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Pro-Abortion Clergy Bless New York Abortion Business as "Sacred Ground"
LifeNews.com ^ | January 24, 2008 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 01/24/2008 9:17:23 AM PST by SErtelt

by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor January 24, 2008

Albany, NY (LifeNews.com) -- In an act that is sure to generate guffaws from the pro-life community, a group of pro-abortion clergy in Schenectady held a ceremony at a local abortion business to bless it and call it "sacred ground." Religious officials who are pro-life call the ceremony sacrilegious by blessing a place that kills the life God creates.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: abortion; baptist; catholic; clergy; jewish; minister; moloch; moralabsolutes; newyork; plannedparenthood; prolife; protestant; rabbi
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To: SErtelt

And Herrod sent his men to Bethlehem where they did kill all children under the age of two.


21 posted on 01/24/2008 9:55:47 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Number1FredHeadSwitch2Mitt)
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To: DManA
Church of Baal.

Or Molech.

22 posted on 01/24/2008 9:59:31 AM PST by OB1kNOb (What a sad state of GOP affairs it has come to, picking a candidate as the lesser evil.)
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To: SErtelt; sandyeggo
Duplicate post.

35 years pass, but not debate (clergy bless new Planned Parenthood clinic ) Rabbi blows Shofar

23 posted on 01/24/2008 10:04:18 AM PST by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: RedRightReturn
You can be pro-abortion. Or you can be Clergy. You can’t be both.

You can nowadays. There are denominations that provide abortion-on-demand as part of employees' health care packages (like ELCA). Some denominations even support hospitals that do 'regular' abortions, like here (note UCC): http://www.nrlc.org/news/1999/NRL1199/illi.html

24 posted on 01/24/2008 10:06:59 AM PST by polymuser (Just darn)
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To: SErtelt
Like giving a blessing to Auschwitz.
25 posted on 01/24/2008 10:09:07 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: Wallace T.
It is worth noting that the lead clergy member dedicating the abortuary is a United Church of Christ minister.

When I read the headline I KNEW the only church that would do this is the Church of Christ.....whats with this church?

26 posted on 01/24/2008 10:10:20 AM PST by bigjoesaddle ("By Grabthar's hammer......what a savings")
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To: Wil H
Well of course it’s “Sacred Ground”

Just look at the number of human sacrifices performed there..

Thank you for so clearly seeing the truth.

sacred ground where the violent voices of hatred and oppression are quelled

The only voices being quelled are the tiny voices of the babies being killed.

What evil poses in the name of religion.

27 posted on 01/24/2008 10:23:01 AM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (...dreams of a Utopia - a land where 'Liberals' aka Totalitarians do not exist...)
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To: SErtelt
In an act that is sure to generate guffaws from the pro-life community, a group of pro-abortion clergy in Schenectady held a ceremony at a local abortion business to bless it and call it "sacred ground."

Idiots.

28 posted on 01/24/2008 10:25:40 AM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: bigjoesaddle
When I read the headline I KNEW the only church that would do this is the Church of Christ

That's UNITED Church of Christ, not the Church of Christ.

The United Church of Christ is where all the gay hippies and Marxists gather on Sundays.

The Church of Christ is a different animal - they are very conservative. Think of them as humorless Baptists, without a piano (or any instruments, for that matter). They are Biblically sound, although a little prickly.
29 posted on 01/24/2008 10:31:22 AM PST by horse_doc (Visualize a world where a tactical nuke went off at Max Yasgur's farm in 1969.)
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To: bigjoesaddle
The United Church of Christ was formed in 1957 by the union of two denominations, the Evangelical and Reformed Church, with its roots in the Pietist movements in Germany among Lutherans and Calvinists, the Congregational Christian Churches, the descendants of English-American Puritan churches. and a faction of the Disciples of Christ, which is in turn a portion of the Campbellite movement that started on the frontier during the 19th Century. Generally speaking, the conservatives left the founding denominations around the time of the merger. It has endorsed homosexual marriage on the denominational level, something even the other mainline churches have not done. Additionally, they have gone further in divesting from investment in Israel than any other liberal church group.

In summary, the United Church of Christ is bad news.

30 posted on 01/24/2008 11:05:53 AM PST by Wallace T.
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This is my first contribution to FR.
I hope I don’t get this wrong.
It seems we are witnessing a radical change in religion.
If this story is pointing to an uncertain future, I recomend a new
prayer that has already been used in many television repeats.
It goes like this.
OUR BOMB WHO ART IN HEAVEN> I expect that someone like
a confused astronaut will indeed access the firing mechanism.
what a shame.


31 posted on 01/24/2008 11:43:41 AM PST by machenation (Frank Zappa once sang "it can't happen here")
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To: SErtelt

PLANET OF THE APES HAD THE RIGHT PRAYER FOR THESE GOD’S CHILDREN.
IT’S NOT MY POSITION ON HUMAN LIFE..


32 posted on 01/24/2008 11:43:43 AM PST by machenation (Frank Zappa once sang "it can't happen here")
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To: SErtelt
In an act that is sure to generate guffaws from the pro-life community...

Guffaws? Try disgust.

33 posted on 01/24/2008 1:37:56 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Wanna see how bad it can get? Elect Hillary and find out.)
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To: cgk; Coleus; cpforlife.org; narses; 8mmMauser

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34 posted on 01/24/2008 4:19:15 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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This is beyond sick!

35 posted on 01/24/2008 4:19:59 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Emmett McCarthy
To invoke the name of God in blessing the unspeakably horrific is just unimagineable

Jesus said there is one sin God would not forgive--blaspheming the Holy Spirit. This must be close to what that ominous phrase means. I don't know this so-called pastor but I'd guess his soul is in severe jeopardy.

36 posted on 01/24/2008 4:39:03 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: reagan_fanatic

These”clergy” are fools,and I mean that in the literal and spiritual sense.


37 posted on 01/24/2008 4:57:06 PM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: hinckley buzzard

It’s just such an abominable act to “bless” that it’s beyond my comprehension.


38 posted on 01/24/2008 5:13:05 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: wagglebee

>> This is beyond sick!

Scumbags manage to find their way into virtually everything — there is no sacred ground that is free from the stain of evil. Some of the depraved are extortionists, others pedophiles, some rape, and there are those that kill and commit murder.

Certainly the life taken from the unborn is sacred, but those who part the child’s soul from his/her being are the stain makers.

May God bless all children especially those killed through abortion. May God help us find a way to end the crimes committed against those incapable of defending themselves.


39 posted on 01/24/2008 5:57:04 PM PST by Gene Eric
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To: SErtelt; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; ...

ACTION: Send your complaints to Rev. Larry Phillips, c/o Emmanuel Baptist-Friedens United Church of Christ, 218 Nott Terrace Schenectady, NY 12305, Phone 518-374-4114 or email ebcfried@nycap.rr.com


40 posted on 01/24/2008 7:00:13 PM PST by Coleus (Abortion and Euthanasia, Don't Democrats just kill ya?)
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