By the way, this isn't to interrupt what's shaping up to be a sweet conversation in the comments of the election post, but two things have happened that I feel like talking about:
1) Virginia Tech shootings
As a nation we discussed 24/7 for two weeks the comments made by Don Imus and the fallout that followed. Talks about whether he should be fired, whether hip hop artists should be allowed to say what they say, is there a double standard, why are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson's opinion matter, who can say what? The Virginia Tech shootings put it all in perspective don't they? We have a problem. White, black, yellow, red, orange, blue or purple, everyone has a problem. It's called sin. And until people are willing, by the grace of God, to address their problem as sin, to "call it what it is", we will continue to fall. We will continue to be selfish, proud, arrogant, uncaring, greedy and petty. We will continue to put ourselves above others. We will continue to make racists, sexists comments, and then blame hip hop music. We will continue to be judgemental and hypocritcal. And we will continue to murder in cold blood 33 college students, 33 daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, simply because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. God help us.
2) The ban on partial-birth abortion.
In case you missed it, the Supreme Court upheld a ban on partial-birth abortion (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266724,00.html) What cracks me up is the Democratic presidential candidates response to it.
“I strongly disagree with today’s Supreme Court ruling, which dramatically departs from previous precedents safeguarding the health of pregnant women,” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said. “As Justice Ginsburg emphasized in her dissenting opinion, this ruling signals an alarming willingness on the part of the conservative majority to disregard its prior rulings respecting a woman’s medical concerns and the very personal decisions between a doctor and patient.” Hillary called it "disturbing" and John Edwards said it is a "stark reminder that Democrats can't afford to lose in 2008." Obama's statement was the most hilarious of them all. He obviously doesn't care at all about the particulars of the ruling and simply wants everyone to think it is about abortion in general. What the court ruled was that this particular method of abortion is not protected by a "women's right to choose." This method is to partially remove the baby (or fetus, if you'd rather) from the mother's womb and then crushing to cutting it's skull (just to make sure it doesn't survive out of the womb.) The Supreme Court simply ruled that it's gruesome, inhuman and never medically neccessary.
Of course, the next logical questions is; "since when do cells have skulls?"
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This is crazy. So we can't kill a baby when it is partially removed, but we can kill it when it is still fully in the womb? Where is the line? Is it drawn when we simply are uncomfortable with it, so therefore it is wrong because the collective groupthink says it is so? God help our country.
as for the VAtech stuff, i wrote some things on my blog, like every other blog I have checked out for the past two days:-)
Ok, just to keep everything intellectually honest. Isn’t abortion ordained by God? Certainly there were murders happening in Jesus day and he doesn’t address them. (I can’t just post this and leave it as my thought) I’ve actually had people say this to me before so…there it is.
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