Aliens in America: Day 13

Evil for Good 

‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet 1:17) 

‘Decadent cultures (such as ours) must always engage in repristinating their vices by recasting them as virtues…Sexual licentiousness loses its patina of shame and is celebrated as a liberation from moral oppression. Pre-natal infanticide becomes reproductive health and freedom.’  

Dr. Larry Chapp 

Kamala Harris has successfully crafted abortion rights into reproductive health and freedom. Violence? Murder? Nah…just a woman loudly asserting authority over mute people growing in wombs. 

Funny, Harris who answers minimally the most pressing questions raised by the American public has always shouted loudly for abortion. She believes in it. And she’s smart: she’s clarifying the zeitgeist and catching its wave.  

Abortion today is all about female empowerment, not annihilating little women. America seems to agree. We give adults every right they want and leave kids out to dry.  

Biden seemed in conflict with his insistence on abortion rights. Not Kamala. In January ’24, the VP initiated a ‘Reproductive Freedom Tour’ and walked arm-in-arm through a Planned Parenthood abortion mill in Minnesota with Gov. Walz, now her running mate.  

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren gushed of this chilling prophecy: Kamala’s ‘biggest accomplishment as VP was rallying American women around abortion rights. She was the first VP to visit an abortion clinic!’  Reach higher, women.   

And men. Walz seemed genuinely stunned to hear from Vance in their debate last month that the Minnesota governor had in truth initiated the state’s no-limit abortion law that permits abortion at any stage of pregnancy if both patient and doctor agree.  

Walz appeared flummoxed, as if to say: ‘Did I really do that?’ Yes, you did. It’s on the books. And the blood’s on your hands.  

Even Pete Buttigieg can’t help extolling the pro-abortion fervor of Harris and Walz. But for him, not surprisingly, the benefit appears to be male immoral empowerment. ‘Men are…more free in a country where we have a president who stands up for…access to abortion.’  

To quote Kenneth Craycraft in his excellent First Things piece: ‘Men are liberated from the consequence of irresponsible sexual behavior when women can be pressured or coerced into getting an abortion…That is precisely the effect of Harris and Walz’s dehumanizing abortion policy. In addition to advocating the extermination of unborn children, it reduces women to objects for the gratification of men.’  

Kamala’s confidence in little else but full abortion rights is a problem for me. And should be for any Christian of conscience. The road goes down and down. That she cites restraint on laws protecting prenatal persons as ‘immoral’ and then lulls selfish adults into myths of ‘reproductive health and freedom’ demonizes her platform.  

We must flinch at the fact that people as committed to justice as Walz and Harris inflict cruel and unusual punishment on the most vulnerable. Lament. Good masking as evil; evil masking as good.    

‘Jesus, we cry out for the most vulnerable and ask for true justice. Paint the dragon red. Spirit pray through us with groans. Protect the unborn.’   

‘Jesus, You are the King, and we are first citizens of Your Kingdom. Would you free us for You in this election season, not to hide but to shine? You’ve always asked nothing less from Your elect whom You have made ‘strangers in a strange land’ (Ex. 2:22). Here we are, a people who don’t know what to do but who look and listen to our King.  

“Father of all holiness, 

guide our hearts to You. 

Keep in the light of Your Truth 

all those You have freed from the darkness of unbelief. 

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son.”’ 

Amen