Posted on 08/09/2016 7:03:58 PM PDT by Morgana
Abortion is not an often-discussed issue in many religious services in America, but when it is, most clergy defend unborn babies’ right to life, a new survey found.
The Pew Research Center released a new poll on Monday that examined how often Americans hear about political issues from the pulpit. Abortion was third on the list, with religious liberty and homosexuality ranking first and second. Other issues included immigration, the environment and poverty.
According to the poll, 29 percent said their clergy member spoke out about abortion during a service. Most said their clergy spoke out against abortion (22 percent), while a few (3 percent) said their clergy spoke in support of abortion.
The poll also asked people if their clergy spoke about the presidential election or a specific candidate. According to the findings:
Fewer recent churchgoers (14%) say they heard their clergy speak directly in support of or against a specific presidential candidate in the months leading up to the survey. Black Protestants were particularly likely to hear this type of message: Among black Protestants who have been in church recently, roughly three-in-ten (29%) have heard clergy speak out in support of a candidate – mostly Hillary Clinton – and an equal share have heard religious leaders speak out against a candidate (primarily Donald Trump). Smaller shares of Catholic, white evangelical Protestant and white mainline Protestant churchgoers – roughly one-in-ten or fewer – say their clergy have publicly supported or opposed particular candidates.
The poll surveyed people who had been to a religious service at least once or twice in the past few months, according to Pew.
Some clergy tend to be reluctant to speak about abortion because it is a sensitive topic. However, there are many Protestant and Catholic religious leaders who are vocal advocates for the right to life of unborn babies.
Last year after the Center for Medical Progress began releasing its undercover videos of Planned Parenthood, dozens of Protestant religious leaders spoke up against the abortion giant. Catholic leaders have been vocal advocates against the abortion group, too.
Leading up to the presidential election, Catholic Church leaders also have been among the most vocal advocates against abortion. On Aug. 3, the head of the Knights of Columbus, Carl A. Anderson, boldly proclaimed that Catholics cannot vote for a presidential candidate who supports abortions.
“What political issue could possibly outweigh this human devastation? Abortion is different. Abortion is the killing of the innocent on a massive scale,” Anderson said. “We need to end the political manipulation of Catholic voters by abortion advocates. It is time to end the entanglement of Catholic people with abortion killing. It is time to stop creating excuses for voting for pro-abortion politicians.”
Other Catholic leaders have stated publicly that they will not serve communion to pro-abortion Catholic politicians such as Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential running mate, Tim Kaine.
Which is why I stopped going to “church”.
I now meet with believers in front of Planned Parenthood twice a week...that’s my church now.
“I now meet with believers in front of Planned Parenthood twice a week...that’s my church now.”
The prayers you offer in front of Planned Parenthood does indeed save lives! Read the testimony of the man I linked to in my post #17. He writes that some abortion attempts fail because there were Christians outside praying!
Post #5 ~ “Getting Christian “scholars” to say the Early Church had no problem with abortion. Even up until the early 1900s.” ~
“... the Early Church had no problem with abortion.” This is unequivocally false, and heresy!
Of course, this is BS ~ abortion was forbidden by the ‘Didache’ written even before some of the Gospels...
† Dominus vobiscum †
I never heard about abortion in my 20 years of being a Protestant - during which, I may say, I learned many wonderful things. I think only the Catholic Church teaches that? Might be wrong.
If priests rarely if ever mention Hell, don’t expect them to speak about mortal sin and its evils on earth.
Go on Sunday’s to hear the Gospel read and for the Eucharist. If your priest is illuminating (and not just easy to listen to), bonus.
Then 30% of church goers need to find another church!
Maybe you mean 70% (where abortion is never mentioned) need to find another church?
Opps!!!!!! You are correct! Sheesh it is even WORSE then I transposed in my head! UGH!!!!
Aborted women were there? Ghastly.
This is a bit misleading. While abortion may not be addressed “from the pulpit”, the sermons are just a small, but very important, part of Church life. Many protestant pastors are expository preachers and the issue of abortion rarely comes up in scripture. There are a few places in the old testament where the issue of abortion is directly analogous to the verses in question but it’s just not directly addressed a lot. However, while maybe it’s not a frequent topic in homiletics it probably is directly addressed in Sunday school, small group settings led by Pastors, outreach efforts, and funding and support for pro-life counseling efforts. This is certainly the case with my church.
BINGO! but you will hear peace, love, and GIVE to the youth preached while seniors with more needs are ignored.
My preacher had the nerve to tell us NOT to get up during his sermons to go to the bathroom, it disrupted them. I sit in the back for that reason as I’ve health issues that require frequent trips. So I stopped going.
No End Time Revelation preaching either.
Most churches have gone to those hypnotic praise hymns that don’t rime or have a message behind them like the old hymns did.
Only 30% of Churchgoers Say Their Pastor or Priest Has Mentioned Abortion From the Pulpit
If it's in the text we're going through, I'll hear it get preached.
Fewer recent churchgoers (14%) say they heard their clergy speak directly in support of or against a specific presidential candidate in the months leading up to the survey.
I think our pastor is as appalled as I am at how things are shaking out this time around.
Hopefully there'll be a "next time around".
There are also many other prolife celebrations in our parish. There are also weekly prayer vigils at local abortion clinics organized by parishioners.
There are also other prolife activities and support for prolife volunteers.
I am very active in my parish and proud of my prolife work.
Are you serious? It’s mentioned in Paul and Hippocrates. But conception was not understood, nor early fetal development. Until this century women did know when they were pregnant, much less calculate it to the day and hour, use test strips, or mark a calendar.
For example, the term “quickening” applied to the first sensations of life, or morning sickness may have been a first sign of pregnancy. The general attitude, without scientific facts like we have now, was more organic, but a baby in the womb was considered more a “real child” than now (”blob of tissue” was not a phrase used!).
Induced miscarriage was a crime in civilized societies, and not condoned by the medical profession, but there were always people around (midwives commonly or ‘witches’ hence the connection of both to suspicion of evil) willing to help a woman “bring on her flux.”
Pro-aborts have misused a vagueness in understanding now-known medical aspects of conception (fertilization) as a twisted way of arguing that because life was not precisely defined, society was OK with eliminating it.
I am serious.
And dont call me Shirley :)
Thanks man. That was GREAT retort.
Yeah, i read a few sickening articles.
You have given me plenty of ammo, as has Morgana.
FYI, in the “Oath” as written by Hippocrates and recited by all doctors for centuries, he specifically declares a doctor will not cause an abortion. For those who believe abortion has “always” been socially acceptable, or that it’s only Christians who have recently re-defined it, note that Hippocrates (”father of medicine in the western world”) was a Greek born centuries before Christ!
WOW. I can’t believe he addressed it. That’s great to know.
I just figured they didn’t exist because there was no means but i think i’d rather not know the means!!
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