I haven't watched the second hour yet, it's still sitting on our DVR, but I watched the first hour of the Saddleback Civil Forum where Pastor Rick Warren interviewed Barak Obama and John McCain individually. It took place on 8/16 and was shown on CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, FoxNews, PBS, and a few other channels.
Warren has already proven he is out more for political gain than leading people to a saving relationship with Jesus Christ and he threw a lot of softball questions to make Obama look good.
The part that made me most angry is when asked when a baby gets human rights Obama replied that the decision was out of his pay grade and proceeded to inform the audience he was pro-choice not because he's "pro-abortion" but because he knows it’s not an easy decision that women make. Later in the interview, Obama mentioned that the US should work to end genocide in other nations. Well, I ask then—what abortion is called? Isn’t it the extermination of unwanted life? Isn’t that genocide?
Abortion means the end of a child’s life. It’s that simple. It’s not about the privacy of what a person can do with their own body. Our way of life is murder the children but by all means let’s make sure we don’t use too many bags at the grocery store. In the words of a Casting Crowns song, "We are sung to sleep by philosophies of 'save the trees' and 'kill the children.'"
For those that believe a woman has the right to choose, what about that baby’s right to live? Even if it’s a right to choose, does that make it right? I have a right to be a drunk, but that's doesn't make it right. Is there any question that it’s a human growing inside that womb? You can’t scientifically argue that it’s anything other than a human being, so why don’t they deserve human rights?
I looked up North Dakota’s abortion statistics on the state’s official web site. In 2006 the local “clinic” in Fargo killed 1298 children. That works out to be a little more than 24 per week. Since the legalization of abortion, the US has exterminated more than 40 million children, with less than 1% because of health problems of the mother or rape. Who will speak up for the truth here?
There are times that I can't sleep on Wednesday nights because I know that Thursday is abortion day at the Fargo abortion "clinic." It's difficult for me to go to work just a stone's throw from that building where 20+ women each Thursday go to "terminate their pregnancies."
Pardon me for being rude, but we are a selfish nation, and we need to wake up and return to the truth.
“For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear” (2 Timothy 4:3).
