to preach Christian morality<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cIf it feels good, do it\u201d appears nowhere in the Gospels and that\u2019s the basis of the abortion problem.<\/p>\nIf we encourage young people to have sex, some will get pregnant.\u00a0 If we make marriage optional and divorce a matter of whim, there\u2019s low probability a pregnant young woman can look forward to a stable future with the baby\u2019s father helping her raise their child.\u00a0 If we insist young women must go to college to have careers, the pregnant ones facing an unstable family life burdened with a child, will feel compelled to terminate the pregnancy by abortion.\u00a0 At that point, it does no good to say \u201cabortion is a matter of personal choice\u201d because the deck already is stacked to create the predictable outcome.<\/p>\n
The chain of moral failures started in the backseat of the boyfriend\u2019s car.\u00a0 That\u2019s where the preacher ought to focus.\u00a0 He\u2019s abdicating his moral responsibility to the unwed mother and to her unborn child.\u00a0 He\u2019s not an evangelist, he\u2019s a hedonist.\u00a0 Oh, and he\u2019s against Trump.\u00a0 How could I have predicted that?<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s pretty much a 1:1 correlation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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