Abortion and Obama: My Broken Heart and Angry Heart

by RANDALL A. TERRY
FOUNDER, OPERATION RESCUE & THE SOCIETY FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE

Dear Friend and Fellow Pro-lifer,

I confess: My heart is broken, and angry.

I ask you to read this, to pray, and to act.

I have literally wept over the compromise and outright treachery we are witnessing from certain evangelical and Catholic clergy, leaders, and so-called “thinkers” - Christians who claim to be pro-life but are supporting Obama for President.

I’m sure you are as shocked and dismayed as I am!

I can understand the reasoning of those who say they will not support John McCain; and I can feel the angst of those who say they are voting for McCain reluctantly; but I cannot understand those who claim to be pro-life, and followers of our Lord Jesus Christ supporting a man who has vowed to continue the slaughter of the innocent.

My heart is broken that pro-life Christians are prepared to sacrifice innocent children for the sake of some bizarre, unethical, and ungodly notion of "the common good."

But not only is my heart broken -- it is "filled with indignation." (See Jeremiah 15:17) I am indignant that people claiming to represent Jesus Christ are promoting Obama and thereby bearing false witness against Christ himself. Let me explain

When a Christian tries to create a “Christian” theological construct in which he justifies supporting a proponent of child-killing such as Obama for public office, he is implicitly declaring that Jesus is approving or even guiding this theological reasoning.

In other words -- they saddle our Savior with the murder of innocent children.

Let me warn you: in the coming pages I intend to demolish arguments and reasoning that falsely vindicate such a betrayal of innocent blood; I will prove -- with unimpeachable consistency and logic -- but the arguments which would seduce a Christian into voting for Obama are born in hell; “for even Satan masquerades as an Angel is light…” and false prophets and false messiahs arise to try and deceive God’ people. (See II Cor. 11:14.15; Matt. 24: 24)

You are a true pro-lifer, which is why you are receiving this letter. I’m sure that your heart must also be grieved at this treachery and deception. So please know -- I angry with you and our compatriots in this battle. I’m grieved with the betrayers of babies; those who claim to be our allies.

So let the treacherous beware: I will not speak with moderation; I will not equivocate; I will not spare the small or the great who in the name of Christ are helping the child-slayers of our time.

My Premise: Fighting Words for the Babies and for Truth

If someone votes for Obama, he will aid in the murder of innocent children.

If someone votes for Obama, he will have blood on his hands.

If someone votes for Obama, knowing Obama’s history and his intent – his 100% pro-death voting record and his promise to expand this holocaust in the future – that voter has betrayed innocent blood, and that voter is helping to attack Christ himself.

Helping Obama: Jesus said: "You did it to me..."

In Matthew 25:40, Jesus said: “Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.”

The simple question is this: Who are “the least of Jesus’ brethren?” Are pre-born babies included as the “least” of Christ’s brothers? I will prove the answer is YES.

Jesus said: "Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven." (Matt 19:14) Mark repeats these words: "Let the children come to me, do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God.” (Mark 10:14)

Please note: the Greek word for babe is “brephos,” which is the word used to identify John the Baptist, as he leapt for joy in his mothers womb in the presence of Mary and Jesus – just a few days after Christ’s conception! (See Luke 1:41, 44) This is the same word used to define Christ when the Angels told the shepherds that “…you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger." (Luke 2:12)

God uses the same word for a newborn child as an unborn child – showing that in His mind – they are both living children, precious and unique in His sight.

The Church has always held that an unborn child is a child, made in the image of God, and that to slay that unborn child is murder.

So, since “the kingdom of heaven belongs to little children;” and since the same Greek word is used to define a newborn baby and an unborn baby; and since the same word is used to describe John the Baptist as a “fetus” and Jesus as a newborn, we can surely say that Jesus includes unborn babies as the least of His brethren.

Hence, in some sacred way, what we do to the unborn, we do to Christ himself.
To attack or betray a child –whether in the womb or out – is to attack or betray Christ Himself.

