Get Real: Talking Seriously About Abortion

Why do we so passivly accept the tragidy of abortion in this country? Abortion is one of the greatest moral issues of our time...and this is not simply a woman's issue. It effects us all.

It's very easy to paint anti-abortion candidates as the bad guys when the only certain reasons for abortion (i.e. rape, incest) are used to make a case against their viewpoints. But in reality, less than 1% of the abortions performed annually are because of rape or incest. My hope is that as a nation we can stop with the rhetoric and start looking at this issue seriously. Human lives are at stake and if roughtly 3,500 humans were killed for any other reason, American's would not remain silent.

Why do we so passivly accept the tragidy of abortion in this country? Abortion is one of the greatest moral issues of our time...and this is not simply a woman's issue. It effects us all. And for those who remain silent because they don't want to 'judge' others -- remember that silence is acceptance. It was acceptance during the years of the holocaust, during the years of slavery and Jim Crow laws in this nation. There is a word that can correctly be used when a person is willing to stick up for those who can't stick up for themselves. The word isn't judgmental, intolerant or even hateful, it's honorable.

What's the Beef?

I was at Walmart last year (and yes, I have repented of this sin) purchasing a pepperoni pizza and some lunch meat, to include ham, among other things.

The woman ringing up my groceries scanned almost all of my goods and then pressed a button which setup the light at her station. I assumed she needed a price check or something? About 30 seconds later another woman showed up (who appeared to be a supervisor) and scanned my pizza and lunch meat and then walked away. I was immediately brought to the realization that the woman ringing up my groceries was a Muslim and was obviously unwilling/unable to touch any of my groceries which contained the contaminated substance called “swine”.

How did I feel at that moment? Umm, well to be honest a bit uneasy. I felt as if somehow I was degenerate simply because I am a connoisseur of pork. But on the other hand, I guess the tolerant-pluralistic-hand (must be my left hand) I thought to myself, if this woman has a moral reason not to touch some of my groceries, then I guess regardless of how it makes me feel, I should honor that. My thought process was that if the roles were reversed, I would want the same courtesy as well. So we both moved on and she remained “clean” and I ate a ham sandwich when I got home.

So then you take what we have in the wonderful state of Iowa. Where recently their rogue-government took it upon themselves to speak for the people of this great state and legalize same-sex marriage. And, as if this wasn’t bad enough, as some of the clerks with consciences are trying to be conscientious objectors to this moral corruption by declining to hand out marriage certificates...[Queue the Outcry] instead of finding a clerk that will grant them their godless marriage license, the offended parties instead cry foul (aka HATE) and we have a full-fledged controversy of discrimination.

The war against Christians wages on….