Posted on 08/09/2015 11:30:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
From Rabbi Adland:
My involvement with Planned Parenthood, which eventually led to my position on the PPFA Clergy Advocacy Board, began after Roe v. Wade in 1973 when my mother served as a delegate to the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights. Her advocacy for this issue and her desire to see that all women have full control over their personal medical decisions moved me. Beginning in the late 1980’s I began serving on a local board for Planned Parenthood and rose to become president. Many religious voices have been raised against Planned Parenthood, but I believed that progressive understandings of the Biblical text needed to be heard, and I committed my voice and passion to this cause.
From Rev. Martha (Missy) Shiverick:
More than a decade ago I heard The Rev. Tom Davis speak about the sacred work of Planned Parenthood and was moved by his message and its truth. The Rev. Davis was a founding member of the Clergy Advocacy Board (CAB) of PPFA. He brought together religious leaders across the country from many faith traditions whose faith led them to support the work of Planned Parenthood. For many of us, our belief in the God of the Hebrew Scriptures, who calls people to work for justice and equality, also calls us to work for the reproductive rights of all women. Among our work, we have written pastoral letters of support to patients to be placed in our health centers that offer abortion services, we have written theologically based position statements to counter many of the religious right’s positions on topics such as access to birth control, stem cell research, and this year in supporting the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare
Far-left clergy defend PP, leave out key word
The 400-word statement somehow defends Planned Parenthood and women’s “fetal tissue” donations without using a key word – “abortion.”
http://www.onenewsnow.com/church/2015/08/07/far-left-clergy-defend-pp-leave-out-key-word
Walton has an explanation for the radical views of the advocacy board – some of them are homosexual activists and others are former abortion providers themselves. They represent a “far-left group,” he says, that really doesn’t represent any “thriving” congregations in the U.S.
In fact, several preach to no more than 60 members on a Sunday morning and represent liberal denominations that are dwindling in membership.
Margaret Sanger did say that PP needed a few black pastors to say what they were doing is good so that black women would not get the idea that PP was trying to exterminate blacks - which is exactly what they are doing.
Pastortution.
Rev. Susan Russell is an Episcopal priest and activist from Pasadena CA. A past-president of Integrity USA – the 30-year old national Episcopal gay caucus -- she is a founding member of the Human Rights Campaign’s Religion Council, a member of Planned Parenthood's National Clergy Advisory Board
Disgusting!
Lachina is in his early 70s and no longer appears to be active as a minister or pastor attached to a church
PP identifies Maykus as affiliated with Christian Church Disciples of Christ in Indianapolis, IN, but the church’s website does not have her as either a minister there or a staff member.
Sattler is a former PP abortionist who now practices as a GP at:
1 Harpst St # 42, Arcata, CA 95521
Zonneveld calls herself an imam with a lower-case “i”. She runs Muslims for Progressive Values in Los Angeles, CA:
Looks like funding Planned Parenthood is a violation of separation of church and state.
Doing the memory of the nazis proud: 55 million and counting.
The religious left. Few groups are more annoying.
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