ALL laws force beliefs on people. The fact that abortion is leglal degrades our culture, cheapens the value of life and has a detrimental effect on all of us. I have every right to try and make this barbaric practice illegal.
Right.
The thing is, too, that abortion is wrong. It is murder.
“legalizing” abortion forces a lie (that abortion, being ‘legal’, is not ‘wrong’–is a ‘legitimate’ belief). . .and places that ‘lie’ as being ‘truth’.
Any time you replace the truth with a lie you have forced that lie onto people–not just the people who reject it but the people who embrace it.
Any time you replace the truth with a lie you weaken every person, even if the person never personally ‘experiences’, say, an abortion.
Did you ever read John Donne’s “No man is an island?”
“Every man’s death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. . .and therefore never send to ask for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.”
John Donne wrote this in the early 17th century, nearly 400 years ago, but it rings as true today. All the deaths of those children have diminished us all. . .this ‘lie’ of ‘abortion rights’ has weakened this generation, not just in those who were killed but their parents who did the killing and those of us who have ‘stood by’. Yes, we’re talking about it, praying about it, sometimes even ‘standing up’ and going to jail for peacefully protesting about it. . .but still, we stand by. . .we are so weak in our faith that we aren’t ready to be martyred by society. Even on message boards too many “Christians” would rather look ‘tolerant’ and ‘intelligent’ by agreeing with society, rather than range themselves with the "God Squad’ who are painted as intolerant woman-hating freaks.
Well, here’s a woman who would rather be martyred in the ‘pillory of public ridicule’ and be falsely painted as the quintessence of stupid intolerant backward Christian craziness for ‘believing’ in a real, absolute God-given morality. Go ahead, throw the stones and blast me with the hate-filled rhetoric. Maybe if we have more ‘white martyrs’ willing to stand up for truth people will start listening. But the more we have so-called Christians oozing away or distancing themselves, the worse it’s going to be for them and society. Think we’re degraded compared to our parents and grandparents?
**Honey, y’all ain’t seen NOTHING yet. **I can’t even
imagine the depths of sin and horror that are going to be accepted if we keep going on the same merry hell-ward way we’ve been going in the past 50 years or so.
Nearly 40 years ago I stood up in my high school and told them that by legalizing abortion they legalized murder, and it would lead to misery and degradation of women, men and children. I was laughed at them by most. I didn’t care then and I don’t care now. I was right then, and I was right now. And I’ll say the same now as I did then. . . We are reaping the whirlwind and bad as it has been, if we don’t repent and change, we are going to face worse, much worse. And it’s going to be not because a few ‘bad people’ were too strong and defeated the ‘good people’ --it will be because the ‘good people’ have become so corrupt and vitiated that they willingly embrace the evil. Black is white. Bad is good.
God help us.
oppycock. Apparently it hasn’t occured to them (and I am NOT directing this at any poster, but making a general observation here) that by kowtowing to the ‘relativist’ who bleats ‘I can’t impose’, they are letting THOSE people impose THEIR beliefs onto us Catholics! (think about that for a minute.) Imposition is apparently ‘wrong’ unless it’s imposing whatever society (not God but 'society) deems is ‘right.’