Posted on 03/21/2018 4:42:00 PM PDT by marshmallow
DES MOINES, Iowa, March 20, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Sixty-eight faith leaders who say they are Christian signed a letter of protest against a proposed Iowa law that would protect preborn children from abortion once their heartbeat is detectable.
"As faith leaders, we want to use our collective voices to stand with Iowa women in support of their constitutional right ... to an abortion," the letter to the editor of the Des Moines Register begins. Speaking against the Iowa Heartbeat Bill, the faith leaders write supportively of a pregnant mother's "private medical decisions,” referring to her choosing abortion.
“Most Iowans, people of faith and no faith, believe in and are standing with every woman’s right to be in control of their bodies and the healthcare decisions that impact their lives. We stand with Iowa women, too,” they state in the March 15 letter.
Mainline Protestant denominations led the letter in both numbers and prestige, with a female United Methodist bishop and priestesses from the Presbyterian Churches USA, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, United Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, American Baptist Churches USA, Reformed Church in America, Unity Church, Episcopal Church, and United Methodist Church signing the document.
A fundamental point of disagreement between Heartbeat Bill supporters and opponents is on the reasons for the legislation. Opponents of the Heartbeat Bill, including signers of the Des Moines Register op-ed, claim that its framers have "arguments based only in religious beliefs," meaning the sanctity of innocent human life.
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Just what do these idiots think laws against murder and theft are based on?
I guess they can show me where in the Constitution it states that an abortion is a right, because I must have missed it.
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Some day, these “Chrisian” leaders & those who are proponents of/engage in killing babies will find out exactly what “woe to those who ...” means.
The usual suspects.
Looks like most of those who are on the list are mainline Protestant denominations which abandoned Scripture a long time ago.
I did not see any Evangelical names that I recognized.
I am almost surprised at that.
Obama: “Mission accomplished”. America will do the rest.
Jesus will say to them, “I never knew you...depart from me”.
When is the fitting for their millstones?
Tagline.
Counter-intuitive, I know, but it's true. It's just another example of the intended results being way outpaced by the unintended consequences.
Who are they? A list of names would be nice.
Anyone who can't tell the difference between a live Homo sapiens and a dead one, isn't qualified to practice medicine.
They can't tell alive from dead, they care less for a human than for a harp seal pup, they don't know how to tell a boy from a girl...
And they say we're science-deniers?
Not the Women, not the men, not the military, not the medicoes, not the Church, not the State -— NOBODY has the right to kill babies.
God always has a remnant of true followers. Looks like we’re getting down to those serious numbers.
Not a Christian faith leader in the lot. Those are heretics.
Local yokels. Interfaith Alliance of Iowa.
At the end of the story at this link-only link:
And on Judgment Day, they will say, “Lord! Lord!” But Jesus will say, “I never knew you….Depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.”(Matthew 7:21,23)
I wouldn’t want to be one of those “faith leaders” when they exit this mortal coil.
5.56mm
...The letter’s 68 co-signers are:
Connie Ryan, executive director, Interfaith Alliance of Iowa
Laurie Haller, Resident Bishop, Iowa Conference of The United Methodist Church
Rev. Brigit F. Stevens, Executive Conference Minister Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota Conferences of the UCC
Rev. Mary Newbern-Williams, Executive Presbyter, Presbytery of Missouri River Valley
Rev. Dr. Richard Guentert, Former Regional Minister and President, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Upper Midwest Region
The Rev. Wendy K Abrahamson, Episcopal Church, Grinnell...
These are not Christian leaders They are leaders of a Sunday social club that has nothing to do with Christ
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