America’s New Values? Pot, Abortion and Gay Marriage
Commentary on the News
Friday, November 09, 2012
J.L. Robb
I found it interesting that these three items seemed to be so important to so many people in the recent election. The concerns didn’t include the war rhetoric going on in the China-Japanese-Vietnam arena where they are all claiming the same islands, remote islands. China and the Japanese have already had confrontations.
There wasn’t concern about what’s going on in the Middle East with Israel suddenly surrounded with war zones. The “Arab Spring” is about to turn into a “nuclear winter,” but the concerns of our nation surround the freedoms of being able to abort whenever and for whatever reasons, make sure that anyone who wants to marry anyone else can do so (the first time in history that marriage wasn’t defined as a male/female relationship) since it concerns two consenting adults and pass the joint. Of the three “major concerns,” the one I worry about the least is who smokes pot on the weekend. It used to be legal when alcohol wasn’t. Abortion and gay marriage used to be illegal, but now they aren’t. If next Monday morning there was a surprise urine test for all senators and congressmen, there is no telling what might turn up in the urine of those who make laws against their own behavior.
I read that 39% of women who voted, voted on one issue: The choice to control “our own” bodies. Well, if there wasn’t another body involved, one with no choice, it would be just dandy. At what point does the fetus become human life? An embryo is human life, Biology 101.
“But what about rape?” I hear that logic over and over, and in the case of rape or incest or sure death of the mother; I am glad we have an option of “choice.” Under those circumstances, we take it up with our creator on the Day of Judgment. With that said, if someone could walk up and ask Jesus what to do with an unwanted fetus, I can’t imagine Jesus saying, “It’s your choice.” If you don’t want it, just get rid of “it” like “it” is an old shoe or something. “It” is human life.
When does life begin? The Bible had an answer for that in Psalms 139 (NIV) where “You” is capitalized because the upper-case letter indicates it’s God who David is talking about:
"For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be."
Less than 1% of all abortions are because of the reasons listed above. Roe vs. Wade was not intended to use abortion as a method of birth control; but that is what it has become, to the tune of 55 million babies in the U.S. who haven’t had a chance at life anywhere except in the womb.
As far as two consenting adults doing whatever they wish, what about adultery? If I marry my dog, will she/he be entitled to tax paid veterinary care? Obamavetcare? Why not? What if there are five consenting adults, can we all get married?
Where is the line drawn in the sand? During the Founding Father’s day, there were lines established and laws set down. The laws have changed greatly; and the lines are arbitrary. If it feels good, do it.
In the recent election, approximately 3,000,000 people who voted in 2008 did not vote in this election
Joel C. Rosenberg, a NY Times best-selling author, had this to say on his blog:
“It is stunning to think that 25 million self-described evangelical Christians would vote for a President who supports abortion on demand and was on the cover of Newsweek as America's ‘first gay president.’ Did these self-professed believers surrender their Biblical convictions in the voting booth, or did they never really have deep Biblical convictions on the critical issues to begin with?”
Those are good questions. How could a person calling himself “Christian,” vote for someone who believes in so much unbiblical stuff? Did they leave their Rule Book at the door? Apparently.
On Facebook there are many evangelical Christian conversations going on, many fanatical and extreme. One lady I conversed with who posts her Christian beliefs regularly commented that she wasn’t going to vote at all. I explained that everyone should vote, and a no vote was an Obama vote. Her response: “I’m not going to vote for Obama, and I am NOT voting for a devil worshipper like Mitt Romney.”
“What about Billy Grahams’ endorsement of Romney?” I asked.
“Billy Graham has lost his way. Mormons are going to hell.”
Maybe. I personally am not going to comment on who is or isn’t going to “hell,” but there are many Christians who are eager to do so. Jesus had this to say in the “Lord’s Prayer” about that:
“Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.”
Johnny Mathis has a great salute to the Lord’s Prayer.
In other words, God is going to forgive us to the same extent we forgive those who harm or offend us. How many times a day do we offend God? Do we really want Him measuring us by our own measure? I don’t think so.
So maybe some of the 3,000,000 non-voters were protesting against Mormonism at the expense of installing a government who endorses and promotes their non-biblical standards. I really don’t care what kind of “funny underwear” a Mormon wears in their tradition. Every religion has its own “traditions,” especially us Christians.