Think of Herod. He sought to destroy the Christ Child, and slew the Innocent in the process.

To Christians who are planning to betray the children with their vote – we must ask them: “Would you vote for Herod after he slaughtered the Holy Innocents in Bethlehem? Would you vote for Herod while his hands dripped with their innocent blood? If not, how can you justify voting for Obama - a man cut from the same cloth as Herod?” Go ahead, ask them and jar them!

Killing the children of our day is in some way like attacking Christ himself. In fact, Catholics and Protestants alike will appreciate the fact that the great pro-life champion, John Paul II, wrote that “…whoever attacks human life, in some way attacks God himself.” (Evangelium Vitae, 9)

As I mentioned earlier, one reason I'm so indignant at this treachery is because those Christians who try to justify voting for Obama -- whether Catholic or Protestant -- couch their treachery in terms of Christian theology or Christian lingo. In other words – they imply or outright say that Jesus is guiding them to vote for someone who defends child-killing! Here are two examples…

Franky Schaeffer: Pro-life Champion Gone to “the Dark Side”

Remember the late Dr. Francis Schaeffer? He was a brilliant thinker and author. He wrote A Christian Manifesto (and many other books), and was one of the first evangelicals to raise a banner against child-killing. In many circles, he was and is a legend.

His son, Franky Schaeffer, was also a well known evangelical pro-life advocate in the early and mid 1980s. Franky was on Dr. Dobson’s Focus on the Family; he directed the magnificent film series, Whatever happened to the Human Race?, and he wrote the best seller, A Time for Anger, which sold hundreds of thousands of copies. (Both father and son had a profound impact on me in the early years of my pro-life calling and leadership.)

Now Franky Schaeffer is blasting and mocking Dr. James Dobson, and he has endorsed Obama for President! (See more at www.huffingtonpost.com). He wrote:

As a result of his [Dr. Dobson’s] power grabs and bullying of other evangelicals, not to mention his telling people how to vote and pointing them to the failed W [Bush], Dobson & Co. have zero credibility with a growing number of otherwise conservative evangelicals who happen-- this year--to be looking favorably at Senator Obama's holistic Christian-based world view. Unlike Dobson they like Obama's theology just fine.

I ask you: what does “Obama’s holistic Christian-based world view” and “Obama's theology” even mean? What Christian theology vindicates the murder of the innocent? None! It is not Christian theology; it is satanic theology, the theology of hell. Who but the Angel of Death would create a theology to justify attacking God’s most precious creation, human life, thereby assaulting God Himself?

“Roman Catholics for Obama:” Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing

I invite you to see the deception for yourself at their website. But for now, let me quote to you part of their pathetic attempt to justify their support for Obama. They say:

On this website, we have collected and linked to documents from the Church and from Church authorities that reflect on the importance of civic participation motivated by all of the principles of Catholic Social Teaching: Life and Dignity of the Human Person; Call to Family, Community, and Participation; Rights and Responsibilities; Option for the Poor and Vulnerable; The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers; Solidarity; and Care for God's Creation… After faithful thought and prayer, we have arrived at the conclusion that Senator Obama is the candidate whose views are most compatible with the Catholic outlook, and we will vote for him because of that…”(See their theological gibberish at www.romancatholicsforobama.com)

These poor people have lost their way, as well as their minds, and maybe their souls. They are misrepresenting and betraying Church teaching. Evangelium Vitae and Humane Vitae and Christ the King are the teaching of the Church - not this garbage.

It is the height of hypocrisy to talk about the “Life and Dignity of the Human Person” while supporting a man who helps destroys human life and robs a human bay of his God-given dignity; they talk of a “Call to Family,” yet support a man who helps would murder children that should be loved and protected in a family; they talk about “Community and Participation” - what “community” can claim loyalty to Christ while it “participates” in the murder of children?

