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United Methodist Minister: Abortion Clinic Shows “a Reverence for Life” by Killing Babies
LIFE NEWS ^ | October 9, 2015 | Dave Andrusko

Posted on 10/09/2017 10:11:17 AM PDT by Morgana

No, I did not make that quote up. It flowed from the lips of the Reverend Laura Young, explaining to thinkprogress.org why she and others from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice are blessing Preterm, a local abortion clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.

And, no, I did not make up “blessing” either.

Who is the Rev. Young? I did a quick check in the Columbus Dispatch. From one story I learned

This year, Young, a United Methodist minister in the West Ohio Conference, was assigned by Bishop Gregory Palmer to serve as executive director of the Ohio Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. The coalition, which had gone about two years without a director, had fallen largely quiet. Young aims to change that.

Calling herself a “progressive theological thinker and a feminist,” Young said goals include encouraging clergy members to testify at legislative hearings on anti-abortion bills and advocating for organizations that provide women’s health care, including abortions and contraception.

The story, by JoAnne Viviano, concludes with Rev. Young pining for the good old days, “Before the Roe v. Wade decision,” when “clergy members were ‘on the front lines.”

“Clergy have not been vigilant,” Young said. “People of faith have not been vigilant. So these rights and this access has eroded.”

So “vigilant” means, for example, lobbying in Ohio against a measure to protect unborn babies capable of feeling excruciating pain as they torn apart limb from limb. And against measures to protect unborn babies from losing their lives because they are diagnosed with Down syndrome, or involving parents in the abortion decisions of their minor daughters or requiring that abortionists (many of whom parachute in a few days a month) have admitting privileges at a local hospital when they botch an abortion.

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But “vigilant” also means straightening out the “misguided faith” she sees at Preterm. Of course the “misguided faith” is most decidedly not ending the lives of God’s children, but rather is the province of those who peacefully tell women as they enter Preterm that there is a better way.

Rev Young insists they are hurling hate and judgment which leads women to later question their decision.

“Is that loving God? she tells Alex Zielinski rhetorically. “Is that loving your neighbor as yourself?”

But she is just getting started. “There is a reverence for life that happens in this clinic,” Rev. Young pronounced. “And the decision to get an abortion is often a really, really, spiritual decision. Even if someone personally wouldn’t get an abortion, they should at least understand this.”

Who is the “neighbor” closest to the pregnant woman? Her baby.

Is using steel tools to tear apart a well-developed unborn child by brute force an act of love?

Is God honored, let alone loved, when His children are killed because they are girls rather boys, “imperfect,” “unwanted,” or because their arrival is not penciled in on the day planner?

Would it be a “spiritual decision” if a woman (or a man) decided that birth is an arbitrary line of moral and legal demarcation and thus it is okay to kill the child a day later, or a week later, or a year later?

In what universe is this a satisfactory answer: “I wouldn’t personally murder my newborn, but I can at least understand how someone else would”?

Enough of this nonsense.


TOPICS: Mainline Protestant; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: abortion; methodist; prolife
Pray for those left in the Methodist Church.
1 posted on 10/09/2017 10:11:18 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

You know, the Inquisition was cruel and terrible. But seeing this kind of thing kind of makes it understanding in a way.


2 posted on 10/09/2017 10:14:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Morgana

I have met some really whacky methodists in the past so this doesn’t surprise me...


3 posted on 10/09/2017 10:18:21 AM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: GraceG

There were Methodists in my family and they have to be turning over in their graves. Have not been to the cemetery lately but this is because don’t have the money to rent a steamroller.


4 posted on 10/09/2017 10:20:31 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: BenLurkin
Abortion Clinic Shows "a Reverence for Life" by Killing Babies

That is a curious interpretation of "reverence" by any definition. Of course, some folks might think that spitting in your face is the moral equivalent of shaking hands. Total lack of empathy or of any sense of shame.

5 posted on 10/09/2017 10:27:57 AM PDT by alloysteel (Guilty until proven innocent, while denying defense, justice, mercy or any appeal. No pardon, ever.)
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To: Morgana

Reverence? How does this UMC minister reconcile this with ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’? Astonishing.


6 posted on 10/09/2017 10:37:59 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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To: Morgana
Isaiah 5:20--- Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

The 'Minister' should try reading her Bible sometime.

7 posted on 10/09/2017 10:50:49 AM PDT by tflabo
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To: BenLurkin

On this logic, it is quite understandable to understand the Nazis.


8 posted on 10/09/2017 10:54:52 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Morgana

Bizarro World


9 posted on 10/09/2017 10:56:05 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Goblins, Orcs and the Undead: Metaphors for the godless left.)
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To: Morgana
the Reverend Laura Young, explaining to thinkprogress.org why she and others from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice are blessing Preterm, a local abortion clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.

Rather than a blessing I think they should be performing an Exorcism.

But then again, perhaps The Reverend should have an Exorcism herself.

10 posted on 10/09/2017 10:56:39 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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To: shanover

i think you mis-understood my post.


11 posted on 10/09/2017 10:57:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Morgana
Calling herself a “progressive theological thinker and a feminist,”

What exactly is she progressing toward?

I suggest she think long and hard on that matter and on wether she really wants to get there.

In my estimation it is not a destination any Christian would want to strive for.

It seems to me that this place would be filled with fire and brimstone.

12 posted on 10/09/2017 11:07:58 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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To: Morgana

When you have a church office of promoting abortion (”Ohio Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice”), what else can you expect?


13 posted on 10/09/2017 11:22:02 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Morgana

I am daydreaming about fun ways to kill this whore! - JK...


14 posted on 10/09/2017 11:50:47 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: Morgana

That makes no sense.


15 posted on 10/09/2017 12:41:11 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Morgana

Straight from the mouth of Satan.


16 posted on 10/09/2017 12:44:24 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Morgana
18Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.

19They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.

1 John 2:18-19 NASB

17 posted on 10/09/2017 2:15:01 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Morgana

These types'll kill you with a smile!

18 posted on 10/09/2017 3:14:23 PM PDT by avenir (The LORD says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.")
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To: Morgana

A reverence for life would mean letting the baby live.


19 posted on 10/09/2017 3:41:16 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Morgana
Many Jews, written about in the OT, thought that they could worship God and idols, sacrificing their children to Moloch, burning them alive. God hated them for this. He called them to repentance. They didn't. They ended up horribly, horribly punished.

Even worse, these so called Christians are calling for His children to be murdered and ripped out of their very mother's wombs, even in His Name. Without repentance, these people will be punished beyond their ability to imagine it.

20 posted on 10/09/2017 4:53:34 PM PDT by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus?)
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