After reading "Clergy protest abortion limits" in the BDN's Dec. 5-6 edition, my wife and I were truly appalled. Here stand three community leaders representing the person and church of Jesus Christ, yet advocating the slaughter of unborn children. This is nothing but an outrage. Clearly the Bible has no bearing on their stand with this issue. It is the sanctity of life where emphasis is given by Scripture, not a woman's right to choose. In fact, a woman's choice in forbidden fruit is what started this whole mess.
I'm not telling you that you can't preach," [John Lewis] told [William Ray Costello]. "I'm telling you that you can't be out here shouting anything, and disrupting other folks that are trying to use the same space that you are. To the city's lawyers, Church Street is a "vibrant - but peaceful - place" where people can "walk and talk, or enjoy an outdoor meal, without having to raise their voices to be heard." It is not, they say, a place for anyone to engage in "sustained yelling." Costello usually preaches with a large poster depicting a dismembered, aborted fetus, and one with the slogan "God Hates the Hands That Shed Innocent Blood." He bought the fetus sign for $60 from a website called AntiAbortionSigns.com. He's got another, homemade sign with the anti-gay slogans ''No Fags in H...
In the inverted law of Hollywood, all good things must come to an end quickly, preferably with much innocent blood spilled, and all bad things must live on interminably, preferably with much more innocent blood spilled. This week, we have two exceptions that prove the rule. Liza Minnelli found herself unexpectedly free of the nagging label of abuser (if you don't count the hordes who have been assaulted by her singing over the years) when the Manhattan Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit brought by her estranged husband, David Gest.
Politically it makes for glorious sound bite, and undoubtedly it is extremely profitable for this administration, as it pertains to its' own self serving interests. Unfortunately, when pressed against the tell tale glass of sobering reality, it all amounts to smoke and mirror politics. It is shameless hypocrisy! On the issue of assistance to Haiti, the [Bush] administration has appeared purposely inept. While this administration publicly sent a clear message to ousted, and former Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide that it would not assist him regarding Haiti's current crisis, it repeatedly encouraged his overthrow via its' daily news sound bites that called for Mr. Aristide to leave Haiti. The callous and indifferent attitudes expressed by the present administration and some o...
... I am also certain that had it been innocent blood running in the streets of Cuba as opposed to...
President Obama has betrayed the pro-democracy protesters in Tehran. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators are risking their lives to contest Iran's rigged elections. They understand that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election was a fraud and that his main challenger, former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, is the victim of a stolen election. Millions of Iranian ballots have been cast aside. In the face of a popular uprising, the theocratic regime is resorting to a brutal, Tiananmen Square-style crackdown. Dissidents have been murdered. Opposition leaders, student activists and Iranian journalists have been arrested. The feared Basij, Iran's government-backed militia, roam the streets, like fascist brownshirts, assaulting peaceful protesters and indiscriminately shooting at ral...
Q: Are there scriptures in the Torah that support your view that surrogate atonement is incorrect? I thought animal sacrifices were classic examples of surrogate atonement. Also, when God killed an animal so he could clothe Adam and Eve after their fall in the Garden of Eden, that was an example of innocent blood being shed to cover sin. If you hold to your view, how can any person atone for their sins? -- A., via e-mail A: Thanks for your question, which allows me to answer again and more deeply about the role sacrifice plays in atonement. In the biblical period, Jews offered animal sacrifices and sacrifices of incense-infused barley cakes that were burned in fire pans holding hot coals. This was done by Jewish priests using rituals that we cannot reconstruct, but which are generally d...
Would God ever damn America? Is there anything we have done or could do as a nation that might court such severe judgment from an almighty, or is there a peculiar American exemption from God's wrath? The prediction of God's damnation for bad behavior is made in both black and white churches. Clearly no less an authority on such matters than the Rev. Pat Robertson, who didn't think the latter when he blamed the ravaging effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Lord's retribution toward those who "shed innocent blood." Robertson's reference to legalized abortion cited a passage from Leviticus that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright also might have been noting when he sermonized: "The government ... wants us to sing `God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innoce...
There is a history of prominent Americans taking such action. During the Mexican-American War that began in 1846, Henry David Thoreau refused payment of war taxes and called on others to join him in resistance. "If a thousand people were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood." When Ralph Waldo Emerson visited the author of Walden in jail, he asked Thoreau, "Henry, what are doing in there?" Thoreau responded, "Ralph, what are you doing out there?
For [Sean Bell], however, we wonder whether the bell will toll. The attorneys for the defendants had no problem desecrating his memory and minimizing the value of his life. Indeed, they argued that it was [Joseph Guzman] and his attitude that caused the death of Sean, and for that reason the police should be absolved of any guilt and take no responsibility while Guzman and Sean's community have to live with Sean's blood on their hands. This argument is, in fact, reminiscent of Jim Crow's law for Black men-that even a glance at white women would be cause for death or lynching. To this, there was very little outrage from our community and almost near silence. We know from experience, of course, that silence is death. The silence excuses injustice or the unequal application of justice and ...
... died and give remembrance for loss of innocent blood. No sacrilege will be tolerated, and those t...
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