Celebrating Roe: The religious Left prays

National Review Online ^ | 1/20/03 | Rod Dreher

[madprof98]

Wonder why they sent the children out instead of keeping them around for the "celebration."

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[RAT Patrol]

Very interesting.

[Fury]

Good read...

[Fury]

"The scar was still there," he said. "How unfortunate. How sad we didn't have someone there [during her teenage years], like we have now, to counsel that [the abortion] was not against God, that this was a choice you made because of the circumstances of your life."

This is revolting. This is from from a clergyman?

[HanneyBean]

Man, this is one of the creepiest things I've ever read regarding abortion/religion.
This church congegration is in for a BIG surprise on judgement day.

[WayneM]

At my church (Presbyterian USA, in Alabama, and conservative), this Sunday was to observe the sanctity of human life. We were reminded through selected Bible verses that life begins in the womb - not at birth, and that God knows every fibre of our being before birth. We then prayed for ALL involved in abortion - the providers and the pregnant, as well as the unborn.

[Guillermo]

Talking about any psychological consequences to abortion throws the pro abort crowd into a frenzy.

[gjbevil]

"Creepy" is exactly what I felt too!

[yendu bwam]

We gather in reverence before all intangible things — That eyes see not, nor ears can detect — That hands can never touch, that space cannot hold, and time cannot measure."

I.e., the Unitarian 'Church.'

[yendu bwam]

Do Unitarians have much interest in clear thinking, or are they content, as they say, neither to fully understand, nor be fully understood?

Unitarians have not the slightest idea what they believe in - except that whatever anyone believes in must be OK.

[yendu bwam]

Be that as it may, the Rev. Veazey was here to tell us that this kind of trauma would be upon us again if the religious community doesn't "rise up and fight those forces who are determined to roll back this God-given right."

Your God, Rev. Veazey, is the God of bloody ripped up baby corpses, the God of scissors puncturing the heads of fully formed children, the God of chemicals searing into the bodies of the unborn. There is another name for your God, Veazey, and it starts with S.

[Paul_B]

Very powerful piece. Thanks.

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

[Sam Cree]

"Unitarians have not the slightest idea what they believe in - except that whatever anyone believes in must be OK."

I can't figure out why they are even there, at their "church."

[LadyDoc]

The Mother
Gwendolyn Brooks

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Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get,
The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair,
The singers and workers that never handled the air.
You will never neglect or beat
Them, or silence or buy with a sweet.
You will never wind up the sucking-thumb
Or scuttle off ghosts that come.
You will never leave them, controlling your luscious sigh,
Return for a snack of them, with gobbling mother-eye.

I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed
children.
I have contracted. I have eased
My dim dears at the breasts they could never suck.
I have said, Sweets, if I sinned, if I seized
Your luck
And your lives from your unfinished reach,
If I stole your births and your names,
Your straight baby tears and your games,
Your stilted or lovely loves, your tumults, your marriages, aches,
and your deaths,
If I poisoned the beginnings of your breaths,
Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate.
Though why should I whine,
Whine that the crime was other than mine?--
Since anyhow you are dead.
Or rather, or instead,
You were never made.
But that too, I am afraid,
Is faulty: oh, what shall I say, how is the truth to be said?
You were born, you had body, you died.
It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.

Believe me, I loved you all.
Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you
All.




From A Street in Bronzeville by Gwendolyn Brooks, published by Harper & Brothers.

[yendu bwam]

I can't figure out why they are even there, at their "church."

They don't know themselves.

[yendu bwam]

This church congegration is in for a BIG surprise on judgement day.

What's so sad is that they are deliberately turning away from God. It's as if they are daring God to give them that Big surprise. Bad, bad mistake.

[mombonn]

I shudder at the very thought of ever entering a "church" that would deliver such a "sermon".

May God have mercy on any who do. May He open the eyes of people like "the Rev. Veazey" who preach such drivel.

[jwalsh07]

At my parish in Ct the term abortion is carefully avoided for fear it may offend. Amazing huh?

Nonetheless, we will fill up a few buses and make the trek to DC on Tuesday night to take part in Wednesday's march in DC.

[xp38]

The title would be more accurate if prays became preys.