[madprof98]

This guy is supporting himself on money from the abortion industry. What a joke! I wonder if anybody (other than the AJC's Cynthia Tucker) would ever go to hear him preach a "sermon."

[VOA]

Lacking basis, Christians fight abortion

applying truth to the situation:

"Using Mendacity, Abortion-Promoting Lawyers Duped US Supreme Court
Into Row V. Wade Decision"

[TAdams8591]

This entire article is NOTHING but rationalization.

You MAY be fooling yourself Reverend, but you don't fool us.

[Mogollon]

This fool apparently does not have a clue what the bible says:

Exodus Chapter 21:

22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

In the case of abortion the "mischeif" spoken of in the verse is pre-meditated...so the punishment should be life for life.

[VOA]

An ordained United Church of Christ pastor, he is completing a
doctorate degree at Vanderbilt University.

IIRC, the United Church of Christ (formerly Congregationalists?)
lost nearly half of their membership over the last 40 years.

Surely that couldn't be partly attributed to abortion of potential
future congregants...
(end sarcasm)

[confederate_infidel]

Ping-aling-ding ding!

[hinckley buzzard]

I hate when flaming atheists masquerade as Christian pastors. Of course, my hatred is nothing compared to what they have waiting for them.

[cgk]

Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!

Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping list...

[zip]

An ordained United Church of Christ pastor

This tells me that the United Church of Christ supports murder. It keeps getting worse and worse.

[RightOnline]

Horses**t.

[loveliberty2]

The "grid" through which this young man views things has, no doubt, been molded by the institutions which have indoctrinated him. His personal web page contains a "homilies" section (including a touching one honoring his grandmother), as well as a "writings" section. Of special political note among his featured writings are these: "Rethinking What It Means to Be a Democrat" - November 5, 2004, and "Coping with the 2004 Election Results," which claims to be a "partial satire," but is it? These can be found here.

His newspaper challenges about when life begins, as well as his stand on the mother's right to destroy her child in the womb lead one to wonder how he interprets the words of Psalm 139: "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. … I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body."(Psa. 139:13-14).

More on these words and just some of the amazing new discoveries and technologies which bring new meaning to the words of Psalm 139 can be found here.

[TigersEye]

A Buddhist against abortion. The Sutras emphatically state that life begins at conception. Good 'nuff for me. (As if I needed anyone to explain this great mystery.)

Abortion is not about saving women’s lives!

Studies Find Abortions Have Long-Term Adverse Effects

Total Abortions since 1973

45,951,133

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Why the drop after 1960? (in deaths of women from illegal abortions)

The reasons were new and better antibiotics, better surgery and the establishment of intensive care units in hospitals. This was in the face of a rising population. Between 1967 and 1970 sixteen states legalized abortion. In most it was limited, only for rape, incest and severe fetal handicap (life of mother was legal in all states). There were two big exceptions — California in 1967, and New York in 1970 allowed abortion on demand. Now look at the chart carefully.

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Abortion Statistics - Decision to Have an Abortion (U.S.)

· 25.5% of women deciding to have an abortion want to postpone childbearing

· 21.3% of women cannot afford a baby

· 14.1% of women have a relationship issue or their partner does not want a child

· 12.2% of women are too young (their parents or others object to the pregnancy)

· 10.8% of women feel a child will disrupt their education or career

· 7.9% of women want no (more) children

· 3.3% of women have an abortion due to a risk to fetal health

2.8% of women have an abortion due to a risk to maternal health

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So how many women’s lives have been saved by abortion?

Only about 3% of abortions since 1972 were reported to be “due to a risk to maternal health.” A reasonable person would recognize that not all of those cases represent a lethal risk. But let’s say they did. That means that nearly 45 million fetuses were butchered to save the lives of about 1.3 million women. Or put another way; 35 babies are killed to save each woman.

Abortion was legal in all 50 states prior to Roe v. Wade in cases of danger to the life of the woman.

Roe v Wade: FULL Text (The Decision that wiped out an entire Generation 33 years ago today)

[WalterSkinner]

..the utterances of a cloud without water from the NCC...

[Beagle8U]

"The far right, however, has been able to set the issue of abortion apart from all of the other controversial, life-or-death decisions we make every day. Abortion is not a special case; and I pray that the guardians of our Constitution will continue to protect our freedom to choose our own priorities in all of these weighty matters."

The crap-wad Rev. that wrote this drivel has no idea of what it is to be a Christian.

You can't mix murdering innocent children in with caring for the poor or other social programs to justify it.

War and murdering children aren't something that can be related to one-another to justify it.

[Desert_Girl]

where is the "barf" alert???

[ElkGroveDan]

You too can become a minister with a degree from our Online Divinity School

[narses]

+

[Doctor Don]

He may know much about God......but he don't know God. Join a church he pastors? NOT!

[Cedar]

For the truth on abortion, this man needs to click below:

http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/pictures_2.html

[jude24]

Even those of us who speak passionately about protecting the weak often forget that our willingness to purchase cheap goods produced by exploited workers sentences children to poverty, disease, violence and death. The cars that we drive, the food that we allow to be marketed to children, the tax breaks we support or oppose, they all have a life-or-death impact on the most vulnerable among us. It is not only in war that we make decisions to value one life over another. Consciously or not, we do it every time we go to the supermarket.

This author is half-right. Abortion is not the end-all of "moral values," and Evangelical Christianity must develop a consistant ethic of respect for human life and dignity which includes the poor as much as the unborn. His solution, however - which seems to elevate socially-conscious economics over abortion is worse.

[LiteKeeper]

How else could we spend millions of dollars to oppose abortion --- despite no clear biblical argument for or against it --- and ignore the overwhelming number of biblical texts that explicitly command us to care for the poor?

Try Genesis 9:6 for starters.