if anybody shows up this Sunday, it's just a cult...
Posted on 08/26/2020 5:18:14 AM PDT by Gamecock
A pastor of a Georgia megachurch who also is running for U.S. Senate said last week he believes legalized abortion is “consistent with” Christianity and he would “fight” to ensure it remains legal.
Raphael Warnock, senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, and a Democratic candidate trying to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler in November’s election, made the comments to WGAU’s Tim Bryant.
Bryant asked Warnock how the pro-choice views of the Democrat Party “square with” his “role as a minister, a leader of a church, a man of God.”
“I believe that healthcare is a human right,” said Warnock, who has served as senior pastor of the church since 2005. “And I believe that it is something that the richest nation in the world provides for its citizens, and for me reproductive justice is consistent with my commitment to that.
“I believe unequivocally in a woman's right to choose, and that the decision is something that we don't want government engaged in – that's between her and her doctor and her minister. And I will fight for that in the United States Senate, and at the same time continue to fight so women can receive the kind of services that they need in order to have a healthy pregnancy and healthy babies. We have a maternal death rate in this country that is exceedingly high, particularly to be the richest country in the world.”
Referencing his career as a minister and in public service, Warnock added, “I've been focused on women's health, women's choice, reproductive justice. That is consistent with my view as a Christian minister. And I will fight for it.”
Bryant then asked, “Do you think it's consistent with God's view – that God endorses the millions of abortions we've had in this country since Roe v Wade?”
Warnock responded, “I think that human agency and freedom is consistent with my view as a minister.”
Ebenezer Baptist has more than 6,000 members and is affiliated with the Progressive National Baptist Convention.
Planned Parenthood endorsed Warnock in May.
Last week, television commentator and former NFL coach Tony Dungy referenced the interview after Bryant tweeted he had spoken with a minister who believes “abortion is ‘healthcare’ and ‘reproductive justice’ and God is cool with it.”
I spoke with a Dem candidate for US Senate (and minister) today.
Abortion is “healthcare” and “reproductive justice” and God is cool with it.
And a question about the murder of Secoria Turner yielded an answer about opioids.
— Tim Bryant (@TimBryantRadio) August 20, 2020 It isn’t clear if Dungy knew Warnock was the pastor Bryant had interviewed. Dungy tweeted, “When you say ‘a minister’ does that mean they represent a church? I’d like to know what book the candidate uses as their foundation for truth and their guiding principles? It couldn’t be the Bible.” Dungy later tweeted, “Anyone familiar with Psalm 139 would be against abortion.”
When you say “a minister” does that mean they represent a church? I’d like to know what book the candidate uses as their foundation for truth and their guiding principles? It couldn’t be the Bible. https://t.co/UF3f7D5pFj
What in heaven’s name is “reproductive justice?”
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It’s an attempt to legitimize the indefensible. It is like calling human trafficking “Sexual Justice”.
Just sickening, isn’t it?
True man of (some other) God (than the God of the Bible)
This clown, pretending to be a pastor, is going to be in for a huge shock when his time comes to meet Jesus face to face. He will not be taking the UP elevator. The DOWN elevator to hell is his final destination.
Go to hell “pastor”.
Raphael Warnock, senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, and a Democratic candidate trying to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler in November’s election, made the comments to WGAU’s Tim Bryant.
The Apostle Jude had a pithy description for this type of reprobate in verse 10:
“But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.”
Can he point to advocacy for abortion in the New Testament?
There is certainly no justice for the baby
Nope, because that would not be consistent with Point-of-view Justice. /sarc
Tax that Church!
Well, since I often head to the old testament, does it not say if you plan, and commit murder you should be killed?
If so, then these people are condemned.
the anti-Christian ACLU would be up in arms about “Church and State” if he stance on abortion was opposite.
Not all...not all.
Nothing says, “healthcare” like stopping a healthy beating heart. Thank you, “Pastor” Warlock.
Isaiah 5:20-23
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness,
who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Woe to those who are wise in their own opinion and clever in their own sight.
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, who are fearless at mixing beer,
who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
if anybody shows up this Sunday, it's just a cult...
Ba’al is a big supporter of babies healthcare too.
Idiot.
I guess he missed something in the Ten Commandments about *Thou shalt not murder*.
He’s no pastor and that’s no church.
No man of God could justify abortion.
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