In Colorado, there is a proposition in which should it pass, will ban late term abortions in the state of Colorado. In Colorado a woman can have an abortion up to moment of birth, but unlike New York State’s horrid abortion law, should the baby fail to die in the abortion and survive, it has its God given right to life. Still there are those who oppose Proposition 115, and those who don’t understand the fight against apostacy especially in the Christian easily be misled and taken adrift from what God says in Holy Scripture.
I received a paid flyer from Abortion Access For All, the coalition that is in opposition to 115, that features a picture of a reverend named Curtis Preston who is ordained in the United Church of Christ. Before I talk a bit about the UCC, I want to point out to what Rev. Preston has said regarding HIS opposition to 115;
It troubles me deeply that the people behind Proposition 115 are trying to influence politics and make decisions for others. My faith teaches compassion. As a person of faith, I am called to support families who are struggling with their own tough decisions—not to use my faith to restrict access to health care.
For those who don’t pay attention to what the mainline dominations are up to, the United Church of Christ is basically a Protestant Christian denomination so-called with historical confessional roots in the Congregational, Reformed, and Lutheran traditions. The UCC is the oldest among the younger mainline church bodies (United Methodist, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Presbyterian Church (USA), Evangelical Lutheran Church in America), all of which were created out of church mergers. The older mainline bodies include the Reformed Church in America, Quakers/Friends, The Episcopal Church, African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the American Baptist Churches USA, not necessarily founded in that order.
Over the years, while there has been an element of teaching of the scriptures, the preservation of church liturgy and tradition, and the remembrance of the Lord’s Supper; the church mission to advance Christian justice was seduced by ideals and worldviews that were sounded good, but are not grounded in Holy Scripture. The more these mainline churches focused on justice and civil liberties, the more they lost what God considered to be justice and what his definition of liberty was. The enlightenment came and went, Karl Marx’s ideals and worldview become solidified in the culture and become known internationally as Marxism. These very churches adopted many of the ideals and teachings that came out of these movements as they continued to push civil rights causes which basically led to their embracement of modern progressivism. The UCC is the worst of the bunch for they not only support abortion rights, but any movement affiliated with progressive causes and politics…including the Black Lives Matter movement and organization. At the heart of progressivism is man’s desire to feel good and the need to do good based on what he or she thinks is good and not what God himself declares to be good.
In the end the macro progressive worldview, progressive politics and public policy; trump (no pun intended) Holy Scripture, the Law of God and what God expects of us and what he thinks of human rights, liberty, and justice. Rev. Preston is no different. I am sure he supports big government, high taxes, wealth redistribution, government run health care, race reparations (thanks to the Marxist Black Lives Matter), etc. Our mainline churches are built on the foundation of what feels good and considered good. It feels bad, then its bad. That is humanism in a nut shell. But what is good does not always feel right and the consequences are not always positive for doing right. Ask Dietrich Bonhoeffer who lost his life for warning people regarding the rise of the Nazis in Germany. The people of the cloth back in those days went along with Hitler, and many people especially the Jews paid the price…but it felt good to back Hitler, right? You had your health, wealth, and prosperity…as long as you fit Hitler’s brave new world.
As for the pro-aborts in Colorado, they will do anything they can to make abortion not only legal but acceptable and fashionable. Basically, abortion on demand is what they seek (and with “no apology”); and no different in New York State which also allows infanticide should the abortion fail to kill the baby. Much to the approval of Sarah Ragle Weddington who argued for “Jane Roe” (Norma McCorvey) and so-called abortion rights at the Supreme Court of the United States in the very early 1970’s, and helping to usher in Roe vs. Wade in 1973. When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law allowing infanticide for failed abortions, Weddington was their cheering him on. When they tell you it’s about a woman’s health…its really about a woman’s libido…and certain male sluts who don’t want to be a father. Ilyse Hogue and Jill Filipovic have admitted that women have abortions because they want the sex, just not a long procreation process. Understand people what abortion is really all about. Sexual Liberation…Stupid.
As for 115, I know some people in Colorado who call themselves abortion abolitionists who will not support this because its does not abolish abortion here and now. I am all for abolishing abortion, and I support giving the baby personhood and I support the attack on that loophole which was left in the Roe v. Wade decision, but sometimes you’re going to have do things halfway. Too many people just don’t want to discuss the real reason why these pro-abort/pro-choices are passionate about unrestricted access to abortion. We need an honest Judeo-Christian talk about S-E-X right now in a world that seeks personal pleasure, and puts its children out of the way in order to get it.
