Posted on 05/17/2019 12:28:45 AM PDT by Morgana
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said Thursday during a sit-down with abortion rights advocates at the Georgia Statehouse that laws prohibiting or limiting abortion rights are "against Christian faith."
"If you are a person of the Christian faith, one of the tenets of our faith is free will," Gillibrand said at a press conference, according to CBS News.
"One of the tenets of our democracy is that we have a separation of church and state, and under no circumstances are we supposed to be imposing our faith on other people," the Democratic presidential candidate added. "And I think this is an example of that effort."
Gillibrand's remarks came at a roundtable discussion with abortion providers and physicians, Georgia legislators and women's rights activists following the passage of new "heartbeat" abortion legislation in the state. The bill, signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp (R), bars doctors from performing an abortion once a fetus’s heartbeat is detected, typically around six weeks into a pregnancy before most women know they are pregnant.
The sit-down also came one day after Alabama's governor signed a bill to ban almost all abortions. The ban, which is the nation's most restrictive, would prohibit abortion in nearly all cases, including rape or incest.
Gillibrand added that she wants to “make sure that every woman in America, no matter what state she lives in or how much money she has in her pocket, can have guaranteed access to safe, legal abortion,” according to The Washington Post.
She also said she wants to end the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits using federal money to cover abortion costs.
The 2020 presidential hopeful called upon other candidates to make their stances clear on abortion and said that if President Trump wants to "fight" on the issue that he will lose.
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Libs are suddenly a new kind of Bible scholar. Odd though how they equate their brand of Christianity with stuff God hates.
Her father donated to the sex trafficking cult NXIVM in upstate New York.
Gillibrand is pure evil.
She has no problem shoving atheism and secular humanism down everyone’s throat. Abortion is the most holy sacrament to the cult of liberalism.
They have no problem taking Christian businesses and homes from them for not worshiping homosexuality.
“If you are a person of the Christian faith, one of the tenets of our faith is free will,”
Hmm, and all these years I thought it was, “Thou shalt not kill.” She and the fake pope haven’t read the Christian Bible.
10 Commandments.
At #5, we have thou shall not murder.
Free will is not listed. In fact, these commandments place boundaries on personnel free will
...and under no circumstances are we supposed to be imposing our faith on other people...
Why is gubmint imposing Sharia law on We the People???
It’s all about pick and choose what you want from the Free Will buffet
Free will, eh? So, in an exercise of free will, the Christian thing to do is kill you, Kirsten? That seems a little harsh.
Yep. She seems to be trying to argue that "free will" means everyone has a moral right to do anything they want to.
Where does one start with a person as screwed up, uneducated and misinformed as this?
Oh, yeah. With a politician.
So opposing abortion is an attempt to impose the Christian faith on others? I see nothing that requires people to adopt the Christian faith or creeds. I see people and politicians arguing that human life is sacred and should not be subject to subjective termination but that is not an exclusive Christian concept. Many cultures and faiths have expressed the same thing.
A wise man once said there is nothing new under the sun. This is especially true in the expression of values and what we call universal truths. We can always find these have been expressed before, sometimes many times and from many sources beforehand. What people are doing is expressing their own heartfelt values and principles and the source of those values can always be traced to someone else, be it the Bible, the Sanskrit, the Quran, Confucias, Plato, Marx, Rousseau, Freud, Nietzsche, etc. etc.
Should the government have the power to censor heartfelt views of citizens based on the source of those views? If one quotes a Chinese proverb, is he imposing Chinese culture on the listeners? The vegetables in the garden belong to the gardener and not the seed seller. We need to stand up and say, “no, this is not my church speaking, this is me, a citizen, who has the right to express my thoughts, opinions and concerns.”
The younger turk club.
I heard one of their turds quote the bible and then he said the bible was ok with it.
Uhm..no
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