GUEST COMMENTARY BY RANDALL TERRY
It is Our Duty Before God to End Child-killing.
God will give us the Grace.
We Can use the Healthcare Debate as one of the Steppingstones to Victory.
I often fear that we fail to grasp the magnitude of our duty to end child-killing, and that we often doubt the inevitability of our victory against this holocaust.
It is certain that God Almighty hates the killing of the innocents. God gives the gift of life, and then commands: You Shall Not Murder. He hates the shedding of innocent blood. (See Proverbs 6:16-19 and Psalm 106:37-42)
Hence, we can declare with absolute certainty that God wants this holocaust end. That being said, we must ask ourselves the tough question: if God wants child killing by abortion to end, why have 50 million babies slaughtered, with no end in sight?
The problem is not with God -- obviously -- it is with us. We are His hands and feet. We are His missionaries. We are the body of Christ. We are the ones commanded to love our neighbor as ourselves, to rescue the innocent, to protect the fatherless, and to seek justice.
After 35 years of the killing fields, and 50 million dead, it is time to reassess what has been done, what has failed, and what we must do to secure complete and total victory: the abolition of legalized child killing from conception until birth.
As I have studied the social revolutions of the past, I have learned that the "irate, tireless minority" that drives the debate - and moves steadily from the fringes to the halls of power - seizes moments and creates crises that embody their struggle and highlight the injustice that they are fighting.
One need only study the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s to learn from one of the best guidebooks on social revolution written in 100 years. For example: Rosa Parks was one little black lady, whose "feets was tired," but with the wisdom and courage of a handful of civil rights leaders, they seized on the opportunity presented by their racist adversaries, and turned one small incident of injustice into an epic struggle that resulted in a glorious victory for liberty.
Yes -- Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders received horrible press -- but they fought like warrior poets until they prevailed. Yes -- the confrontational tactics and incendiary actions and rhetoric of civil rights leaders and activists made many enemies -- but it was a required fare for victory.
I have been steadily dismayed at many pro-lifers around the country who fail to recognize the connection between seizing the moment and creating a crisis for justice, and the ultimate victory for the justice they seek.
Think back over the last few months: how much of the pro-life movement has fought courageously against the modification of the conscience clause for healthcare workers? How many traveled to Notre Dame to denounce President Obama's speech? How many fought deliberately against the nomination of Sotomayor to the Supreme Court?
Each of those battles in their own right were battles worth fighting, and battles worth losing. But beyond that, they provided golden opportunities to drive the injustice of child killing to center stage. Each of those battles could have been used by every pro-life group in America to decry the brutal murder of children; to call for the end of legalized child killing; to mobilize a public outcry in defense of the unborn. But for the most part, most groups and leaders said little, and did even less.
Let's fast-forward to the health care debate. Thankfully -- a few more leaders and groups are speaking out against child killing in health care -- but is it enough? The response to child killing in health care from many groups and individuals has been tepid, non-confrontational, "quiet and reasonable," and generally without effect.
Beyond that -- if it had not been for the efforts of a handful of pro-lifers in Washington DC and around the country who followed the confrontational and incendiary example of the civil rights movement and other social revolutions -- child-killing would not be a critical and dominant part of this debate. But because of these efforts, every major news outlet acknowledges that the fight to keep child killing out of this bill is at center stage. The Wall Street Journal called it the "new front".
I repeat: it is precisely because certain pro-life advocates refuse to passively and timidly "dialogue" about child killing that child killing is resuming a central location on the political horizon. It is because we are confrontational, irate, and righteously belligerent. Those who put politeness ahead of justice commit sin. Those who want to appear "reasonable" and "prudential" may be trapped in the sins of pride and the fear of man.
How can you "reason" with villains who want to crush the heads of little children? How is it a virtue to be "prudential" when the Nazi guard is about to drop a gas pill into a "shower" filled with Jews and Christians?
Do YOU Want to be the Sledgehammer!?
My question to every pro-lifer is simple: do YOU want to end child killing?
I'm sure you want child-killing to end; I'm sure that you want it to be over; but my question is this: do YOU want to be the sledgehammer in the hand of God that smashes this citadel of injustice? For example: most of us want the hungry to be fed in the subcontinent of Africa; likewise, most of us want somebody else to take them the food. "Yes, I want them fed. No, I do not want to board a plane and trek up mountains to feed them!"
While I grieve the lack of clarity and valor that has been displayed by many pro-lifers over the last six months, I'm equally certain that we can break the shackles of fear that bind us, and strip off the muzzle of timidity that silences us, and put on the armor of God. We can talk and act in accordance with reality: abortion is murder: the brutal, merciless slaughter of innocent human being. And we will fight against it the with all our hearts until we crush it.
Let us fight to drive child killing from the health bill, doing so in such a way that gives us the momentum we need to drive child killing out of our nation and back to hell where it came from.
Come to DC sometime between September 9 and September 23.
If at all possible, please come to Washington DC anytime between September 9 until September 23.
Starting Wednesday, September 9, until Wednesday, September 23, we will be preaching and protesting, lobbying and leafleting on Capitol Hill. Every weekday we will preach to the Capitol Hill staff from 8:30-9:30 a.m. as they go to work at the entrances of the various Senate and House buildings. Then from 10 AM to 12 noon will be in front of the Cannon office building protesting, while others of our group go inside to meet with every single US Senator and every single U.S. House member - or at least meet with their staffs.
We are not professional lobbyists; we are not interested in their dinner parties; we are not interested in getting invited to some slick event. We want to end child killing. In the meantime, we want to obliterate child killing from the health-care bill, and then use this momentum towards our inevitable victory to crush legalized child killing underfoot.
I hope you will join us.
Go to www.OverturnRoe.com for the easy-to-view schedule.
Finally, we beg your prayers. These are intense days, and we face fearsome enemies. But with the help of God -- who made heaven and earth, and who gives life to these babies -- we will prevail in a mission to end child killing.
In Christ's Wounds kept.
Randall Terry
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