Posted on 03/21/2018 4:42:00 PM PDT by marshmallow
DES MOINES, Iowa, March 20, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) Sixty-eight faith leaders who say they are Christian signed a letter of protest against a proposed Iowa law that would protect preborn children from abortion once their heartbeat is detectable.
"As faith leaders, we want to use our collective voices to stand with Iowa women in support of their constitutional right ... to an abortion," the letter to the editor of the Des Moines Register begins. Speaking against the Iowa Heartbeat Bill, the faith leaders write supportively of a pregnant mother's "private medical decisions, referring to her choosing abortion.
Most Iowans, people of faith and no faith, believe in and are standing with every womans right to be in control of their bodies and the healthcare decisions that impact their lives. We stand with Iowa women, too, they state in the March 15 letter.
Mainline Protestant denominations led the letter in both numbers and prestige, with a female United Methodist bishop and priestesses from the Presbyterian Churches USA, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, United Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, American Baptist Churches USA, Reformed Church in America, Unity Church, Episcopal Church, and United Methodist Church signing the document.
A fundamental point of disagreement between Heartbeat Bill supporters and opponents is on the reasons for the legislation. Opponents of the Heartbeat Bill, including signers of the Des Moines Register op-ed, claim that its framers have "arguments based only in religious beliefs," meaning the sanctity of innocent human life.
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Those so called leaders are not Christian.
Indeed. And He has no reason to lie, couldn’t if He did.
If you’re a “Christian” leader and claim that homosexuality is acceptable, then abortion is the next step. I wonder what the step after that will be.
I’m asking why they are allowed to reject responsibility to the point of being permitted to kill babies to avoid it.
Many of the “mainline” churches let atheist draft dodgers into their seminaries to keep them out of Vietnam.
That fundamentally dishonest act has destroyed them.
**Mainline Protestant denominations led the letter in both numbers and prestige, with a female United Methodist bishop and priestesses from the Presbyterian Churches USA, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, United Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, American Baptist Churches USA, Reformed Church in America, Unity Church, Episcopal Church, and United Methodist Church signing the document.**
Not boding well at all for these groups. God will take care of it.
Women are viewed as the owners of their daughters and sons to the extent of being permitted to treat their daughters and sons as their property to be destroyed at will.
Oregon moving along this road at a fast clip.
If they support infanticide they are not Christian!
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You know exactly what I mean.
“...who say they are Christians...” They are not Christians. They could also call themselves grapefruits or oranges. That, also, would be untrue.
Still time to repent and accept Jesus Christ as their savior.
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If the “real definition” of Christian is Christ-like, there are even fewer than I thought.
Actually the term “christians” was invented by Eusebuius when he modified the scriptures to please Constantine. They were actually known as the “Notzerim” (followers of the Netzer)
I thought they were members of the Jewish sect called “The Way”.
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>> “They could also call themselves grapefruits or oranges.” <<
Yep, it would be more truthful!
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The Way was the term for the teachings of Yeshua, the Netzer. (literally “shoot from the root of Jesse.”) The way is the sole path to salvation when he returns to gather his sheep on the day of Trumpets (the “Last Trump” declared by Paul to the Corinthians)
Jewish at that time meant keepers of the false laws of the Pharisees, which no follower of Yeshua was. Now by common usage it can mean simply descendents of the tribe of Judah.
You can call a head witch in a coven a “faith leader”. They included the Unity church which might as well be Unitarian which might as well be a coven.
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