One FB “friend” wanted me to read an anti-Mormon website set up by an “ex-Mormon,” upon which I quickly sent a few web sites set up by ex-Christians, ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses, ex-Catholics and ex-Muslims. These sites are not “fair and balanced” in any way.
Should the anti-Mormon Christians have voted for a Mormon? Absodarnlutely. And it’s not the “lesser of two evils,” because we are all evil in someone’s eyes. To orthodox Judaism, Christianity is a cult.
Here is God’s opinion, as expressed in the Bible:
"Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God." (Romans 13:1 NIV)
"The decision is announced by messengers, the holy ones declare the verdict, so that the living may know that the Most High is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and gives them to anyone he wishes and sets over them the lowliest of people.” (Daniel 4:17 NIV)
God allows or establishes the rulers of nations. One FB post used the above quote to indicate that Obama was a gift from God Himself. Because God determines who is allowed to rule, that does not mean that the ruler is a “gift.” They are often a curse, bestowed on us because of our ridiculously poor choices. Would one think Hitler was a gift? Or Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini or Genghis Khan? They would be the “lowliest.”
Now to pot:
Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so. (Genesis 1: 29-30 NIV)
“And it was so.” I am about as conservative as one can be but have thought for many years that we should end the “drug war,’ bring home the troops and let people make their “choices” as to what they consume. Is it more “wrong” for someone to “choose” to eat a marijuana brownie or to choose to kill a human life? Which of those is legal?
I waited a long time in my life before I ever tried pot and unlike President Clinton, I did inhale. I was 28, almost 40 years ago, when I told a friend who smoked pot that I would really like to see what all the hoopla was about. He explained that since I didn’t smoke, I would probably choke, and I did. I wasn’t sure if I would go blind, become sterile or grow hair on the bottom of my feet as I had heard, but I went for it. My reaction was: Why is this illegal but alcohol is not?
Prohibition plainly showed that prohibiting desired consumption leads to crime, death, money laundering and general corruption. If someone sniffs glue, we cannot ban glue; if they sniff gasoline because they are a little nutty, we can’t ban gasoline. We can make it illegal though if we wish, fill the prisons up with petty criminals and let organized crime kill people.
In the early 1920’s, alcohol was illegal, but marijuana and cocaine were legal. Remember that Coca-Cola had a little bit of coca plant in it way back then. Suddenly, when alcohol became “legal,’ marijuana and cocaine became illegal. Isn’t it possible that organized crime manipulated that whole scene? I mean, if they couldn’t black-market alcohol, what were they going to black-market?
Coca and marijuana are seed bearing plants, grown naturally throughout the world. Because someone might be an “addict” does not mean everyone is. Because someone cannot control his alcohol addiction, should we ban alcohol for all who are in control? If someone is addict and gains 600 pounds, does that mean that no one can have chocolate? People have always had addictions to something.
Here is what worries me a lot more: The coming Islamic War against the infidels. That would be us! Christians, Jews, Hindus and atheists. If we aren’t Muslim, we are infidels. Do you know what the Quran says to do with infidels? Convert them, enslave them or kill them. That’s a lot more worrisome than the issues that are so important to our citizens in the modern age.
According to a news report, there were only two major countries in the world that didn’t endorse Obama: Israel and Pakistan.
Talk about an oxymoron.
When Iran gets their nuke, and they will; when the West goes broke, and we are; when enough children are aborted and any lifestyle is just ok with me even if it brings sexually transmitted disease and cancers to the population of our world; when we have established that the Bible and God is pure mythology… then the end will be near. We’re almost there folks.
As we approach Veteran’s Day this coming Sunday, November 11, I hope we will pray for veterans who risk and sacrifice their lives for our freedoms, including the FREEDOM TO VOTE! That is a freedom that our soldiers often don’t get because somehow at every election, they don’t receive their absentee ballots in time to vote. How convenient.
I am going to a concert this weekend by the North Charleston Pops, a salute to our veterans. Some dear friends of mine started this orchestra and it will be their first concert this weekend. I made a video to be shown there and would like to share it with you.
The theme is “We Will Never Forget.” If anyone is in the Charleston area on the 10th, I hope you will attend. Our Veteran’s deserve it.
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