My Choice (moral relativism gone mad)

Hartford Courant ^ | 2/19/2006 | Rev. Donna Shaper

[Kimmers]

I took deep breath and googled the church

http://www.judson.org/war.htm

They have an "activism" area, need I say more?

[MamaB]

Go to the church site to learn more. You will not be surprised.

[Junior_G]

I'm with you. Maybe she's a reverend, maybe she's a she, maybe she had an abortion...
Cheesy stories like this are usually filled with a healthy dose of BS...it's all about the agenda that is being driven.

[Millicent_Hornswaggle]

This woman is one of the reasons why Christians get a bad name. I'm not sure what book she is teaching in at her "church", but it's not the Good Book. Her little story is full of pride and a serious lack of shame and guilt for the murder of her child. How hard would it have been to put the child up for adoption; instead she chose murder and now wants to stand at her pulpit and tell everyone around her to continue in their sin and murder their children. I will pray for her salvation because she does not know our Lord Jesus.

[hellinahandcart]

But, they serve Fair Trade coffee at coffee hour...

[MamaB]

I went there and she makes me very glad that I go to a Southern Baptist Church. Plain out politics.

[imskylark]

"I happen to agree that abortion is a form of murder"

This is much more disturbing to hear than the usual excuse that it is only tissue and not a human until birth. She knew she was committing murder.

[Larry Lucido]

Hmm, Jesus is mentioned 3 times in passing, but this "Judson" dude must really be someone special there.

[dennisw]

This idiot is beyond vile because as a *minister* others look up to her for guidance. On the positive side I do give her credit for having three children when so many are have fewer and none

[Larry Lucido]

I don't get it. If war is wrong, then how can she justify abortion by comparing it to war? Wouldn't that make abortion wrong, too? Of course, it's not about logic, it's about feelings.

[bcsco]

ping

[hellinahandcart]

Sunday March 19th: Judson will be joined by guest speaker Dan Wakefield, who will discuss his new book, The Hijacking of Jesus; How the Religious Right Distorts Christianity and Promotes Prejudice and Hate. In The Hijacking of Jesus, Dan Wakefield asks how and why the Christian faith has been so effectively appropriated by the Bush administration. Why is it that Republicans have become the party of "moral values?" How is it that mainline Christian denominations and leadership, both Catholic and Protestant, have remained remarkably silent on the war in Iraq, the civil rights erosion of the Patriot Act, the growth of poverty, the Terry Schiavo debacle, and the fact that over 40 million people now live without health insurance? And how can Christians recapture and reclaim their faith from the cynical manipulations of Bill Frist, Tom Delay, and George W. Bush?

[ClaireSolt]

She is so full of herself. Does she not even wonder what God ordained for her that she selfishly refused?

[Shalom Israel]

Wow, I'm truly surprised--and I don't surprise easily. This woman honestly says, "I killed my child in the full conviction that I was murdering a baby, but I see this killing to be morally equivalent to killing a terrorist. You see, the little terrorist was trying to suicide-bomb my sex life..."

Yeah, she's deeply confused. But worse, she is by her own confession a murderer. And worse yet, she sees this war on the unborn as a "just war," on par with the WoT or WWII. The "War to Get Laid," I guess you could call it.

Nope, my mind's still reeling.

[jwalsh07]

I know I murdered the life within me. I could have loved that life but chose not to.

Sick Reverend. I'll pray for Alma, I'm not a good enough Christian to pray for the Reverend but I hope she comes to know that murder for convenience is not soemthing Jesus would cast a vote for.

[Fruitbat]

It's really, really, really weak to compare people in Africa with people in America when it comes to topics like this and even others. Americans have a wealth of options available to themselves, birth control in this case, whereas the plight of Africans, many anyway, does not even compare. Weak!

When I made my choice to end one life on behalf of other life, I was terribly troubled. I was in a double bind. I prayed and anguished. Then I made a choice. Adults make choices.

"...end one life on behalf of other life,..."

This lady ought to be an shyster attorney instead. Let's call it what it is, the "ending of one life for the convenience, selfishness, and vocational expedience of another."

I pity the man that is married to this fool.

[wagglebee]

Pro-Life Ping.

This feminazi who claims to be a minister, still had one of her children butchered because it would be inconvenient, but she went ahead and "named" her victim. This woman is completely evil on so many different levels.

[RexBeach]

"Alma"? This woman makes my skin crawl. She's a minister, she has an abortion, and she's not sorry for it? Good luck to her when she meets her Maker. How is she going to rationalize killing the child in her womb with her work as a so-called sheperd of God's children?

I wonder if she knows what "mea culpa, mea culpa, maxima mea culpa" means?

[Prov3456]

There are many avenues now for women (men) like your friend's wife who are still dealing with the abortion they had years ago.

May I suggest that, given the right time and opportunity, you suggest to the friend or his wife that she contact CareNet or SaveOne or a local crisis pregnancy center. Many organizations offer post-abortion healing programs which include, among other things, the opportunity to forgive oneself. That is the hardest part.

Prayers for her and her family.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Excuse me, I might have misunderstood you: you say they baptize the unborn--- after an abortion? They baptize the dead body, or what's left of it? Please explain, I'm sure I must have misunerstood.