Religion and religious beliefs have an important place in many peoples lives. When religious beliefs start attempting to dictate law, the party pushing religious ideas will loose it's credibility and will never gain it's power back to dictate sound, fiscal conservative government. Allowing people to make their own judgements and keeping government out of our private lives is what's important.
I write these words chiefly to women and girls who have had an abortion. Still, it is my humble hope and honest prayer that anyone weighing this life-versus-death choice might also read them with an open mind and a hearing heart.
I share these truths in love. Some of you already know them. Others deny them.
Yet truths they remain.
It is through obedience to Christ and in the authority of His Spirit that I write you this letter. It may be difficult to read, but I pray you will read it.
First, let us dispense with the oft-asserted notion that,...
If not, what do you think our system of juris prudence is based on if not God's Law handed down to us through His Word?
"Allowing people to make their own judgements" is nothing more than moral relativism - and with that there is no structure to society and it collapses.
Straw man. Tell me what law doesn't legislate morals (just one), and then tell me where you derive your ethical system.
I'm all for allowing people to make their own decision, but if those decisions involve killing a helpless, innocent person to preserve one's lifestyle, that's another thing.
In much of the south, many denominations preached against the adoption of black equality with whites, and decried the passage of the Civil Rights act.
There were way too many white preachers who invoked God's name in opposition to allowing interracial marriage. So, what religion may or may not teach is far too often a poor guide for what any of us should believe or do.
What's your point? That we should 'allow' the continued wanton murder of the innocent unborn, since it's going to happen anyway?