Without Sanctity of Life, No Life Matters

They just keep coming – A new video from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP).  The video, along with the previous videos, continue to uncover Planned Parenthood’s (PP) gruesome commerce in infant body parts.  This includes commerce in intact cadavers, with an executive of one of its client firms laughing about it.

This video has provoked a new round of demonstrations by thousands across the nation to continue to raise awareness about the sickening, inhumane, and uncivilized behavior of PP … that is tolerated in our nation … and funded by our tax dollars (more than $500 million dollars annually).

How can we be expected in America to seriously consider ‘fairness’ when our tax dollars go to the nation’s largest abortion provider (327,653 abortions performed in its fiscal year 2014) which then engages in trade with the remains of these infants?  By what standard can Americans speak about social justice?  What is right?  What is wrong?

It appears to have escaped many American minds that we have two choices about where to turn to get our standards for truth: either traditional Biblical sources or popular (political) culture.

No people in America have suffered more as result of turning moral standards over to the nation’s political class than blacks – Yes, during the administration of our first black president.  Yet blacks … despite (on average) having the highest church attendance in the country … continues to allow politicians to define morality.

The ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement is supposedly about social justice.  Their supporters express outrage at the sentiment that “all lives matter” … claiming this denigrates and trivializes the unfair treatment of blacks in the criminal justice system.  But how do you define fair or unfair behavior toward particular lives in a society that politicizes the most serious questions concerning life itself?

In August 2008, when then-Senator Barack Obama, Democrat candidate for president of the United States, sat in Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Orange County, CA, and was asked by Pastor Warren, “At what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?”  Obama replied, “Well, you know, I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective, or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my paygrade.”

A man who has no absolute standard for defining the onset of life has been elected twice as America’s president, with 95% of blacks voting for him.  And we wonder why the country is confused?  Blacks wonder why justice is politicized and unfair?  Fair based on what?  What a politician decides?

According to the Center for Disease Control, 36.2% of abortions in 2011 were performed on black women … about 3-times the percentage of black women in the female population.  Blackgenocide.org estimates that there have been 16-million black abortions since legalizing abortion in 1973.  It seems blacks themselves have decided that black life is cheap … and doesn’t matter.

In 1970, 3-years before Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, around 55% of black adults were married.  By 2010, this was down to 32%.  In 1970, around 30% of black women who gave birth did so out of wedlock.  By 2010, this was up to 72.5%.

The politicization of truth … of absolutes about right and wrong … has taken a toll on all of America.  But in this regard, blacks are hit the hardest.

Republican candidate Trump is campaign to make America great again.  Well listen: Restoring our culture begins with personal responsibility, not political rhetoric.  All lives will matter when we restore our national respect for the mystery and sanctity of life.  It begins by ending taxpayer funds going to PP – to cease supporting the most degrading, dehumanizing, uncivilized activities that the human mind can imagine.  By doing so, we will demonstrate that Americans can once again respect themselves and as a result, respect each other.

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.

Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army

Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel