This is Pastor Tim’s article which appeared in the Evening Leader on Tuesday, April 16, 2024
With all other candidates out of the running, it looks like the Republicans and the Democrats have selected their nominees. Like most of you, my plan is to go to the voting booth in November and vote against one of the two candidates. I have not been able to vote for a candidate since 1992 when I cast a ballot for Ross Perot. I believe I have voted against a candidate in every presidential election since. I know there are some third-party candidates but we all know that voting for anyone without either a D or an R beside their name is a vote thrown away.
With all of that being said, there was something that happened this week that absolutely broke my heart and that is on an issue that is near and dear to me: abortion. I am not saying that there is never a compelling reason to kill a baby, but I am saying that there are not enough compelling reasons to justify an entire industry dedicated to abortion and I know for certain that there are not enough compelling reasons to kill babies that the government needs to fund it.
Joe Biden has made his stance on abortion clear, he is very much in favor of children not being born. A strange position for our professing Catholic president, but somehow that is his stance. As I have said many times, I follow Joe Biden on X (formerly Twitter) and whoever is in charge of that account is very much in favor of abortion. But this is not new information and not what I found out that broke my heart.
Donald Trump is the one who broke my heart. With the overturning of the demonic decision known as Roe vs. Wade, there is no longer a federal mandate that abortion is legal. That means that states get to decide. Interesting that if you kill anyone else, that is a federal issue, but a baby in the womb, states can deal with that.
When asked about abortion this past week, Trump said it was a state issue, which is the correct answer, that is where this issue now resides. But it broke my heart that Trump could not take a stand on the issue and the reason he wasn’t able to take a stand is because the focus groups and poll takers said that the politically savvy move is to not take either side on this issue. Let me state this again because I cannot believe this is the case. It is not considered a winning issue to say that we strongly prefer babies to be born whenever possible. We are now a country where when a politician makes any move whatsoever to protect babies in the womb it is considered a losing issue.
What has happened to us? What has happened to us that we have decided that to say babies should be born as often as possible is not a popular position to take? Today, there is a critical mass of people who would turn on a politician just for saying that birth is preferable to death. You know darn well that both political parties have done the math, and they pay a lot of money to know what people like and what they don’t and being pro-life is now considered a liability.
Just this past November, here in Ohio, we had two ballot initiatives. 57% of people voted to continue some form of abortion in our state. Interestingly enough, there was a second issue on the ballot to legalize Marijuana and it also passed by 57%. Interesting coincidence.
Abortion and drugs. I believe this is nothing more than evidence of despair. Too many people have just given up, so they are just going to take what they can get: meaningless sex and getting high. Our society is so dedicated to this that it is considered a mistake for a politician to come out against either of these positions.
May God more mercy upon us than we have for babies in the womb.