Dear Editor:
This is a reply to Tina Dupuy’s column on “illegal” abortion decrying Kermit Grosnell’s putrid abortion clinic in Philadelphia.
I guess “legal” abortion is done in a pristine situation. Says who? Says you, says me, says God?
The murder of the innocents, this holocaust, in a place or form is (an) abomination to the living God of our holy Bible. God says the blood of the innocents cries out to Him from the earth for His vengeance.
There is a lot of that blood spilled in America each day. Dupuy calls abortion a political football when it is really a moral issue about right and wrong, sin versus rightness.
God also says rightness exalts a nation, but sin, evil and wicked acts are a reproach to all the people of that nation. We cannot say and sing “God Bless America” while such a vile practicie of sin exists and is made “legal” in our beloved homeland.
No one profits from abortion. Ask a woman who has had one.
Tina Dupuy is an award-winning writer — in whose sight I ask? She is in a sinking boat and taking others down with her in her anti-God beliefs. Reflect on God’s truth, not mankind’s opposing opinions, and perform it.
Choose life.
Nancy K. Schwartz
Boiling Springs
I’ve said many a time that I respect those who attempt to live their Christian beliefs. Then there are those who use their Christianity like a club with which they attempt to bludgeon unbelievers into meek submission. Ms. Schwartz represents the sort of intolerant, inflexible, devoid of compassion “Christian” who wouldn’t recognize the Gospel of Jesus Christ if the Good Lord His Own Self handed it (along with an instruction manual) to her Himself. Bible thumping may make them feel pious and righteous, but at it’s most basic it’s an exercise in rank hypocrisy.
There’s a strain of Christianity that would install their belief system as the ultimate law of the land, decimating the rule of law and the separation of Church and State. In so doing, dominionist theocrats would rule based on their inflexible and intolerant interpretation of the Bible. Non-Christians would be relegated to second class status until sufficiently “enlightened.” Tolerance, compromise, and understanding are viewed as clear evidence of personal weakness. Nowhere will you find concepts like love and charity.
Ms. Schwartz and those who think and believe as she does are free to work to end abortion…as long as they do so within the law. The problem is that so many of them feel that their Christian beliefs places them outside the authority of man-made law. When you sincerely believe that you answer only to God, what you’re advocating is a recipe for anarchy and religious tyranny.
Roe v. Wade is not merely an inconvenient historical and moral aberration; it’s the law of the land. The Supreme Court in 1973 guaranteed women the right to a safe and legal abortion. The goal should be to make abortion safe, legal…and RARE. Throwing Ms. Schwartz’s hyper-religiosity and intolerance at the problem solves nothing. It does, however, expose her as being about as conversant with the teachings of Jesus Christ as she is with the concept of cold fusion.
This is America, where you’re free to believe as you choose, but you don’t get to force your narrow theology on others. And you certainly don’t get to violate the law to do so. When you’re part of a movement that recognizes “God’s law” because it comports with your personal prejudices, you’re as much about the teachings of Jesus Christ as Jeffrey Dahmer was about vegetarianism.
