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Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not
hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." Matthew 19:14
Planned Parenthood Is God’s Work
Claim So-called Christian Pastors
By de Andréa, Opinion Editorialist
for ‘THE BOTTOM LINE’:
for ‘THE BOTTOM LINE’:
Published August 15, 2015
In particular, he says, those claims come from Planned
Parenthood's "clergy advocacy board," whose members are defending
the abortion giant after the secretly recorded videos exposed the dissection and sale of murdered baby
body parts.
"They effectively claim God's endorsement for Planned
Parenthood," Walton says of the clergy
group. "They say that that employees of Planned Parenthood are 'doing
God's work' and they basically say that this is an organization that is
providing high quality care that 'does the best of what religious traditions
do.'"
The clergy group submitted a lengthy statement last
month condemning the videos as a "smear campaign" and
claiming that Judaism, Christianity and Islam condemn such "dishonesty and hate."
I don’t find it peculiar that Muslims think it is their god Allah’s work that
they kill everyone in sight including Christians and Jews, Baby’s and innocent
men and women. But Christian pastors and
Jewish Rabbis? Has Satanic Islam now completely taken over the minds and
spirits of all humanity?
Rather than respect religious liberty and individual conscience
as they should, the clergy group wrote. "Some seek to impose their values and
work obsessively to limit access to health care on individuals despite the fact
that denial of health care may have a tremendous impact on their
families." What about
imposing your twisted values on those innocent unborn children? Don’t they have a right to health care, or
at the very least the right to live???????? What a bunch of hypocrites…
The 400-word statement above somehow defends Planned Parenthood
and the sale of human baby body parts without using a key word – "Murder." Or Abortion
for that matter. They use to hide behind the word abortion while
committing murder now they just ignore it altogether. An example of this is hiding behind the term “After Birth Abortion” while committing Infanticide. Oh yes! That’s next…
Planned Parenthood, in fact, is the largest baby murder for hire in
the United States, performing 327,653 last year or an average of 37 per hour, approximately 60 million since Roe v
Wade.
So who are the Planned
Parenthood Clergy?
Since beginning my
original article about the Planned Parenthood Clergy Advocacy Board, I haven’t
been unable to access the linked list of board members due to Planned
Parenthood pulling down most of its web site.
Fortunately, a cached version of the page is available.
The network of 14 clergy members from a variety of denominations who support
Planned Parenthood is reproduced below.
STATEMENT OF BELIEFS.
·
We believe that clergy have a special responsibility to bear
witness in support of reproductive rights so that the public and their elected
representatives may understand d the
theological and moral basis for reproductive rights.
·
We believe that family planning and responsible sex
education are the most effective methods of reducing the need for abortion.
Clergy must help parents reach and teach their children by providing medically
accurate and age-appropriate sex education in their congregations and in their
local communities and schools.
·
We believe that both men and women have an inherent right to
reproductive freedom that this freedom includes the right to abortion, and that
abortion is a complex moral and ethical issue that cannot be resolved by
solutions that are simplistic or cruel.
·
We believe that ultimately the decision about abortion is a
matter between a woman, her conscience, and/or her God, and that those close to
her should offer support in any way they can.
Who are these clergy who
praise the work of the largest Murder provider in the United States? Hardly a
rogue’s gallery of Religious Left boogeymen, the list is more likely to evoke a
collective “huh?” from readers otherwise familiar with activist clergy.
Eight are Christian
pastors, three are Reformed Jewish rabbis, one is Muslim, one is a Unitarian
Universalist and one is an adherent of Universal Sufism. Of the pastors, three
are Episcopalians, two are Congregationalist (UCC), two are Baptist and one is
affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). I’ve reported a few
interesting tidbits about each clergy person below.
So-called Christian Pastors:
The Rev. Susan Russell
All Saints Episcopal Church
Pasadena, CA
Episcopal
The Rev. Susan Russell
All Saints Episcopal Church
Pasadena, CA
Episcopal
Russell, who serves as
Vice-Chair of the board, is an associate priest at All Saints Episcopal Church
in Pasadena, California, the only sizeable Christian community on this list.
One of the largest Episcopal parishes on the West Coast, All Saints has been
politically active on left-leaning issues for many years. Russell herself is
past president of Integrity USA, the Episcopal Church’s unofficial LGBT caucus,
as well as two-time elected deputy from the Diocese of California to the
denomination’s General Convention.