They talk about “Rights and Responsibilities;” what about the Right to Life of the child and the Responsibility of Catholics to protect children? They talk about the "Poor and Vulnerable;” since when is it the teaching of the Catholic Church to kill the poor and the vulnerable? And do they show their love for the “Dignity and Rights of Workers” by killing future workers and denying their right to life? Do they “Care for God's Creation” by killing His masterpiece -- innocent human beings?! They have “Solidarity” with all right – solidarity with hell.

The Church teaches that there is an ethical hierarchy; all issues are not equal We can disagree on the war, or on how to care for the poor, or on health care, or on other issues of "the common good," but we cannot disagree on child killing. Abortion is murder; it is our first duty, and our highest priority, to end this holocaust. To claim that we can betray innocent children to their deaths for "the common good" is as evil as it is false. Read the Masterpiece, The Gospel of Life by John Paul II, and you’ll see, Roman Catholics for Obama LIE THROUGH THEIR TEETH!

I wish I could tell you that these two examples are an oddity. They are not. Literally millions of Evangelicals and Catholics are poised to betray innocent children – and Christ Himself – by voting for Obama for President.

Concerning black American evangelicals and preachers who are lining up behind Obama, this is not about faithfulness to Biblical Authority; nor is it about loving “the least of these.” It appears that much of their support is about the color of Obama’s skin. If so, it is racist, not Christian.

Blow the Trumpet! We Must Declare the Truth LOUDLY

Remember: Truth has within it the seeds of its own victory. Our duty is to proclaim the Truth – without fear, without compromise, without wavering; to be “a solid wall of brass.” (Jer: 15:20)

We must “Blow the trumpet in Zion, sound the alarm on [God’s] Holy Mountain.” (See Joel 2:1) Trumpets and alarms are noisy. We need to make a lot of holy noise. We must wake our brethren from their stupor, and warn them of the danger. The facts are simple: you have family members and fellow church members who are being deceived, and are planning to vote for Obama – the most pro-death candidate in history. Will you sound an alarm for them?
We must rattle them, shake them, and wake them with all the love and passion we can – for their own sakes – and for the sake of the innocent children.

It is our duty to convince as many of our brethren at the Churches we attend that they cannot ethically vote for Obama. To do so is treachery against the Laws of God, and the lives of babies.

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For those with the passion to defend innocent life and Christian orthodoxy, we have created “weapons of rhetorical war” for you to use to wake up your brethren.

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Scheduled Events: Will you blow the Trumpet in Your City?

Denver – August 25-28. I know it is late, but if your heart is stirred to join us in Denver to protest against Obama during the Democratic Convention, please contact us right away. Call me at 904-687-9804, or go online for details at www.humbleplea.com.

September 29 – St. Michael the Archangel Protests and “Sit-Ins.” On this day – the day the Church honors Michael, the great Archangel of Battle, we will co-ordinate peaceful sit-ins and pickets outside Obama headquarters around the nation. We will hold signs: “No Christian may in good conscience vote for Obama for President” and similar signs.

October 3 – Respect Life Sunday. On this Sunday (and Saturday night) we (you and us!) will put brochures on thousands of windshields of cars while people attend church around the nation.

October 10, 17, and 24 – Literature drops nationwide. Again, we will distribute flyers outside during church urging Obama voters to come to their senses and repent of their intention.

November 2 – aborted baby signs at Churches. On the last Sunday before the election, at select churches, we will hold up pictures of aborted children along the road near the church exit (WHICH IS COMPLETELY LEGAL) with the words: A Vote for Obama is a Vote for Dead Children. This is our last chance to jolt the faithful back to faithfulness before the election.

We will teach you what to do – step by step. This is all a prophetic witness for God, His Laws, and His Children – the innocent babies Obama has sworn to help slaughter. This is not for the faint hearted, but – with God’s help – you can do it.

I beg you in Jesus Holy Name for your prayers.

Paul said: “Who is equal to this?” (II Cor.2:16) In our own strength, none of us can keep this pace, nor take on this battle. But we “can do all things through Christ who strengthens” us (see Phil. 4:13). Even then – it will be hard. (It is not a sacrifice until it hurts.) We are on a 7 week trip – recruiting, mobilizing, training people to lift up their voices. We beg your prayers for the grace of God and the help of angles to give us strength, courage, protection and peace.

