by Kevin Finn, American Thinker:
Government is an unfortunate necessity. We need it to do that which we cannot do for ourselves. Its functions are listed in the preamble to the Constitution — to preserve the union of states, to protect the innocent and prosecute the guilty, to enable its citizens to live in peace and to protect them from foreign or domestic threats, to provide them with the opportunity to prosper and to protect the tenets of liberty for its citizens and their descendants.
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One would think that the two main political parties in the U.S. would both aim towards the same goals even though they might differ in their preferred means of achieving them. That no longer appears to be the case. As they are currently constituted, neither party seems overly concerned with protecting our rights and limiting the size of government. One party is actively working to make the country and the citizens less safe, less prosperous, and more divided while the other party talks a good game but rarely follows through.
Christians have a duty to “render unto Caesar what is due to Caesar.” that is, to obey and support lawful government. We also have a duty to form and inform our conscience, not to obey unlawful orders, and to “teach and admonish one another” when necessary. Sadly, there are liberals in the public arena who are doing the opposite, causing scandal by leading others astray. This may have eternal consequences.
One such scandal that never seems to go away is that of abortion. The Church has opposed this from her beginnings. In the book of Exodus we see, “When men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that there is a miscarriage, and yet no harm follows, the one who hurt her shall be fined, according as the woman’s husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life…” The meaning is clear. Justice is meted out to anyone who causes harm to a pregnant woman and the unborn.
In 1995 Pope John Paul II declared that the Church’s teaching on abortion “is unchanged and unchangeable. Therefore, by the authority which Christ conferred upon Peter and his successors… I declare that direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, always constitutes a grave moral disorder, since it is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being.” Leftists sometimes obfuscate the issue by claiming the unborn are not ‘persons’ while the reality is that they are human beings at particular stage of development. The question is, “Do all human being have human rights”?
Just as support for abortion is incompatible with Christianity, so is transgenderism. While this is a recent phenomenon the Church’s teaching on the subject is, like abortion, based on biblical truths. Exodus teaches, “So God created man in his own image… male and female he created them.” We are made in God’s image as to our soul but replicating our physical bodies require procreation, which is why God created two sexes. In 1905 Dr. Nettie Stevens, a cytogeneticist and researcher at Bryn Mawr College discovered that sex is determined by hereditary traits passed through chromosomes.
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