Posted on 12/17/2012 7:29:37 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
For the Very Rev. Gary Hall, tenth dean of the Washington National Cathedral, the Connecticut killings are the last straw in the debate about gun control.
At two worship services Sunday, Hall appealed to worshipers to help lawmakers pass legislation that would limit access to weapons. The Episcopal Church has advocated gun control for many years.
“Why do we as a society tolerate these massacres in increasing numbers?” Hall said. What does it say about us as a community of human beings that we are willing to put our children, not to mention their teachers, in so much jeopardy? ... What are we, as people of faith, to do?”
Hall called on the nation to address gun violence, urging faith communities to take the lead in pushing for effective gun-control measures, particularly access to assault weapons. He called on people across religious traditions to “serve as a counterweight to the gun lobby.”
“Enough is enough,” Hall said. “As followers of Jesus, we have the moral obligation to stand for and with the victims of violence and to work to end it. We have tolerated school shootings, mall shootings, theater shootings, sniper shootings, workplace shootings, temple and church shootings, urban neighborhood shootings for far too long.”
At the 11:15 a.m. sermon, worshipers interrupted Hall with applause. At the 8:45 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. services Sunday, many worshipers rose for a standing ovation after Hall’s sermon.
“I believe the gun lobby is no match for the cross lobby,” Hall said.
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This is the dean of the EPISCOPAL “National” Cathedral folks, his female bishop is more Buddhist than Christian—and neither he nor her has any idea at all what the cross is about...and they openly commit perjury every service when they recite the creeds.
The very fact that a sermon would strongly advocate one side of a contentious political debate—ie, they are making politics “theology” is utterly ridiculous. These folks wouldn’t know the Gospel if He were born a baby in a manger...
Along with normalizing homosexuality and a few other bits of highly questionable logic.
Abortions in the United States
Total number of abortions in the U.S. 1973-2011: 54.5 million+
234 abortions per 1,000 live births (according to the Centers for Disease Control)
Abortions per year: 1.2 million
Abortions per day: 3,288
Abortions per hour: 137
9 abortions every 4 minutes
1 abortion every 26 seconds
These statistics include only surgical and medical abortions. Because many contraceptive measures are abortifacients (drugs that induce or cause abortions), it is important not to overlook the number of children killed by chemical abortions. Since 1965, an average of 11 million women have used abortifacient methods of birth control in the United States at any given time. Using formulas based on the way the birth control pill works, pharmacy experts project that about 14 million chemical abortions occur in the United States each year, providing a projected total of well in excess of 610 million chemical abortions between 1965 and 2009.
When conducting research on abortion statistics, you may also encounter two different sets of numbers. One set is from the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) and the other is from the Guttmacher Institute, the “independent research arm” of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
The Guttmacher Institute totals are actually the more accurate since the Institute conducts private research on abortion providers throughout the country and because not all states are required to report to the CDC. In fact, California and New York, where high numbers of abortions occur, are not included in CDC figures.
Planned Parenthood’s income break-down for 2009-2010 fiscal year
PP clinic income: $320.1 million
PP donations revenue: $223.8 million
PP Government grants and contracts: $487.4 million
Total profit: $18.5 million
Total income: $1.05 billion
2010 Planned Parenthood service numbers
Number of abortions (medical and surgical): 329,445
Total number of abortions per week: 6,335
Adoption referrals: 841
Ratio of adoption referrals to abortions: 1 per 392
2011 PP Annual Survey
Total number of PP clinics: 749
Total number of PP clinics that perform surgical and medical abortions: 322
Total number of affiliates: 82
Other Information
Highest number of PP clinics: 938 in 1995
U.S. Total Females, Age 15-44 (According to 2010 U.S. Census)
Whites: 58.3% (36,399,198)
Blacks: 14.2% (8,897,793)
Hispanic or Latino: 19.0% (11,845,024)
Other: 8.5% (5,303,843)
TOTAL: 62,445,858
U.S. Women Who Obtained Abortions in 2008 (According to Center of Disease Control)
White: 52.4%
Black: 40.2%
Other: 7.4%
TOTAL: 825,564
U.S.Women Fertility Rates (According to the National Center for Health Statistics)
In 1990: White: 1.85
Black: 2.55
Hispanic: 2.96
In 2010: White: 1.79
Black: 1.97
Hispanic: 2.35
Last updated July 26, 2012:
http://www.all.org/nav/index/heading/OQ/cat/MzQ/id/NjA3OQ/
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This is a man speaking for a dying church. The NRA probably has more Christian members than this man’s gay church. It’s a Marxist social club. Christians beleive in protection of the innocent from predators. The madmen of Marxism feel unsafe in this enviornment.
How are they going to break all those eggs to arrive at their atheist utopia if the millions of targets can shoot back?
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