Young evangelicals: Ignoring right to life as social justice issue?
Again and again I see young social justice-focused evangelicals abandoning any effective voice for the unborn for the sake of an ephemeral, culturally-fashionable concept that as a practical matter means little more than advocating a utopian ideal through a grab-bag of banal, functionally socialist policies. Moreover, the embrace of social justice often drives them functionally into the arms of a political party and political movements that are dedicated to protecting and even subsidizing the “right” to kill children on a vast, industrial scale….
[I]n exchange for adopting fashionable leftist policies… the social justice Christian Left has thrown under the bus the most vulnerable citizens of this (or any) culture — unborn children….
So, please, let’s drop the false moral pretense of “social justice.” You’re not fooling anyone. You’re a leftist seeking leftist solutions to known cultural problems, and in so doing you’ve elected to side with those who seek the legal right to intentionally kill children.
Oh, you may claim to be pro life even as you work diligently to maintain and increase the power of those individuals and institutions that advance and protect our abortion regime, but you’ve made your choice in the real world.
~ David French, Patheos, June 13
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Preach it, Mr. French!! On my mountain, we have a group called the Cumberland Center for Justice and Peace. They often stand on our town’s on major intersection and protest the Iraqi and Afghan wars, and lately, the big bee in their bonnet has to do with TN requiring a government issued to vote. Civil Rights! Violation! Victimization! Oh, and don’t get me started on the environmental issues–a new rock quarry!!!?? The WORST THING EVER.
Mention that social justice begins for people at the beginning–in the womb–and they will enter into apoplectic harangues, throwing out words like “anti-science”,”fundamentalist”, “privacy”, “judgmental” and CC/joan’s 2 favorites: “patriarchy” and “misogyny.” WANTING THE UNBORN TO BE BORN IS SO….UNJUST! I have even been called a forced birther by one of the local parish functionaries.
I used to think Hell would be a long day at Chuck E. Cheese. But it’s really being lectured at by an Obama-leftist on social justice for 10 minutes.
Added my stamp of approval. Forwarded to Ex-RINO.
X, where is ex-Rino? Crickets!
“Moreover, the embrace of social justice often drives them functionally into the arms of a political party and political movements that are dedicated to protecting and even subsidizing the “right” to kill children on a vast, industrial scale…”
It’s one (totally unacceptable) thing to ignore the killing while focusing on other (far less worthy) issues. It’s another (absolutely unacceptable thing) to support “choice” if even inadvertently in the name of … well, anything! Failing to see the whole picture is ignorant and undermines most goals of social justice. I have heard John Wayne Gacy’s legacy used to describe such thinking. Horrible serial murderer. Clown who made kids laugh.
X – just a general question – there’s no forward or anything on this site, correct? Only way to see news or questions from people is to subscribe or stumble across it.
And Courtnany, I was at work!
So the contrary to what he is saying is flock to the Christian right, and all will be well – is that you folks’ take on it?
I saw a Nevada “Parole Board” show today. One inmate began his odyssey through the system when he was 9. He went into some sort of foster care or “boys’ home” because his family couldn’t care for him.
Often people “age out” of the foster care system and into homelessness. Many in prison were once in foster care.
Do you consider overhauling the foster care system important?