Guest Opinion by Lowell E. McCoy, Sherwood, AR: As I write this, it is all of 23 days until Obama’s inauguration and the abortionists have already made their appeal to him to fulfill his promised support for their cause. Perhaps you saw on the Internet that "A major abortion provider wants taxpayers to fork over more money, even while the economy is down." Over 50 other groups have submitted a 55-page wish list to the incoming Obama administration. Jim Sedlak of American Life League’s (ALL) Stop Planned Parenthood, or Stop International, has tallied the cost. They want unfettered abortion – the government paying for all of its programs. All of this totals $4.6 billion in 2009."According to an ALL press release, the document requests $700 million to fund Title X, $900 million for international ‘family planning’ programs, and additional millions for STD and sex education programs. Putting it under a microscope, Sedlak says the request is shocking when there are people on the streets looking for an income." Sedlak continues, "We have to remember that last year, Planned Parenthood got $356 million in government money and $114 million in profits." He suggests the wish list represents a request to support an agenda, rather than a genuine need." Here is my key question. If the abortionists expect the government (taxpayers) to pay for all their abortions, why shouldn’t all the rest of us (who outnumber the abortionists) have equal right to expect the government (including the taxpaying abortionists) to pay for all the births in America?
I am sure you are all aware that the homosexuals are really angry over the passing of Proposition 8 out in California. They insisted that the vote overruled the law and that the people had no right to do that. The people had already voted by a significant margin to not allow gay marriages. In spite of the vote, the courts then overruled the vote and declared gay marriages legal. What right did they have to do that? Then the people, in a second vote, by another significant margin, overruled the courts. The homosexuals were furious! A protest arose all over the country to the vote. Later, the Republican governor decided to favor them. What right did they have to do that? Who overruled whom?
If I remember correctly, it is figured that homosexuals compose only about 2% of our population. How can that small number dictate to or control the 98%? Who are the ones actually creating the problem? Who do they think they are? Here in Arkansas, the ACLU is seeking to lead in overruling the vote against allowing homosexuals and single people living together unmarried to adopt children or become foster parents. They are saying the proposition was not written clearly enough and was confusing. That certainly is hogwash! There was plenty of discussion and explanation given from both sides, upholding their respective points. The vote was clear and decisive! The ACLU, as its practice is, has simply taken the side of those who want to set it aside.
On the other hand, a vast number of voters lost on the proposition of the lottery. Why should we not have just as much right to make a big public protest and appeal to the court to overrule that decision? It is despicably obvious that those who shout the most about the need for tolerance are the most intolerant? This is displayed repeatedly in our society.
Millions of Americans lost in the presidential election for voting in accordance with our convictions of what we believe are sound Biblical and Constitutional truths, pertaining to governments. So why should we not have the right to attempt to go to court and set the election aside? We are thoroughly persuaded that many of the promised changes are wrong morally, legally, socially and economically, but does that justify public disruptions, rather than teaching and persuading?
In God’s call of Jeremiah to be a prophet, Jeremiah objected that he knew not how to speak; he was only a child. But the Lord said unto him, "Do not say, I am only a child. You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you, declares the Lord. Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, Now, I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant" (Jer. 1:7b-10). God makes it very clear that he is in charge of nations and it is up to him when nations rise and fall. It depends upon what they do with respect to his will. This is no less true of our nation than any other nation. See essentially the same point in Jer. 18:1-12. The people of the world have no interest nor desire to obey or promote the prophets’ words. It is up to Christians to do that. He is counting on us and we must not fail. It will require our utmost diligence. We will always have stiff opposition! The devil never takes a vacation!
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Lowell E. McCoy at 80 is retired from preaching after 50+ years. However, he writes and works in the Sherwood, AR. Yes, this Mr. McCoy is the father of Gene McCoy whose article also appears today and whose works have appeared in prior editions of the ARRA News Service.
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