Immigration and National Security

by Michelle Malkin
Syndicated Columnist
Reprinted by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College.

The following is excerpted from a speech delivered at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar on May 20, 2008, in New York City.

Michelle Malkin, a columnist for Creators Syndicate since 1999, has also worked at the Los Angeles Daily News and the Seattle Times. A graduate of Oberlin College, she blogs on michellemalkin.com and is founder and co-editor of hotair.com. In 2002, she published Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores.

WE ALL KNOW what happened on September 11, 2001. But how many of us recall what happened on February 26, 1993? That was the date of the first World Trade Center attack, the precursor to 9/11 carried out by a cell of Middle Eastern jihadists. Key members of that cell were illegal aliens.

Mahmud Abouhalima was an Egyptian illegal alien working as a cab driver in New York. He falsely claimed to be an agricultural worker under the 1986 illegal alien amnesty law and snagged a green card that allowed him to travel back and forth to Pakistan for al Qaeda training. Abouhalima said he was a strawberry picker, even though he had never been anywhere near a strawberry field. Overwhelmed INS workers—who are driven to reduce backlogs by simply shredding or rubber stamping applications—failed to vet his claims.

Mohammed Salameh, the operative who rented the truck used in the 1993 bombing, was denied amnesty after filing a bogus claim. But because the INS didn’t have the resources or the will to deport him, he was able to work and plot freely right under our noses.

The mastermind of the 1993 plot and of another foiled plot to bomb New York landmarks, Sheik Abdul Rahman, won asylum here based on a fraudulent claim and was allowed to remain thanks to a deadly combination of immigration and intelligence lapses. Seven people died and thousands were injured in the first World Trade Center bombing, which amounted to a trial run for the attack that would lead to the deaths of another 3,000 innocent men, women, and children eight years later.

All of the 9/11 hijackers entered the country with short-term visas issued by State Department consular offices abroad. Fifteen of the 19 came from Saudi Arabia, where a special program allowed them to get fast-track visas. The program, called Visa Express, was hatched by American bureaucrats who were concerned about wealthy Saudis waiting in long lines. So no one bothered to double-check the hijackers’ applications, which were so sloppy that they made no sense. To give you a couple of examples, one of them put “Washington hotel” as his address and another described his occupation as “Teeter.” Thus, despite obviously lying on their applications, they gained entry to plot mass murder on American soil.

Once in the U.S., several of the hijackers needed fake government documents. They hooked up with illegal alien day laborers who hung out at a Virginia convenience store near the Pentagon. After waiting around with a couple of $20 bills, an illegal alien from El Salvador was willing and able to give them the documents that they needed to board the planes they flew on 9/11. The local cops whom I interviewed admit knowing that those people hanging around the convenience store were here illegally, but they did nothing about it.

The lesson is this: Lax immigration enforcement enables enemy foreign agents to exploit a system that was intended to welcome those who want to make better lives for themselves on our terms. Before 9/11, our nation convinced itself that it could afford massive, systematic abuse and undermining of immigration laws. After 1993, in an age of Islamic terrorism and nuclear threat, we should have been permanently disabused of that notion. But we continued in our folly. And we continue in it still today.

Let’s look at some facts:

• There are now upwards of 20 million illegal aliens in the U.S.
• Roughly 1 million legal immigrants are admitted to the U.S. every year.
• Some 400,000 illegal aliens have been ordered to be deported, but are on the loose in the U.S. after being released by federal immigration courts.
• There are only 20,000 detention beds in the entire country to hold illegal aliens.
• There are only 2,000 federal agents employed by the Department of Homeland Security to track down the estimated 12-20 million illegal aliens who are living, working, going to school, getting driver’s licenses and, yes, committing crimes and plotting terrorist attacks in America as we speak.
• Border fences to our north and south are a joke, even while we’re sending money to Egypt and Mexico to help them build fences on their southern borders.
  

