Volition

Film Captures the Personal Implications of Imago Dei



Here is a Film [click to watch] that you must see! It is just fifteen minutes in length but I saw it at Randy Alcorn's Blog and it was pretty powerful. Recently an editor at one of our local weeklies editorialized that Abortion is Not Murder because kids from 'religious' homes are having them and abortion foes are not resisting as they would if someone were gunning down a busload of elementary school children. His argument fails to see that throughout history other great evils have been accepted by even good people in a society.

Just because a course of action is popularly accepted and most follow it does not make it less of an evil. Many Christians owned slaves and I'm sure there were fine principled people serving in the German government. Can we legitimately argue that the holocaust was not murder because church members were working in the camps? Volition does a great job of showing how the right choice has often been the road less travelled in historical perspective.

Notre Dame

I hope anyone who feels like the editor at our local weekly saw the entire scope of what happened this week at Notre Dame. Alan Keyes and an Eighty Year Old Priest were arrested for protesting the President's speech and honorary degree. While the protest was pretty tame compared to campus protests of the past, these protesters were willing to put themselves at risk to save unborn children.

The slipstream media largely ignored a peacful prayer vigil and protest by 3000 students [who could legally protest on their own campus]. Many of them chose to not attend their own graduation. Sean Hannity was one of the few media people who gave the protest the coverage it deserved.

Read More About the Protest [click to read] here.

Abortion IS Murder [click to read] from The Valley American, an excellent response to "Eighty-One's" editorial.

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano [click to read] has a new book out: Dred Scott's Revenge [check it out]. The book is a look at how creating sub-classes of humans who are denied basic constitutional rights leads to bad things.

"The U.S. Supreme Court once decided that the government can declare a class of humans, i.e. blacks as non-persons. One hundred years later the highest court in the land concluded that babies in the womb are also non-persons. The horrible lesson here is that both courts defined who does and who does not have rights and that government has no natural or constitutional limits on it.”