Ames is Priest-in-Charge
of All Saints Memorial Church in Providence, Rhode Island. All Saints has steadily dropped
from 190 members and 70 attendees to 85 members and 60 attendees from
2003-2013, the most recent reporting year. The church’s plate-and-pledge giving
is only about $100,000 a year, and the parish appears to be limping along on
foundation grants and an insurance payout.
Davis, past chair of the
Clergy Advocacy Board, is a retired Skidmore College Associate Professor of
Religion and College Chaplain. Davis served on the national board of Planned
Parenthood Federation of America from 1992-1998 and is also a member of the
state board of the New York State Family Planning Advocates, and the Religion,
Culture, and Public Policy Board of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen
Pregnancy.
While Davis does not
currently pastor a congregation, he is known for an abortion-themed book, Sacred Work: Planned Parenthood and Its Clergy Alliances.
The Rev. Dr. Gawain F. de
Leeuw
White Plains, NY
Episcopal
White Plains, NY
Episcopal
De Leeuw is rector of St.
Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in White Plains, New York. St. Bartholomew’s has
dropped from 320 members and 80 attendees to 60 members and 50 attendees from
2003-2013, the most recent reporting year. The church’s plate-and-pledge giving
is only about $100,000 a year.
Jones serves at the
independent Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in West Palm Beach, Florida
where he is Minister for Youth and Young Adults. A former staffer at Planned
Parenthood of Greater Miami, Jones also serves on the Interfaith Clergy
Alliance Board.
Planned Parenthood
Washington State Chaplain Vincent Lachina pictured above, earned notoriety in
2011 when he proclaimed at a Mississippi legislative hearing on a state personhood
amendment that “I am an ordained Southern Baptist minister.” Lachina is
actually affiliated with the United Church of Christ and American Baptist
Churches USA. His chaplaincy is full-time and he does not pastor a
congregation.
Lopez has served as pastor
of Salem United Church since 2012 and was an associate minister with the
congregation for one year prior. The congregation has attendance of around 150
persons.
Maykus was principal of
the College of Pastoral Leaders at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
from 2003 – 2010, she also served as director of church relations at
Disciples-affiliated Texas Christian University. She later served for two years
as Vice President for Operations and Organizational Development for the
denomination’s Church Extension Financial and Missional Resources. Maykus
served on the Board of Directors of NARAL Pro-Choice Texas. Maykus is not
listed with a congregation, and is now operations director at a solid waste
hauling company in Austin.
Non-Christian Clergy:
Jon Adland has served as
chair of Planned Parenthood’s Clergy Advocacy Committee since 2007 and Rabbi of
Temple Israel in Canton, Ohio since 2011. He previously served congregations in
Indianapolis, IN and Lexington, KY, where he was President of the Board of
Lexington Planned Parenthood from 1989-1995 and on the board of Planned Parenthood
of Indiana from 2005-2010.
Ross has served as
director of Concerned Clergy for Choice at the Education Fund of Family
Planning Advocates of New York State since 2004. Ross consults to Planned
Parenthood on clergy organizing, religion in the media and religious lobbying.
He is author of Abortion and Judaism: Rabbinic Opinion and Jewish Law and has been Rabbi of
Congregation Beth Emeth since 2009.
Stein began his tenure in
Rochester in 2014 after serving congregations in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
Stein’s biography statement says his rabbinate is “defined by a love of
learning and teaching and engagement in social justice.”
Kanter was called by the
congregation to serve as Minister of First Unitarian Church in 2003, later
becoming Senior Minister in January 2009. He blogs about faith for the Dallas Morning News. First Unitarian is one of the larger congregations
represented on this list, with 1027 members. Attendance data is not listed. In
2014 the congregation hosted the Faith Voices for Reproductive Justice Award,
presented by the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
Sattler is a retired
abortion doctor from Eureka, California who has performed abortions since the
mid-1970s. Raised Presbyterian, he later embraced Sufism, but has no
congregation listed.
Zonneveld is a regular in
religious left circles, typically the only Muslim to sign on to pro-LGBT or
pro-abortion statements. Featured at the annual Evangelical Left Wild Goose
Festival, Zonneveld embraces an interpretation of Islam that would be
unfamiliar to most Muslims. Possibly Chrislam which is neither Christian nor Islamic. Zonneveld served as a board member of the
short-lived Progressive Muslim Union of North America and has presided over
same-sex weddings for Muslim and Interfaith couples.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The Bible says in the last days even some of the followers of
Christ will fall away from God. Just as
in the time of Noah, before the Great Flood only a few survived, in the last
days only the few faithful will live eternally in heaven.
Are you one of those
few?
Thanks for listening – de Andréa
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