Despite the fact that Congress created the behemoth Department of Homeland Security, there is still no systematic tracking of criminal alien felons across the country; sanctuary for illegal aliens—that is, deliberate non-enforcement of the laws— remains the policy in almost every major metropolis; and “catch and release” remains standard operating procedure for untold thousands of illegal aliens who pass through the fingers of federal immigration authorities every day.

My book, Invasion, argued in great detail that our current immigration and entrance system is in shambles, partly by neglect and partly by design. From America’s negligent consular offices overseas, to our porous air, land, and sea points of entry, to our ineffective detention and deportation policies, our federal immigration authorities have failed at every level to protect our borders and preserve our sovereignty.

The argument of my book was simple: Immigration in a post-9/11 world must be treated as a national security issue. Enforcement of immigration laws must be clear and consistent. Lawbreakers must be punished, not rewarded. Illegal aliens must be deported, not naturalized. And the national interest, not special interests—whether Big Business or liberal multiculturalism—must drive immigration policy.

I agree with the late Texas congresswoman Barbara Jordan—a liberal black Democrat and respected immigration authority—who said that credible immigration policy rests on three simple principles: “People who should get in, get in; people who should not enter are kept out; and people who are deportable should be required to leave.”

Contrary to the misguided claims of today’s open-borders lobby, the demand for a more discriminating immigration policy—one that welcomes American dreamers and bars American destroyers—does not stem from fear or hatred of foreigners, but from the idea of self-preservation and from love of country.

Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution states clearly: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.” We are not a boarding house for the world. We are a sovereign nation. It’s time we started acting like one.

Arise! Shine, for thy Light is Come

By Chris Hoops, Founding Theology Editor (January 29, 1950 – July 17, 2008) for more on Mr Hoops please go here.

"And God said, "Let there be light and there was Light," and "Mary conceived and bare a son and called his name Jesus." Jesus came into a darkened world, filled with sin, corruption, and misery. "And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it."

The aged Simeon, living in Jerusalem in the days of Roman occupation waited for the "consolation of Israel." When he saw Joseph and Mary bring the infant Christ child to the Temple, "took Him up in his arms and blessed God and said: … My eyes have seen Your salvation which You have prepared before the face of all peoples, a light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and glory to Your people Israel." Jesus is that light who "enlightens" the world. And the world and all its peoples sit in great darkness. Have we forgotten this?

If you have a "newspaper theology" and get your views of the future only from headlines and the "Late and Great" bunch you will cower, and despondency is the result. Every day of our lives we experience an eschatology of the moment. It does not take but an instant to become discouraged, despondent, and fearful of the future. If all we do is read the news written and prepared for us by reporters who live, work and play in darkness and in whose own minds there is no light we are sure to become like Christian, who strayed from the path, and for a time forgot God’s promises and lived in the Castle of Despair.

When we go to the grocery store and stand in the check out lines we are inundated with the tabloids. These so called newspapers have adopted an eschatological dispensational jargon. If you believe the headlines, "the world is coming to an end - soon!" or "Jesus is wondering the streets of Seattle as a homeless man before His Second Coming." "Armageddon is upon us." "Babylon the great is being rebuilt." The war with Iraq will "usher in the rise of the beast and the rebuilding of the harlot city of Babylon."

Our modern culture of death has taken upon itself the language of a defeatist theology and an eschatology of the vanquished. All that is left now is for Jesus to return and "gather His little flock" that are trembling at the thought of "the great tribulation" and "rise of the Anti-Christ." One recent tabloid’s headlines read, "The Anti-Christ is alive today!" Tim LaHay could have written that caption. Are these people reading the same Bible I am?

