[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.

[P-Marlowe]

What is it you are trying to say?

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

socially-conscious economics

This sounds like a page from Karol Wojtyla's book. The late Pope had many fine qualities, but a respect for the Divinely-ordained nature of Property Rights was not necessarily among them.

Personally, I think that the most "socially-conscious" attitude that the State can take towards Economics is respect for Biblical Law, which prohibits Theft and Trespass (trespass being permissible only to prevent aggression occurring upon Private Property).

If the Magistrate does not set an example of respecting the Eighth and Tenth Commandments in regard to private property, even though he should claim his violations are committed out of concern for "the poor", it undermines the Presbyter's preaching of the entire Decalogue (especially given that the Magistrate is the primary officer of the Second Table of the Law).