abortion | right to life ⁽³¹⁾

I just posted a comment on a Salon.com article by Mary Elizabeth “Kill ’Em All, Let God Sort ’Em Out” Williams. My comment should appear here, but my own testing of the link has not yielded positive results. If your results are equally bad, feel free to simply read my comment below. “Yet,” Williams writes, “a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose…

I continue to sign online petitions. While not so deluded as to believe signing these will have any influence on policy (all my representatives have strong ideological commitments, either in agreement with or opposed to my own, so that no change in their actions or rhetoric can realistically be expected), signing them does make me “feel better” for a time, and I hope gives some encouragement to those who have gone to…

Alas, I remain incapable of achieving extremest-of-the-extreme status. Compared to blogger Justin Edwards (a man likely more pious than myself), even my cherished pro-life convictions seem moderate. Edwards proposes a ban on abortion without even a self-defense (preserve the life of the mother) exception. In response to this proposal, I posted the comments below. (I've changed the URL in this version, since the original uses a customized domain that may no longer…

Featured image inspired by Wikimedia Commons user Shubjt’s animated GIF, “Not equal to symbol in math and computer,” which see. U-T San Diego letter writers have continued trying, within the U-T word allowance for letters (125 words per the letter editor's email to me a while back, though the paper's posted guidelines only warn vaguely against being too “lengthy”), to debate whether “marriage” should be redefined to include homosexual unions. Leonard Foster's…

One of my former seminary professors, Glen Scorgie, recently posted an article accusing politically conservative Christians of “exploiting” Billy Graham by getting him to endorse (Glen says “allegedly” endorse) Mitt Romney over Barack Obama in the upcoming presidential election. (As Glen is Canadian, he will not be voting for either.) I initially limited my response to a one line, “Just a brief note of my wholehearted support for...the right-leaning pastors politicizing their…

Fox News has posted an interesting article about how some African-American Christian leaders are suggesting their followers should sit out the 2012 election because of (most notably) Obama’s newly “evolved” support for same-sex marriage: “African-American Christians waver over vote” (Associated Press, 16 September 2012). (The article also discusses reasons these leaders find Romney objectionable.) My question: If Obama’s support for gay marriage merits a recommendation to sit out rather than vote for…

Rape and abortion are wrong for the same reason. Image courtesy DeviantArt user NickSeraph (Creative Commons license). The material below I originally prepared August 2012 as a letter to the Editor of the U-T San Diego newspaper. Unfortunately, I was informed by U-T staff that letters are limited to 125 words, which perhaps explains why they rarely seem worth reading. While one can easily “spout off” in 125 words, simply asserting conclusions…