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Shock: Dozens of ‘Christian’ Faith Leaders Sign Letter Supporting ‘Right to…Abortion’
LifeSite News ^ | 3/10/18 | Fr. Mark Hodges

Posted on 03/21/2018 4:42:00 PM PDT by marshmallow

DES MOINES, Iowa, March 20, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Sixty-eight faith leaders who say they are Christian signed a letter of protest against a proposed Iowa law that would protect preborn children from abortion once their heartbeat is detectable.

"As faith leaders, we want to use our collective voices to stand with Iowa women in support of their constitutional right ... to an abortion," the letter to the editor of the Des Moines Register begins. Speaking against the Iowa Heartbeat Bill, the faith leaders write supportively of a pregnant mother's "private medical decisions,” referring to her choosing abortion.

“Most Iowans, people of faith and no faith, believe in and are standing with every woman’s right to be in control of their bodies and the healthcare decisions that impact their lives. We stand with Iowa women, too,” they state in the March 15 letter.

Mainline Protestant denominations led the letter in both numbers and prestige, with a female United Methodist bishop and priestesses from the Presbyterian Churches USA, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, United Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, American Baptist Churches USA, Reformed Church in America, Unity Church, Episcopal Church, and United Methodist Church signing the document.

A fundamental point of disagreement between Heartbeat Bill supporters and opponents is on the reasons for the legislation. Opponents of the Heartbeat Bill, including signers of the Des Moines Register op-ed, claim that its framers have "arguments based only in religious beliefs," meaning the sanctity of innocent human life.

(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...


TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: abortion; proaborts; prolife; religiousleft
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1 posted on 03/21/2018 4:42:00 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Post Obama, everything is up-side down and down-side up.


2 posted on 03/21/2018 4:45:18 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: marshmallow

The leftwing God haters have taken over the churches. I laughed when James Carville said this was going to happen back in the 90s. Boy, did I get this one wrong.


3 posted on 03/21/2018 4:45:31 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: marshmallow

Most of these so called LEADERS have empty buildings on Sunday morning. The only thing they lead...is their own self important notions. MOST Christians are appalled, they certainly don;t speak for the MAJORITY of people I know who call themselves christians.


4 posted on 03/21/2018 4:49:14 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: marshmallow

Those “leaders” appear to be as Christian as is Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch quota baby.


5 posted on 03/21/2018 4:49:34 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: marshmallow
To the best of my knowledge, most of those denominations are bleeding membership.

Especially the United Methodist Church and Presbyterian Church USA. Meanwhile the more conservative Presbyterian Church of America is planting new congregations all over the place.

6 posted on 03/21/2018 4:50:24 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Progressives are turning America into "Harrison Bergeron" as conceived by Ayn Rand.)
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To: marshmallow

I won’t even say “May God have mercy on their souls...”

When you trade politics for Religion, this is what you get. Paid, Professional ‘churchies’ don’t give a rat’s patootie for the Commandments.

May they burn in eternity for their perfidy...


7 posted on 03/21/2018 4:51:49 PM PDT by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: marshmallow
No surprise, exactly what Francis Schaeffer said: “If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224.
8 posted on 03/21/2018 4:53:13 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: marshmallow

9 posted on 03/21/2018 4:53:15 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: marshmallow

“Ye shall know them by their fruit”

They may call themselves whatever they like, but they’ve already been judged.


10 posted on 03/21/2018 4:53:51 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia (truth will trump their lies)
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To: marshmallow
“Most Iowans, people of faith and no faith, believe in and are standing with every woman’s right to be in control of their bodies and the healthcare decisions that impact their lives. We stand with Iowa women, too,”

What if men said they had a right to choose not be responsible for babies they fathered? The response would appropriately be 'you should have thought about that before you had unprotected sex' with your body. Why is it then different for women? They had the exact same opportunity the men had, to make the responsible decision and make a choice about how they used their bodies - before having unprotected sex.

11 posted on 03/21/2018 4:54:28 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: marshmallow

“....who say they are Christian....”

Indeed


12 posted on 03/21/2018 4:56:23 PM PDT by Ragnar Danneskjöld
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>>Mainline Protestant denominations led the letter in both numbers and prestige, with a female United Methodist bishop and priestesses from the Presbyterian Churches USA, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, United Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, American Baptist Churches USA, Reformed Church in America, Unity Church, Episcopal Church, and United Methodist Church signing the document.

I left the UMC after the 2013 Florida Annual Conference where a floor argument broke out over a resolution for pastors to counsel against abortion if a female congregant chose to tell the pastor she was planning to have one. Not to tell her no, or to bring any discipline. Just to counsel.

The female pastors were furious that anyone would even dare suggest such a thing.

Then, some male pastor got up and said something that made me feel sick. He said, “No one really even knows when life begins anyway.”

That’s not a Christian church anymore.


13 posted on 03/21/2018 4:56:32 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: marshmallow

Gotta pray for these “Christian” leaders, as they may be in for harsh judgement as they will be held to high standards being leaders.

There’s a good chance they are not Christians after all, and will be likened to the Pastor in “Left Behind”.


14 posted on 03/21/2018 4:56:47 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (Socialism is for losers.)
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To: marshmallow

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The term “Christian” is overly broad, and thus in this sense meaningless in this regard.

There are literally millions who would identify as “Christian” who haven’t the slightest idea who our savior really was or what he did when he walked the Earth.


15 posted on 03/21/2018 4:58:46 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: marshmallow

Women do not have a right to kill babies.


16 posted on 03/21/2018 4:59:53 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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As Yeshua told his disciples: “there will be gnashing of teeth.”
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17 posted on 03/21/2018 5:01:10 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: neverevergiveup

Ask abortion advocates that.


18 posted on 03/21/2018 5:03:39 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: marshmallow

In the letter supporting slaughter in the womb, the signatories described as “Lutheran” are from the XXXA, which is not Evangelical, Lutheran, or a Church (in the proper sense of the words).


19 posted on 03/21/2018 5:03:48 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Fungi

Didn’t Jeffery dahmer say something similar,?


20 posted on 03/21/2018 5:06:56 PM PDT by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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