No Neutrality

One-issue Voter? You Bet I am!

 John Piper puts it best:

No endorsement of any single issue qualifies a person to hold public office. Being pro-life does not make a person a good governor, mayor, or president. But there are numerous single issues that disqualify a person from public office. For example, any candidate who endorsed bribery as a form of government efficiency would be disqualified, no matter what his party or platform was. Or a person who endorsed corporate fraud (say under $50 million) would be disqualified no matter what else he endorsed. Or a person who said that no black people could hold office—on that single issue alone he would be unfit for office. Or a person who said that rape is only a misdemeanor—that single issue would end his political career. These examples could go on and on. Everybody knows a single issue that for them would disqualify a candidate for office.

Read the whole thing.

When "Life" becomes "Dangerous"

 Unbelievable.

The ground is shifting on the abortion debate, and the most significant issue here is the impact of modern imaging technologies -- the view into the womb. Sophisticated multi-dimensional imaging technologies, such as Ultrasound, allow us to see the fetus at very early stages of development. What we see is clearly human, as the images are seared into our minds and hearts.

A Thorough-going Repentance

I felt a surge of joy when I read this article today.  Like the apostle Paul centuries ago, Mrs. McCorvey finds herself in the position of being one who "formerly persecuted the way" but now, by her own confession is one who has "...been saved by the blood of the lamb through Jesus Christ" and knows something of God's grace.

As the "Jane Doe" whose lawsuit was the springboard for that fatal decision of Roe vs. Wade, Mrs. McCorvey's testimony is unique in its power. 

Fox News reports:                       

On Tuesday, McCorvey plans to ask the high court to vacate its 1973 Roe v. Wade  ruling, which remains a lightning rod for debate.
The court allows parties to its judgments to ask the court to vacate — or overturn — rulings.
McCorvey, now a born-again Christian, challenged Texas' abortion ban under the pseudonym Jane Roe.
In recent years, she has become a outspoken opponent of abortion, arguing that the procedure may harm women and goes against Christian teachings.
"I would like to see children stop being killed and women maimed and dead themselves," McCorvey said Monday on FOX News' "Hannity and Colmes."

Those of us who sense something of the evil of this continuing national sin can take hope.  God is at work even in the most unlikely of us.

Treating The Unborn Like Terrorists

In an absolutely devastating piece in yesterday's American Spectator, George Neumayr reduces the Left's opposition to Alberto Gonzalez to complete rubble.  Framing the arguments against Judge Gonzalez in the broader context of the Left's worldview, Neumayr lifts the debate from petty squabbles about the particulars of this or that memo, and shows how this attack is of a piece with the mindless, upside-down moral universe that the Left inhabits.  A moral universe that is in straits because of the potential harm that might come to known criminals, but is annoyed at the suggestion that unborn children have a right to live.

Incidentally, THIS is the type of analysis to me that proves most beneficial.  A fundamental, deep, and farsighted look into the heart of the enemy (and I use that word carefully)   using a particular incident or occasion as a vantage point.  Arguing isolated events and positions of the Left without respect to their relatedness misses the overall picture of what the Church in America faces.  Put the various pieces together, like this attack on Alberto Gonzalez and the support for partial-birth abortion alongside one another as Mr. Neumayr has done, and you suddenly obtain a clear picture of the other side.

What emerges is not an incoherent, fragmented, or distorted worldview, but a consistent, God-hating (and, by extension LIFE-hating), justice-hating movement that calls good "evil" and evil "good."   THIS is what the Church faces.  Not Chuck Schumer, not Hillary Clinton, not the ACLU--none of them alone or even together.  What the Church faces is an oppositional spirit, satanic in its origin, that has set itself against the God of the Bible and His law and seeks to work out its hatred toward God through our culture.

The words of Isaiah are searching as he looks across the centuries right into the heart of present-day America:

Isaiah 5:18-30

18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, And sin as if with a cart rope; 19 That say, "Let Him make speed and hasten His work, That we may see it; And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, That we may know it." 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! 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight! 22 Woe to men mighty at drinking wine, Woe to men valiant for mixing intoxicating drink, 23 Who justify the wicked for a bribe, And take away justice from the righteous man! 24 Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble, And the flame consumes the chaff, So their root will be as rottenness, And their blossom will ascend like dust; Because they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Christians in America have to get serious and come to grips with what we are facing both in ourselves and in our decaying, godless culture.