Post by Gary on Feb 8, 2019 11:53:09 GMT -6
Friends, an important law restricting abortion in Louisiana has been temporarily placed on hold pending full review by the Supreme Court. This means we don't yet know how the justices will rule, although based on the stay, it appears that the Chief Justice will be the deciding vote. In light of this, I've prepared a letter and will be sending it to him imminently. I would ask that you pray over this letter with me and also pray over the Chief Justice and all the justices on the Court as they decide this issue.
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To the Honorable John Roberts,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States:
I’m writing to you from the heart, with emotion and desperation, but I’m also keenly aware of your legal and sacred duty to follow the laws of our country impartially. You know more than anyone that justices must rule justly and not on whim or feeling. But as much as any good judge wants to hold to that ideal, justice and the heart are not entirely separable. Everyone is informed by their past, friends, and beliefs. Those things determine what one considers to be “just.”
For a great many Americans, including myself, I’m informed by the belief that no right is higher, no freedom greater, than the right and freedom to live. If you don’t have life, you have nothing. I’m also informed by the belief, enshrined in our Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal by the Supreme Lawgiver. And what are men, but those of the whole human race?
Lastly, I’m informed by the beliefs held by a long line of great men and women of faith who were so moved by the grace of God that they moved mountains for justice, even under great and persistent persecution. Men like William Wilberforce and Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Richard Wurmbrand.
Sir, I pray you would be just such a man of faith. I pray you will be strong to ignore the noise and assaults from both sides of the political aisle and simply listen to the only Voice that matters—the Voice of God. It’s God who made all men equal, of both genders, of all races, and all ages. He makes the person in the womb and knows their form before any human eyes behold them.
The blood of sixty million cries out for justice—and the blood of hundreds of millions more who have died around the world because of American influence on this issue. No argument will ever—however clever or shrouded in philosophy or upheld by modern ethics—outweigh the right of innocent persons, made in the image of God, to live. Autonomy? What about the child’s autonomy? Convenience? What about responsibility? Health? Does that nebulous term outweigh the actual life of a child of equal value to their mother?
A society that kills its own children is nearing its end. I pray that God would use you to bring our country to repentance. Sir, I would argue that so much of the sourness in modern political discourse stems from this issue. Virtue, responsibility, patriotism, and common brotherly kindness regardless of political affiliation, have been replaced with obscenity, rage, and polarization because as a society we can’t even agree on something so simple and foundational as what a person is and that persons should not be deprived of life except by due process of law.
Overturning Roe would be a small, but important step—at least giving Americans back the ability to debate the issue and pass laws in the states on conscience. But it’s not far enough. God has given you and your associates on the Court the tool you need to fully uphold the law, while also establishing justice for these the most innocent and precious among us: the Fourteenth Amendment. Every person, whether born citizen or not, is entitled to the right to their life. And even if Roe is soon, God-willing, overturned, it would be virtually impossible under the current political climate to generate enough public support for a federal constitutional amendment protecting children. Yet no new amendment is needed. The one the country needs already exists.
No doubt, the immediate persecution and insults from political opponents are hard for a season, but history is made by God. In it the righteous shine like the stars in heaven. God uses all of us for His glory, whether we oppose Him or, much better, yield to His unstoppable purposes.
God’s ultimate purpose to end the mass murder of children will not be stopped and whether now, or 30 years from now when someone willing steps forward, His purpose will not be thwarted.
I pray the grace of God finds you where you are and your own purpose becomes clear. There will be blessing and grace for our country if we turn back to Him. And even for the countless mothers and fathers who’ve taken part in the slaying of their own children: there is grace for them, too. For Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again, and we have peace with God through the shedding of His blood.
Sincerely yours in hope,
Gary
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch; like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
“I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.”
- Norma McCorvey
“The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.”
- Norma McCorvey
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To the Honorable John Roberts,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States:
I’m writing to you from the heart, with emotion and desperation, but I’m also keenly aware of your legal and sacred duty to follow the laws of our country impartially. You know more than anyone that justices must rule justly and not on whim or feeling. But as much as any good judge wants to hold to that ideal, justice and the heart are not entirely separable. Everyone is informed by their past, friends, and beliefs. Those things determine what one considers to be “just.”
For a great many Americans, including myself, I’m informed by the belief that no right is higher, no freedom greater, than the right and freedom to live. If you don’t have life, you have nothing. I’m also informed by the belief, enshrined in our Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal by the Supreme Lawgiver. And what are men, but those of the whole human race?
Lastly, I’m informed by the beliefs held by a long line of great men and women of faith who were so moved by the grace of God that they moved mountains for justice, even under great and persistent persecution. Men like William Wilberforce and Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Richard Wurmbrand.
Sir, I pray you would be just such a man of faith. I pray you will be strong to ignore the noise and assaults from both sides of the political aisle and simply listen to the only Voice that matters—the Voice of God. It’s God who made all men equal, of both genders, of all races, and all ages. He makes the person in the womb and knows their form before any human eyes behold them.
The blood of sixty million cries out for justice—and the blood of hundreds of millions more who have died around the world because of American influence on this issue. No argument will ever—however clever or shrouded in philosophy or upheld by modern ethics—outweigh the right of innocent persons, made in the image of God, to live. Autonomy? What about the child’s autonomy? Convenience? What about responsibility? Health? Does that nebulous term outweigh the actual life of a child of equal value to their mother?
A society that kills its own children is nearing its end. I pray that God would use you to bring our country to repentance. Sir, I would argue that so much of the sourness in modern political discourse stems from this issue. Virtue, responsibility, patriotism, and common brotherly kindness regardless of political affiliation, have been replaced with obscenity, rage, and polarization because as a society we can’t even agree on something so simple and foundational as what a person is and that persons should not be deprived of life except by due process of law.
Overturning Roe would be a small, but important step—at least giving Americans back the ability to debate the issue and pass laws in the states on conscience. But it’s not far enough. God has given you and your associates on the Court the tool you need to fully uphold the law, while also establishing justice for these the most innocent and precious among us: the Fourteenth Amendment. Every person, whether born citizen or not, is entitled to the right to their life. And even if Roe is soon, God-willing, overturned, it would be virtually impossible under the current political climate to generate enough public support for a federal constitutional amendment protecting children. Yet no new amendment is needed. The one the country needs already exists.
No doubt, the immediate persecution and insults from political opponents are hard for a season, but history is made by God. In it the righteous shine like the stars in heaven. God uses all of us for His glory, whether we oppose Him or, much better, yield to His unstoppable purposes.
God’s ultimate purpose to end the mass murder of children will not be stopped and whether now, or 30 years from now when someone willing steps forward, His purpose will not be thwarted.
I pray the grace of God finds you where you are and your own purpose becomes clear. There will be blessing and grace for our country if we turn back to Him. And even for the countless mothers and fathers who’ve taken part in the slaying of their own children: there is grace for them, too. For Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again, and we have peace with God through the shedding of His blood.
Sincerely yours in hope,
Gary
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch; like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
“I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.”
- Norma McCorvey
“The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.”
- Norma McCorvey
