Posted on 07/29/2011 3:04:31 AM PDT by jacknhoo
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is one of the several pro-life advocates seeking the Republican nomination to face pro-abortion President Barack Obama and she cites Christian writer Francis Schaeffer as an influence on her pro-life views.
In a campaign stop to speak to local residents at a church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Bachmann shared her testimony and talked about the Christian faith she and her husband share. That faith, which has matured thanks to the writings of Schaeffer, has led Bachman to a pro-life view that has seen her compile a 100% pro-life voting record in Congress and adopt dozens of foster children.
“One thing that Dr. Schaeffer said is that [God is] not just the God of theology. He’s not just the God of the Bible,” Bachmann said, according to the Des Moines Register. “Since he is the Creator God, he’s the father of biology, sociology, of political science, of you name the subject. … And that altered our way of thinking, that God had something to say about our career.”
“Francis Schaeffer also said that life is the watershed issue of our time, and how we come down on how we view human life will impact all other issues,” she said. “And so Marcus and I decided we didn’t want to be pro-life only, just as speaking… We wanted to live a life of being about pro-life.”
The Register indicates Bachmann told the audience that, upon the encouragement to put her pro-life views into action, she and her husband began counseling and praying with single mothers and helping them get to pregnancy and adoption centers to provide further practical support instead of abortion.
“This is not to condemn any woman who here has ever had an abortion or participated in one,” she said, according to the newspaper. “Because God is there also with grace and mercy in that situation, but to say that he is the life-giving only God who has answers in the midst of our trying times.”
Dave Andrusko, of the National Right to Life Committee, says he is not surprised Schaeffer helped shaped Bachmann’s faith and pro-life views.
“There are a couple of reasons it’s useful to talk about Congresswoman Bachmann’s talk—her testimony. Like almost all the GOP candidates current running, and most of the few who may still jump in, she is staunchly pro-life,” he says. “Schaeffer is perhaps best known to pro-life veterans for co-authoring with Dr. C. Everett Koop (later Surgeon General) the hugely influential “Whatever Happened to the Human Race?” Both as a book and a video series, the impact of “Whatever Happened to the Human Race” cannot be exaggerated. It awakened and mobilized Evangelical Protestants as nothing before had ever done.”
He called the Bachmanns “loving pro-lifers” who have expressed their Christian faith and pro-life views “through the hands and feet” of action.
The anti-Catholic stuff will probably hurt her.
Catholics have no problem with her at all. The media would like to assert that, but it is not true.
I’m Catholic and she has my vote - my first criteria for any politician is that they’re pro-life. All else pales in comparison. The “soros catholics” will have a problem though when/if it’s her and the obamunist.
This puts Bachmann in the early wave of evangelical Christians whose Pro-Life views drove them into the GOP.
Francis Schaeffer the intellectual and Jerry Falwell the television preacher were big influences on this early wave.
Later Pat Robertson brought in another wave with his 1988 presidential campaign.
Sarah Palin is equally as pro life and did not hire a guy to go after her sister in Christ! So what`s your point?
Also Gov Palin has talked about protecting the unborn non stop, and she has done this without hiring a Rollins to attack her sister in Christ!
Schaeffer's only problem with Catholicism was intercessory, that one would need to "merit the unmerited favor (grace) of God in Christ."
A lot of vocabulary now in regular use in evangelist circles originated with his work, e.g. "worldview," "post-Christian West," "culture of death," etc.
Now, considering how backsliden his son Franky has become, spewing anger now from the Moon Bat Left, my guess is we can expect him to pipe in.
Credit that, when it happens, to the merit of her testimony in this regard. If "Franky" reacts angrily to this report, she must be doing something right.
Schaeffer's intellectual rebuttal to Roe and Skinner marked the turnabout in many against "choice" with regard to the unborn.
Let's just say this... This snippet of news, easily ignored, struck a responsive chord with me. I've taken her candidacy seriously before this, but much more so now than before reading this.
i agree, but she and palin have to stop saying stupid things.. think before you talk...
I wrote that so long ago (only a few weeks ago but in poster time eons) had to go back and read what I wrote. They all say stupid things but some are singled out more than others thereagain they know this and should be more careful with what they say so we end up agreeing. :)
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