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WHY Defend Planned Parenthood?

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One thing has been made crystal clear in the wake of the videos from the Center for Medical Progress, and especially the public reactions of those who still support Planned Parenthood: the fierce dedication to the preservation of one thing: abortion.
But why?  If, as I’ve been told, feminism is really not about abortion, but is simply a struggle for equal rights for everyone, why do the supporters of PPFA defend this one “right” so dogmatically, so uncompromisingly, so blindly?
Can you divorce the actions of Planned Parenthood from feminism? This is all done in the name of feminism, according to its spokespeople everywhere.
It’s time to wake up and smell the implications. They comparisons to be made to Nazi atrocities are easy, obvious…and undeniably fitting.
A question to ponder for women who consider themselves feminists:
Why do you cling to an ideology that requires you to believe that others’ lives are less significant than yours;
and that you must have the unqualified legal right to take the life of another human being, or else you are not able to count yourself truly free;
and that you must conceive of yourself as oppressed if your right to end another person’s life is infringed in any way?
It’s time to reexamine this peculiar ideology, this house of cards which balances all of our rights as women upon one tenet: the right to destroy our own offspring.
It is undeniable now that feminism ‘s spokeswomen and movers have made abortion the foundational element of feminism…its litmus test, its entrance exam, its base, its essence.
Again, why do we want to be feminists?

 

Do Not Be a Cowardly Fool

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It is surprising to see people who are invested full-time in Christian missionary or social work so confused. Witness:

World Vision: Why We’re Hiring Gay Christians in Same-Sex Marriages  and

World Vision Reverses Decision To Hire Christians in Same-Sex Marriages.

Here’s a quote from article #1:

“It’s easy to read a lot more into this decision than is really there,” he said. “This is not an endorsement of same-sex marriage. We have decided we are not going to get into that debate. Nor is this a rejection of traditional marriage, which we affirm and support.”

Let not any Christian think he will avoid testifying. We will all be called to be accountable to the rulers of popular opinion. We will not have the opportunity to avoid the question. We will not escape into obscurity.

There is no third way.

We will have to testify as to whether we are pro-gay marriage, or not. And the question will be that simple.

Or whether we are haters, bigots and the hated marginalized. The test will not be on our terms, and there is no third option.

The litmus test is:

Do you believe that people should be free to love?

Do you believe that everyone should be entitled to marry the person of his choice?

We must decide now whether we will stand for the truth or whether we will become trash. If we do not stand firm and tell what is True, we will at first receive a nod of approval from the social arbiters.

But then we will quickly be brushed aside as inconsequential, and that will be true. We will be irrelevant; we will have joined the ranks of enablers, to be used when useful.

We will have lost our distinctiveness from the world.

If we do not speak the truth, then we speak lies.

And we will be trash because we are no longer of use to the Truth either.

You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. Matthew 5:13

Let’s Try Kindness

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How about if we try kindness? I see way too much of short-tempers and touchiness. I see too many relationships which ought to be, and could be, heaven on earth, but which fall far short.  I have to watch while one, or both, hurt the other one seeming not to feel any empathy for the pain caused. People taking for granted that they’re going to be treated well while taking for granted the human gift that’s been given to them.

People who just give the other person a world of hurt when they could be enjoying a mutually loving and caring relationship. Offered happiness and unconditional love, we choose our personal agenda. I wonder what could we be thinking?

It’s hard to watch people lower the bar on their own relationship, as though the offender will benefit in any way. If the bar is lowered, it’s going to be lowered for both of you. Or do you mistake forbearance and patience for a lack of feelings? Do you actually think that your partner will take what you dish out, and persevere in holding up his side of the kindness burden alone, forever?  You must think an awful lot of him; in fact, you must think he’s not even human.  Because any human being is going to get enough of being treated selfishly one day. He will then have three choices: he can decide to diminish so much that he’ll let you pummel him into a doormat whom you won’t respect, or he will decide not to take your crap anymore, and give it back to you. Or he’ll decide that someone else will actually respect him and treat him as though he’s loved.

You say it’s because you can’t respect him? That says nothing whatsoever about him. It only says something about you.

If you can’t respect someone who consistently treats you with kindness, sympathy, patience and hopeful attention, in the face of irritation, selfishness of feelings, and dismissal, and does not return anger for anger…you just aren’t able to respect.

And you are missing the obvious:  God has given you an unbelievable gift, one which you ought to treasure, and you are ungrateful.

What if, instead of looking for irritation, putting our personal agendas before other people’s feelings, and imposing on the other person’s patience and love, we decide to be considerate? Just plain polite (even if we don’t actually feel happy about it)?  Seek not to hurt them at cost to ourselves? How about if instead of serving our own childish temporary feelings, we decide to serve the people God has chosen to be our companions in life, as we are called to do?

What would we lose?

How about if the law in our houses, from now on, is kindness? What if we adopt a standard that even some non-believers who never set foot in a church are able to pull off?

What if we put kindness and love (verb) first, and make it the going expectation here?

Because love is a shelter against most troubles in life, but no relationship can withstand consistent unkindness.