By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews.com
Screen grab of the press conference announcing the September 12 National Higher Ground Moral Day of Action.
Many Judeo-Christian leaders speak out against abortion, but the few who advocate for abortion often are the ones who get the most media attention.
On Monday in Kentucky, pro-abortion clergy held a rally at the State Capitol to advocate for abortion and other issues, the State-Journal reports. The event was called the Higher Ground Moral Day of Action, and it was held in conjunction with other rallies nation-wide.
Led by clergy, the event highlighted the upcoming election and called on candidates and elected officials to uphold “the most sacred moral principles of our faith and constitutional values.” These included “the economic liberation of all people; ensuring every child receives access to quality education; healthcare access for all; criminal justice reform; and ensuring historically marginalized communities have equal protection under the law,” according to the declaration.
Among other issues, the declaration called for the defense of abortion as “health care” and a woman’s “right.” In this way, the declaration omitted unborn babies from its call to stand against “systemic racism, classism, poverty, xenophobia, and any attempt to promote hate towards any members of the human family.”
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Higher ground moral day of action? Yet, the term morality does not apply to actions regarding the unborn. In these cultural times, words can mean whatever the writer or speaker wants them to mean. Sort of by floating definition not anchored to anything. And the defection of some in the clergy to the cultural winds…….?
Preposterous! Judeo-Christian theology is pro life, as in “You shall not commit murder,” the sixth commandment. Judeo-Christianity also requires celibacy and monogamy. How many pregnancies are aborted in celibate, monogamous relationships? The sin of abortion is usually preceded by the sins of fornication and adultery.
I really wish that they would point out the Presbyterian denomination these clergy belonged to. The other Split P’s are getting tired of saying “We’re not THOSE Presbyterians!!”.
With all due respect, I look at their group picture, and I think, “If only their mothers had exercised their moral right to choose.”
Wow. It continues to amaze me how people in the PC(USA) and other so-called mainstream protestant faith organizations can so willingly be misled. They are flying upside down and don’t know it.
“… challenging the theological malpractice of the so-called ‘religious right’ that attempts to limit the moral discussion in the public square …”
Does the religious right do that? Is it not the secular left that limits religious moral discussion in the public square? This new “Higher ground” social justice movement, as with nearly all of progressive Christianity, seeks to cede more and more power to the government — in complete solidarity with the secular left. That will not have a good outcome and they should know it.
More and more, the social justice dominated denominations seek to bring about a human-imagined kingdom through external, secular human government, rather than transforming society through lives changed by individual response to the sovereignty of God that is enabled by the love of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.
From the article: ‘Alonzo Johnson, coordinator for Self Development of People at the PC(USA), also attended and spoke to the dire need for peacemaking in our local communities, nationally and in the world. “We’ve spent more money on war than programs to help house, feed or provide health care for our own people,” he said, speaking about his father—an Air Force veteran—and the substandard health care he received following his military service.’ So he knows the health care provided by the government for a small slice of the population (the Veterans Admin health program) is terribly substandard – and signs on to an agenda that seeks to put the rest of the population into the same bad situation.
The key points of the “declaration” are described as “the most sacred moral principles of our faith and constitutional values” but are really just the watchwords of the secular left, couched in political and theological language distant from its original meaning.
Here are the key points, reproduced from the link:
1. Prolabor, antipoverty, antiracist policies that build up economic democracy through
employment, living wages, the alleviation of disparate unemployment, a just transition
away from fossil fuels, labor rights, affordable housing, direct cash transfers, social
safety nets, and other support for all families struggling to get by, and fair policies for
immigrants; and by critiquing policies around warmongering that undermine our moral
standing and ability to address domestic issues;
2. Equality in education by ensuring every child receives a high quality, well funded,
constitutionally diverse public education, as well as access to community colleges and
universities and by securing equitable funding for minority colleges and universities;
3. Healthcare for all by expanding Medicaid in every state, ensuring access to Medicare
and Social Security, moving decisively towards a universal, transparent, and equitable
healthcare system, and by providing environmental protection and protecting women’s
health;
4. Fairness in the criminal justice system by addressing the continuing inequalities in the
system for black, brown and poor white people and fighting the proliferation of guns;
5. Voting rights, women’s rights, LGBT rights, labor rights, religious freedom rights,
immigrant rights and the fundamental principle of equal protection under the law.
This list completes how many progressive bingo cards?
Sleepers, wake! Start flying right side up before you crash and burn.
Abortion stops a beating heart. In short, abortion is a clear act of homicide. How any Christian could so ignore the commandment “thou shall not kill” and advocate for such a thing goes beyond the pale. I cannot in good conscience be part of a church that would allow such a thing: killing is killing, and killing babies in the womb is the worst. Count me out.