Posted on 02/02/2015 12:42:35 PM PST by Morgana
On January 26th, the Union Theological Seminary hosted a new event called the Congressional Faith Orientation on Capitol Hill. At the event, five democrat legislators spoke about how their faith influences their work in the legislature. According to the Christian Post, the representatives included, Sheila Jackson Lee, R-Texas, Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, and James Clyburn, D-South Carolina.
In the past, these lawmakers have opposed pro- life legislation, and at the orientation a few of them argued against cutting funding of Planned Parenthood. In their opinion, it is ok for Christians to collaborate with the abortion giant because they are dedicated to helping poor women.
Rep. Cleaver said, “When you debate the allocation to Planned Parenthood, the debate on the floor is going to be about abortion, in spite of the fact that abortion is not in the bill and that we can’t give federal money for abortion. The money when we debate that is on the services for women, or for poor women who can’t get the services elsewhere, not abortions. But if you tune in, the debate will be about abortions. Why? Because they can get some votes.”
However, the Planned Parenthood debate has everything to do with abortion. According to their 2013-2014 annual report, they performed 327,653 abortions this past year, maintaining their title as the nation’s largest abortion business. The “non-profit” also ranked in $305.4 million; and received over a half-billion dollars in taxpayer money, as it took in $540 million in 2012 and $528 million in 2013.
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Additionally, although Rep. Cleaver argues that none of this money goes toward abortion, Planned Parenthood has repeatedly lied to Americans about what their funding is used for. In 2012, Karen Reynolds who worked as a “health care assistant” at a Texas Planned Parenthood, filled a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that the abortion business engaged in fraudulently overbilling Medicaid, Title XX, and the Women’s Health Program of tens of millions of dollars over the course of at least a decade.
As a result, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast had to pay a total of $4.3 million in reimbursements to Medicaid after the state found them guilty. Reynolds also claimed that supervisor’s trained employees to illegally bill government agencies for medical and family planning services as well as abortion related services.
Nonetheless, Rep. Cleaver’s support of Planned Parenthood shouldn’t come as a surprise because in 2012 the abortion giant awarded him for his “tireless work on behalf of millions of women…who faced the most aggressive attacks on women’s health and rights in a generation.”
Unfortunately, Cleaver wasn’t the only one at the orientation who’s openly affiliated with abortion. In 2011, during the debate on The Protect Life Act (HR 358), Representative Lee (D-TX) argued that the law, which would stop taxpayer funding of abortion and strengthen conscience protections under Obamacare, was an “insidious” attack on women. During her floor speech, Rep. Lee mentioned a Texas ultrasound law that “required a doctor to talk first to a woman seeking an abortion and to allow or force them both to listen to, uh, sounds that, uh, might discourage this needed action.”
Because nothing says Christian like murdering an unborn child...
Try to come up with something more obvious than: Killing a baby is wicked.
I can’t.
I cannot imagine that anyone who, over a period of years, promotes the killing of tens of millions of babies, can end up anywhere other than Hell, along with everyone who voted to keep such a person in public office, or didn’t vote at all, even on the grounds that “Jesus” doesn’t want us to be involved in “politics.”
I cannot imagine that anyone who uses “religion,” “the Bible,” or “God” as justification for sticking scissors in a baby’s neck and sucking out the brains will end up in an especially deep and hot place in Hell.
And most of those hundreds of thousands of unborn victims of abortion were Black. That’s why that “Black Lives Matter” is such a bald-faced lie, and these old Democrat stooges know it.
Perhaps their god is Molech.
Sheila Jackson Lee is actually a proud member of the moonbat crazy wing of the democrat party.
Looks like the RINO’s attempts to reach across the aisle are going a little too far these days, lol...
Translation: "to listen to the heartbeat of her unborn child". Oh, no! Can't let THAT happen..a woman might actually change her mind! Funny how "choice" only counts to these dimwits when it's to get an abortion.
They say on their website http://www.utsnyc.edu/about/union-theological-seminary-history-mission:
"Daily it is confirmed that the city provides a critical training ground where students can learn to grapple with the grave issues of our age. Our ecumenical, interfaith commitment grows and strengthens through programs of exchange with churches and seminaries throughout the world. Informed by the insights of liberation theologians, the Seminary embraces and addresses the richness and realities of religious pluralism."
Before the dawn of the twentieth century, even the Presbyterian church - stated as their "orientation" - disavowed them.
Don’t blame the writer, anymore I can’t tell a democrat from a republican.
“the Seminary embraces and addresses the richness and realities of religious pluralism.””
So it sounds like what ever. They could believe in pink fluffy bunny rabbits and that’s okay too.
Sounds like it. That Liberation Theology “informed” their insights part pretty much explained it all to me. The slogan, “When you don’t stand for anything, you’ll fall for everything.” seems to fit them.
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York is an independent, ecumenical, Christian seminary located in the New York City borough of Manhattan between Claremont Avenue, Broadway, 120th Street, and 122nd Street, in the Morningside Heights neighborhood. It is the oldest independent seminary in the United States, having been founded in 1836 by members of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.,[2] but was open to students of all denominations. In 1893, Union rescinded the right of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church to veto faculty appointments. It thus became fully independent. In the 20th century, Union was world renowned as a center of liberal Christianity and neo-orthodoxy, in addition to being the birthplace of the Black Liberation Theology, Womanist Theology and Mujerista Theology movements.
“Woe to those who call evil good & good evil............” Isaiah 5:20.
I need to get that taste out of my mouth.......R ?????
If King Obamagabe had a conversion and become pro-life, every of these sheeple would follow suit.
Correction:
“When you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”
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