"Arise!," heralded the prophet Isaiah, "shine; for your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you." For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth and deep darkness the people; but the Lord will rise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles shall come to your light and the kings to the brightness of your rising. Lift up your eyes all around you and see…"

Jesus said, "I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness." R.J. Rushdoony writes, "Jesus Christ, as the Word incarnate, reveals what men are to be in Him. He is the light of the world; apart from him we walk in darkness. Evil men, however, hate the light and love darkness. Light and life are as closely connected as death and darkness. John … says that the world of darkness, fallen men, could neither understand nor seize and take possession of Him. By His resurrection, Christ destroyed the power of sin and death: they could not take possession of Him. He who created all things came to restore and reconstruct all things; the power of darkness sought to prevent this and failed. The world of darkness hates the light and seeks vainly to put it out, but the light is now shining because it cannot be put out."

This culture of darkness and death in which we find ourselves, hates Christendom and her Savior. They love death. Fallen men, who refuse to come to the light and be saved, will do all in their power to put and end to the gospel and all that live by it. They hate God. (Psalm 14)

The darkness neither comprehends nor understands the light according to the Apostle John. Yet we spend our time and energy hoping, praying and trying to get dead men, fallen men, men engulfed in the world and culture of death and darkness to understand the virtues, principles and culture which spring from the light of the gospel. They can’t. And we shouldn’t try to make them.

Our task, indeed our calling (Matt. 28:19-20), is not to seek a place at the table where dead men discuss the affairs of death and darkness. Ours is to preach the power of God, the gospel of Jesus Christ, which is the bold proclamation of the death, burial and resurrection of the Savior. Ours is to shine the light, on the culture of death and dying and offer to those sitting in darkness light and life and bring reformation to our land. Those who love darkness will not come to the light, "because their deeds are evil." But "he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life" proclaimed the incarnate Son of God to His disciples. (John 8:12) When we speak of culture, civilization or social order we must believe, as the saints of old did, that God’s Holy Word addresses every area of "life and living." It is not a place at their table of death we must seek, but bring them who wish to live to our table, Christ’s Table, to the Supper of the Lamb. He has prepared a feast, and often we settle for moldy crumbs. He has bid us "Come, for all is now ready." But some go buy cows. God will have His people. "Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising." Do not waist time wrestling in the darkness, work in the light as He is in the light.

So what is the light? The sun shines on the just and unjust equally. So we are not talking of the sunlight, but the light of God’s holy word. St Augustine said, "Crede, ut intelligas" "Believe in order that you may understand." Understanding to the Bishop of Hippo meant believing God and taking Him at His word. God’s word alone is the light of life. When one believes, his darkened mind is regenerated and enlightened, and to the degree one reads and studies the Scriptures, "rightly dividing the word of truth," the more he understands the world and creation around him. But more importantly, we must settle in our own hearts and minds that God’s word, and not our own thoughts and opinions or those of others, is the truth. Truth, right and wrong, good and evil, justice and mercy are not what we say they are but what God’s word declares them to be. They are divine constructs and therefore understanding comes from believing His Word and adhering to it.

When we Believe Christ alone is the ruler of the nations then we have understanding. Knowing that His word to mankind is absolute and His reign as King of Kings and Lord of lords is our law and standard is understanding. Obedience to God’s Commandments, judgments and statutes is understanding. Being doers of the Word is understanding. Feeding the poor and helping the homeless is understanding. Replacing our humanistic grasp on law and justice with that taught in God’s "law of liberty" is understanding. Ridding the Lord’s free peoples from unjust taxation, unsound economic policies and unlawful regulations, which choke civil and religious liberty and freedom is understanding. Adhering to the biblical "rule of law" is understanding. Realizing tyranny is an action taken by men to replace freedom under God with the humanistic government is understanding

Understanding is not what we think, nor is our personal opinion. To truly understand is to believe God and taking Him at His word, for only "knowledge of the Holy is understanding."

"Arise, Shine! For your light has come!" For "the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining." Now that is understanding!

Luke 2:25-32 NKJV

Isaiah 60:1-4 NKJV

John 12:46

Rousas John Rushdoony, The Gospel of John, Ross House Books, 2000, page 6

2 Peter 1:3

Luke 14:15-24

1 John 1:8b, NKJV