Micah 6:8

Is Rick Warren Supporting Abortion?

I just read a very interesting critique of Rick Warren's recent invitation of U.S. Senator Barack Obama to speak in his church. Kevin McCullough criticizes the invitation on the grounds that Obama's track record shows that he is strongly in favour of many anti-Christian values such as partial birth abortion, gay marriage, condom distribution, etc.

I think that Rick Warren has now moved himself from the crowds of apathetic Christians that are doing nothing about abortion (evil in itself) into the arena of outright support of evil. Having a senator speak in your church is a very strong endorsement for that leader. Unless Warren is going to give a very harsh disclaimer to his congregation telling them not vote for Obama because he is pro-genocide (highly unlikely) he is essentially giving his outright approval of this politician.

Let's look at this another way. If Obama was pro-pedophilia what would you think of having him speak in your church on some unrelated subject? I think that most people would be thoroughly out raged and for good reason. They would be afraid that the smooth talk on the unrelated subject would encourage the less critically minded people to vote for someone that thinks that it is alright to molest children. Abortion harms far more children per year then pedophilia so why is Rick Warren willing to back someone that is pro-genocide?

I think that one of the deeper problems here is that a lot of Christians think that it is alright to vote for someone that is pro-abortion or opposed to any other justice issue. If you were Jewish would you have voted for Hitler? If your mother was a slave would you vote for the people that were enslaving her? I Jesus was running as in independent in your riding would you still vote conservative in order to keep out the liberal candidate? If your answer is no to any of these questions then why would you being willing to vote for someone that thought that allowing people to kill hundreds of thousands of children per year was good?

Now I would like to add one little disclaimer before I get all sorts of negative feedback. I'm in no way trying to say that US people should vote republican. I also don't know anything about Kevin McCullough. I just agreed with this article and I don't know what other opinions he holds. If his other opinions are abhorrent that shouldn't colour your opinion of this article. Just read it for what it's worth.

hat tip: Armybarmy Blog

Posted by rose at November 21, 2006 11:12 AM