By John Piper, DesiringGod.com (originally posted 8/22/15).
This morning [8/22/15] I was one of several thousand people who gathered in St. Paul, Minnesota, to say to Planned Parenthood that killing children is not an acceptable response to crisis pregnancies. And to say to our government that killing children should not be funded by tax dollars. Among other things.
Here are seven short reflections on the morning.
Christian and Ecumenical
The gathering this morning was explicitly Christian. The name of Jesus and his Lordship were on the lips of the leaders. We sang praises to God and to the Victor, Jesus Christ. This is a beautiful thing — that the public stand for justice for the weakest in our society would be carried by the followers of Christ. We have a great salvation, and that this would be one of the fruits is wonderful.
It is no secret that the Roman Catholic Church has been the religious backbone of the pro-life movement for forty years. I thank God for this persevering clarity on the reality and dignity of unborn human life. I am not a Roman Catholic, but happily stood with them in this common cause of justice for the unborn. When the time comes, we will have our knock-down, drag-out arguments over the sacrificial Mass, baptismal regeneration, and the precious doctrine of justification by faith alone. But each thing in its own season. This morning the issue was this: God is weaving human life in the womb in his image; don’t kill what he is creating.
My sense is that the Catholics were outnumbered this morning. But maybe they will let us have that little tribute since we are playing catch-up.
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We have become a nation where we kill our babies and baby our killers. The fact that my own church (pcusa) never said a word about the PP scandal speaks volumes about the priorities of the louisville sluggars.
You do question the judgment of a leadership that remains silent on those videos and opposes restriction on late term abortion, yet feels compelled to comment favorably on every piece of liberal social engineering. What kind of religious philosophy compels one to demand a $15/hour minimum wage as social justice but also allows the same person to ignore the killing of a viable baby?
Amen