Posted on 05/08/2022 11:13:56 PM PDT by Morgana
America’s faithful are bracing — some with cautionary joy and others with looming dread — for the Supreme Court to potentially overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and end the nationwide right to legal abortion.
A reversal of the 49-year-old ruling has never felt more possible since a draft opinion suggesting justices may do so was leaked this week. While religious believers at the heart of the decades-old fight over abortion are shocked at the breach of high court protocol, they are still as deeply divided and their beliefs on the contentious issue as entrenched as ever.
National polls show that most Americans support abortion access. A Public Religion Research Institute survey from March found that a majority of religious groups believe it should be legal in most cases — with the exception of white evangelical Protestants, 69% of whom said the procedure should be outlawed in most or all cases.
In conservative Christian corners, the draft opinion has sparked hope. Faith groups that have historically taken a strong anti-abortion stance, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, have urged followers to pray for Roe's reversal.
The Rev. Manuel Rodriguez, pastor of the 17,000-strong Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic church in New York City's Queens borough, said his mostly Latino congregation is heartened by the prospect of Roe's demise at a time when courts in some Latin American countries such as Colombia and Argentina have moved to legalize abortion.
“You don’t fix a crime committing another crime,” Rodriguez said.
Bishop Garland R. Hunt Sr., senior pastor of The Father’s House, a nondenominational, predominantly African American church in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, agreed.
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Why do we keep posting BS?
Well in this case? This is what the churches are saying.
Stuff like this:
“The Rev. Sarah Halverson-Cano, senior pastor of Irvine United Congregational Church in Irvine, California, said her congregation is considering providing sanctuary and other support to women who may travel to the state to end their pregnancies. On Tuesday, the day after the draft opinion leaked, she led congregants and community members in a rally for abortion rights in nearby Santa Ana.”
I’ve been informing FReepers about this kind of nonsense for a decade now.
BTW FReepers just what kind of denomination is that anyway?
No; it’s what fake pollsters are saying, as well as infiltrated churches.
The so-called United Church of Christ has existed only since 1957. Most likely a Soviet-backed pseudochurch.
Yes and I’ve been posting about these churches for about a decade now. Ones in bed with the abortion clinic. So why now would it be any different? Now they will offer “safe haven” to women “in need” (barf) of abortion just like some of them were doing before roe became law.
We should out these “churches” and “denominations”, put them “on blast” as these young people say. We should also pray for them but we need to know they are and what they do.
A lot of churches, especially those run by a lesbian “pastor”, are just left wing social clubs masquerading as churches for the tax exemptions.
Good post.
She was so appalled she wanted to get out of the parking lot before anyone who knew her could happen to see her there. It was weird and bizarre all the way around, and felt more like some dull community meeting than a church service. The first thing I noticed when we entered was that most of the people were not very friendly, nor did they seem particularly happy, and seemed kind of like soulless robots (in other words, they were liberals). The lobby was filled with a variety of materials related to different leftist political causes. There was nothing to even suggest that you had just entered a church. The “pastor” was a woman (so not a pastor). She wore some kind of gay rainbow sash around her neck, and her message wasn’t a Biblical sermon, but rather some warmed-over “I’m OK, you’re OK” self-help psychobabble. The “worship music” before that was equally vague and bland. I believe it might have mentioned “God” once or twice, but no mention of Jesus was made by anyone in any context while we were there, and nothing approaching a biblical message was presented.
One of the creepiest things was how the relatively sparse group of congregants sang these “worship” songs in such a monotone, unenthusiastic, robotic way. The one thought that I couldn’t get out of my head was why they even bother playing church, when it’s obvious that they’re all non-believing leftists who only want to use their “church” to promote their political agenda.
All churches that are led by woman go in this direction eventually. Canada is well ahead of the curve on what you are finding out about now.
Written by Deepa Sh#t and Andre Heinous.
Re religion of the SC Justices: https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/391649/religion-supreme-court-justices.aspx ... The new justice will replace one of the two Jewish justices and be the lone Protestant. With 2/3 of the court being Catholic, it’s no mystery abortion might be up for grabs imo. The real mystery to me is why so many are Catholic. Is this a new thing or has it always been this way?
It's one of those churches that "preaches another Jesus".
It’s time to declare the abortionist and abortionee as first-degree murderers, with the abortioners up for cessation of their own lives as the consequence. Let’s us not to leave this up to an individual state, but proclaim a nation-wide right of the child conceived within its borders the right to keep on living without interference. And assisted suicide unlawful as well, which is very closely related in the morality of murder.
Me? No!
Bishop Westcott was founder and the first president of the English political organization, the "Christian Social Union." Looking at his personal conduct and professions of "faith." no one can really say that he was regenerated in the Spirit, as one might say of a person being "saved."
It was the Geek text upon which the long-established English Kin James-Authorized Version of the Bible that He and Hort sought to replace, and were pretty successful at.
The translations from it supplanted the old Bible endorsed by the Methodist Episcopal Church, and led to their union with the Evangelical (?) United Brethren, and their curent fallenness.
I have a lot of family members who were old school methodists. They gotta be turning over in their graves to know what happened to their denomination.
I for one am shocked to see what is going on that there, truly sad.
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