The 2009 March for Life Sunday, Jan 25 2009

I count it among one of my greatest privileges that I was able to attend, with my family, the 2009 March for Life in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.  An estimated 250,000 people gathered on the National Mall to protest the annual government-sanctioned slaughter of 1.2 million children.

There were young

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and old.

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There were black,

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Hispanic,

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and white.

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From Maryland

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to Massachusetts.

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From Germany

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to Italy.

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From the religious,

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to the secular,

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to the agnostic.

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From those who celebrate a life saved from abortion

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to those who mourn a life lost from abortion.

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From those who mourn the loss of a dream

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to those who mourn the loss of a child.

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All differences meaningless, we stood as one.

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May we all be united in this one cause.  And may it permeate our families from this generation

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to the next,

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until this awful scourge shall pass.

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And So It Begins Saturday, Jan 24 2009

Obama lifts restrictions on abortion funding

Oh, I’m sorry, all you evangelical Christians who voted for Obama.  I’m sorry, Rick Warren.  What did you think was going to happen?  Did you think Obama really cared about you?  Did you think he really did want to find common ground with you?  You were all had.

Your effort to show how “relevant” and modern you are worked.  You now look like everyone else.  Congratulations.  All it cost was a few million defenseless lives, in whose murders you are now complicit.  Well done.

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Well, That Didn’t Take Long Tuesday, Jan 20 2009

In my last post, published not five hours ago, I wrote,

Barack Obama will likely not think twice about committing your and my federal tax dollars to subsidizing abortion, in essence putting a government stamp of approval on the act.

And now, we hear from CNN.

Obama may use the occasion [of the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on January 22nd, 2009] to reverse the “Mexico City policy” reinstated in 2001 by Bush that prohibits U.S. money from funding international family planning groups that promote abortion or provide information, counseling or referrals about abortion services.

As this man knocks down obstacle after obstacle to abortion-on-demand, forces U.S. citizens to subsidize an act they find abhorrent, and even perhaps further takes us down the road to infanticide, as I expect him to do in his presidency, I wonder how many of the allegedly “pro-life” secularists and evangelical Christians will start to feel remorse for giving themselves over to charisma and feel-good sentimentality at the expense of innocent human lives.  As I stated in my last post, we should all be ashamed of ourselves.

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Not My President Monday, Jan 19 2009

There’s an old saying that if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.  I can certainly understand the impetus behind that statement.  No one likes to feel like a loser, and most people generally prefer to avoid conflict.  What better solution than to join the winner?  All conflict, gone.  The pain of defeat, suddenly turned to the joy of victory.  As a relative who is a classic fair-weather fan with respect to sports teams once quipped, “Every season a winning season!”  The appeal to join ‘em is present.  The appeal is acute.

But I refuse to join in the celebration surrounding Obama’s installment as our 44th President.  I won’t do it.  No matter how articulate he may be, no matter how much of an effective President he may (or may not) be, and no matter how helpful it may be to racial harmony in this country to elect a Present of African descent, none of these things changes the foundational and unavoidable fact that Barack Obama not only supports abortion, but supports abortion-on-demand.  None of these things changes the fact that Barack Obama will almost certainly appoint Justices to the Supreme Court and judges to the lower federal courts who will strike down as “unconstitutional” the slightest attempts to hinder unfettered abortion.  Barack Obama will likely not think twice about committing your and my federal tax dollars to subsidizing abortion, in essence putting a government stamp of approval on the act.  Barack Obama will likely roll over in appeasing unions, such as teachers unions, that monetarily support Planned Parenthood using member dues.  None of this is exaggeration.  And I haven’t even begun discussing infanticide.

So, no.  I will never call Barack Obama “my President.”  I will never be proud that our country has elected him.  Rather, I am ashamed of what our country has done.  I am saddened that the naïve buzz and excitement of “change,” “hope,” and a U2 concert is enough to drown out the already silent screams of those who are daily dismembered in their mothers’ wombs.  We should all be ashamed of ourselves.

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