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An item I saw on

An item I saw on Town Hall caught my eye today, a column by Dennis Prager A Jew defends Evangelical Christians. Mark Shea notices it too, and states a position I agree with, so let me link to his words. To this I only add that I find it strange that the Christian motive of love, borne out of the desire for someone else's salvation and prosperity, could be labeled as hate by those who do not understand or believe the Gospel.

About a month ago, at the end of the Jewish festival of Sukkoth, some Messianic Jewish friends of mine took me to a Messianic service in Philadelphia. Amazing worship service, these people really love the Lord! They put most of the charismatics I've ever known to shame. Loud singing, dancing, raising hands, a sermon about John 7, where Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Jews' Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkoth), and blowing the shofar! This type of service is not for those who like to sit still! The position that Jews cannot be Christians, held by conservative and orthodox synagogues, is not held by the evangelical community; while Jewish converts to Christianity can be expelled from their synagogues, there are Messianic synagogues springing up around the country to accomodate those who "store new wine in new wineskins" (see Matthew 9:10-17).

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Dispatches from Outland refers me to National Review Online today, Aborting Child Protection, where Planned Parenthood is exposed as acting to protect the confidentiality of young women (aka girls) seeking abortions, even when their pregnancies may be the product of statutory rape. This issue was also highlighted in World magazine several issues ago. Good job on shining the light on these folks and exposing this practice. My position is that abortion confidentiality is an abrogation of parents' rights and laws protecting such confidentiality should be overturned. I don't think we can realistically expect to overturn Roe vs. Wade; I agree with Mitch McConnell that it is pretty much settled law. I would at least prefer to see some reasonable limits to the abominable practice of abortion, however. It's not a violation of anyones' rights, as there is absolutely no such thing as a right to abortion. That "right", created ex nihilo by those who wish to do away with any boundaries of sexual behaviour, directly conflicts with the first right -- the right to life.

Religious Leftists have told me that my position is not valid because I'm mixing religion with politics. I remind them that many in the nineteenth century church (including many from their denomination, the Unitarians) were active in abolition. Wasn't that mixing religion with politics too? They say "No! That was a human rights issue" I say "So is this! And that is indeed the reason I came around to a pro-life point of view". Should I remind them that the two icons of early feminism, Susan B. Anthony and Ellen Stauton, were also pro-life?

Posted by joelfuhrmann at October 23, 2002 10:39 PM