Posted on 08/20/2015 4:55:45 PM PDT by Morgana
United Church of Christ Minister Tom Davis recently offered blessings to Planned Parenthood after videos were released showing their top executives haggling over the price of aborted babies’ body parts and explaining ways they alter abortion procedures to obtain “fully-intact human cadavers.” Unbelievably, the most recent video catches Planned Parenthood harvesting the brain of an aborted baby who was still alive.
However, some in the religious community are standing by the abortion company even though well-known religious leaders, such as Rev. Franklin Graham and Baptist theologian Albert Mohler, have expressed outrage over the footage. In fact, World Magazine reports that Davis says churches have supported Planned Parenthood’s abortion business for years and they’ve worked “below the public radar with mainline Protestant and Jewish clergy to build alliances with the abortion company.”
In his book, Sacred Work: Planned Parenthood and Its Clergy Alliances, Davis explains the difference between their beliefs and other religious denominations. He writes, “Ultimately the conflict between the opponents of Planned Parenthood and its clergy defenders is a theological one.” He argues that abortion proponents embrace “a form of humane theology” and suggests that others don’t.
Davis does mention that some religious leaders work above the radar and openly express their support for Planned Parenthood. For example, Presbyterian Church (USA) minister, Andrew Kukla, explained on his blog that he loves everything about the organization. He said, “I love Planned Parenthood. I love the people that are Planned Parenthood. I love their ministry. I love that they live resurrection in a way I only talk about it.”
Additionally, Episcopalian clergy members have shared their dedication to abortion and abortion groups in the past. In 2012, Lesbian Episcopal priest, Katherine Hancock Ragsdal, told Congress: “I recall vividly one day when I left my home to pick up a 15-year-old girl and drive her to Boston for an 8 a.m. appointment for an abortion. I did not take her across state lines, nor did I, to my knowledge, break any laws. But if either of those things had been necessary to help that girl, I would have done them.” Ragsdal garnered media attention in 2007 when she said, “abortion is a blessing and our work is not done.”
As LifeNews previously reported, on July 29, the Planned Parenthood Clergy Advocacy Board said the undercover videos exposing the organization’s organ harvesting business are simply an attack on women’s health care.
Jeffrey Walton from the Institute on Religion and Democracy reports that the board is made up of religious leaders from the United Church of Christ, Episcopal Church and American Baptist Churches as well as clergy from Reformed Jewish and Unitarian Universalist congregations.
In a statement the clergy said, “As faith leaders committed to justice, honesty, and liberty, we are troubled by the decades-long campaign of harassment against Planned Parenthood and those they serve. Our faiths demand care for those marginalized by poverty and other oppressions. Faith leaders have supported Planned Parenthood for nearly 100 years because of our shared goals: every person — regardless of income, race, or religion — deserves access to safe, affordable, high-quality health care.”
They concluded, “Our religious traditions call us to offer compassion, not judgment. People who work for Planned Parenthood give care and respect to those in need, doing God’s work. For this we are grateful.”
Is Tom Davis a woman?
Satan
The devil’s preacher....
One out of many thousands actually.
Seems to me that United Church of Christ Minister Tom Davis blessed one of the pits of Hell.
Maybe he should go in there and cut open baby faces for their brains.
**Jeffrey Walton from the Institute on Religion and Democracy reports that the board is made up of religious leaders from the United Church of Christ, Episcopal Church and American Baptist Churches as well as clergy from Reformed Jewish and Unitarian Universalist congregations. **
Strange group to not be protecting children.
My old church was merged into the United Church of Christ. What a mistake, putting a rather conservative church into this liberal hellhole. Many members left and I quickly found and joined a Bible Church. Meanwhile my old church has struggled to maintain financial solvency. They even tried becoming the most “gay friendly” church in town, but still failed to offset the exodus of older members. In addition to gays, they stressed service to the less fortunate, even going so far as to allow homeless to sleep in the church. Unfortunately, that led to theft and building damage. Today they barely exist financially, having bled out the endowment fund to cover budget shortfalls. Come to think of it, this is a pretty good analogy of what our government is doing and where we are headed if our politicians don’t change course.
Our religious traditions call us to offer compassion, not judgment.”
so does ours. including not judging those pre-born as worthy of the death penalty.
Galatians 1:6 -9 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. 9As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
Davis: “I love Planned Parenthood. I love their ministry. I love that they live resurrection in a way I only talk about it.”
Ragsdahl: “Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done.”
To these people, the child-killing butchers of ISIS are saints in Heaven.
Incredible!! Simply deplorable, in the name of Christ!
I can’t get my head around: “I love that they live resurrection in a way I only talk about it.”
I don’t even understand what that means. Did he mean “vivisection”?
Sounds to me like God cleansed His church. The righteous were led in the right direction. The lost stayed and withered away.
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