This isn’t a religious argument, its a social one.
The only way to make clear to members of certain communities that certain actions are damaging to the members of that community is to attach some opprobium to them.
I know you are too informed to tell me that unwed motherhood doesn’t come with enormous societal, economical, and cultural costs. As such, you need to make a statement to others that unwed pregnancy isn’t just her problem. It’s everyone’s problem whether we want it to be or not.
Forgiving is the obvious thing to do, as everyone is a sinner. Accepting it is another. Quite another.
Nealy 60,000,000 dead babies. Adoption, being the responsible way to go, still a distant option in these cases. You have kids raising kids.
What’s your plan? I can show you programs here in WA state where all the preggers go to school in classes I’m paying for “that simply cannot be cut, or the economic burden on society would be even greater than it is.”
I’m glad she didn’t march. Her in WA state there is NO SOCIAL COST to kids for getting knocked up. There is also NO SOCIAL COST for the boys who walk away from the decision-making process about what happens with the babies.
How can that be good?
Again, I find it interesting that the same Christians that abhor abortion and birth control are the same Christians that drive single mothers out of the church instead of loving them and their children. Sean Hannity has commented on this very point.
If you had read verse (3:10) in context, you would understand that Paul is establishing that all are under sin. Both the gentile, who knows right and wrong from God's creation (Romans 1), and the Jews, who keep the oracles of God (Romans 2). "All have sinned and come short of the Glory of God." (Romans 3:23). And that "a man us justified by faith apart from the works of the law." (Romans 3:28). Paul is NOT excusing sin. Nor is he arguing in favor of chucking the law:
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. (Romans 3:31)
Establish the law!
You will probably not like Jesus' commands on church discipline for the unrepentent sinning brethren. (see Matthew 18:15-18).
And Hannity isn't going to like the following:
Notwithstanding I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. And I give her time to repent of her sexual immorality (fornication) and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works. (Revelation 2:20-23)
Getting fired for blatant sexual immorality and not being able to attend HS graduation, while exposing shame, are a far cry from stoning which is God's punishment for adultery -- a law that has not been repealed.
And to correct Sean Hannity: the overwhelming majority of Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) in the U.S. are run by pro-life Christians emphasizing a conservative Christian philosophy.