Physician, heal thyself.
when I read these self-serving posts of you one-issue only: abortion people
When folks talk about the Pro-Life Issue, they have a tendency to do it as if they were talking about – oh, I don't know – Taxes or Social Security or Trade and we all know that there are people who have their axes to grind on this thing and that thing and the other things and you kind of pay attention to them because that's their particular schtick and we'll see what happens to it.
And we have a tendency to think of the Pro-Life Cause in that way. Even people who are part of it will sometimes act as if or think as if this is some Special Interest Constituency and therefore we operate in the way that people do in this society when they are pleading a Special Case in which they have an Interest.
All right. If I do nothing else this evening, I hope I'll be able to establish in some little way, that it is not the case. That, in fact, the cause that we gather together here tonight to support is one that is not only vital -- in that we care enough to wish to save the Individual Lives of those infants in the womb – it is one on which depends the Life and Future of our Republic … the Life and Future of our Society.
I don't think that it's at all hard to prove that. The logic is clear. It's simple. It is based upon historic facts that no one denies. And yet, very often today we seem to turn our back on it because, I guess, for a great many people it's more convenient to try to forget who we are than to remember who we are at a time that we would do so to our shame.
The facts are clear. We are a nation founded on a clear and simple premise. The fact that it is clear and simple, however, doesn't mean that it was easy to arrive at … easy to perceive … easy to apply to human circumstances and affairs. It was not.
And, in fact, in all the thousands of years of human history before this nation was founded, this particular insight had certainly been around but it had never been expressed in a form that actually led to and transformed political institutions and society.
But we are different. And in our case--I believe very much by the providence of God Almighty—we live in a country where this special insight was, in fact, applied in a way that has born great and so far lasting Truth. And the insight is quite simple. We start with the recognition that there is, in fact a Creator God. [We then] understand that that Creator takes an interest in human affairs, in human justice and is, in fact, the foundation -- by His Will -- of the right understanding of human justice and social affairs.
And that understanding is such that each and every human being stands in the sight of that Creator God Almighty equal to every other human being in their moral worth and dignity. An equality that is not based upon human power or human assertion, upon human constitutions or human attitudes and judgment but instead rests upon the will of our Almighty God. Determined by His hand, His rules, by His Choice and not our own.
America wasn't founded on some abstract notion of what human power can do and so forth. No. It was founded on the notion that every human, regardless of their station, regardless of their background, regardless of their education, their intelligence, their riches, their poverty … that every human being has a worth, has a dignity that must be respected by every human power and that dignity comes from the hand of Almighty God.If there is no God, if there is no hand, then there is no dignity … there can be no freedom.
We do not, therefore, come together here today -- just as some might people might think –because we have our particular little cause that we care about. That's something the pro-abortion people often like to say … "Well why do you care so much about that mass of tissue in the womb?" and so forth and so on. "You're just some other Special Interest" or "your Special Interest and this emotional obsession you have with fetuses" and all {…} stuff like that and so on. ...
And it won't be you who decides whether my views or wrong or right, thank goodness.
... each and every human being stands in the sight of that Creator God Almighty equal to every other human being in their moral worth and dignity. An equality that is not based upon human power or human assertion, upon human constitutions or human attitudes and judgment but instead rests upon the will of our Almighty God. Determined by His hand, His rules, by His Choice and not our own.