jesus Christ!

All too often, we are afraid to speak the Truth clearly and forcefully. Jesus never backed down, He told Peter, the man He chose and trained to lead His Church, when Peter rebuked Him; **"But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me; for you are not on the side of God, but of men.” (Mt 16:23)
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Jesus wasn’t afraid to hurt Peter’s feelings or to speak about people’s mistakes and sins to “unconcerned” people.

**Maybe we are called to challenge the “unconcerned”!

Shouldn’t we be more concerned about the murder of innocent babies than whether or not we offended some"unconcerned" person’s feelings?**

Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Ora Pro Nobis Peccatoribus!

mark
 
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