 Killing God's children … killing our church Commentary by Parker T. Williamson The Layman Online Friday, July 2, 2004
The General Assembly failed us. More importantly, it failed God's little children. Subject only to a law enacted by Congress that Presbyterian Church (USA) lobbyists are vigorously attempting to overthrow, the slaughter will continue. Standing before a Women's Ministries luncheon that was organized just days before the vote, the Rev. Eleanor Giddings Ivory, chief lobbyist for the denomination's Washington Office, proudly announced that 1.5 million abortion rights demonstrators had descended on our nation's capital several weeks earlier. "We were hoping for a million," she said, confirming the role that she played in promoting the demonstration. In her comments on this General Assembly's tragic vote, Terry Schlossberg, executive director of Presbyterians Pro-Life, searched for an encouraging word. She noted that a significant majority of the Youth Advisory Delegates sided with those who wanted to protect the lives of viable babies. These young people may be our "best hope for the revival of Biblical truth in this aging denomination," she said. But the inexorable determination of this denomination's infrastructure to do evil rather than good casts a dark shadow over even this tiny prospect. After all, if we continue killing our children, where will our hope be? Whatever this assembly may do during its remaining hours, God's judgment has surely fallen upon it – 256 votes have rendered this an evil assembly. May God have mercy on us. |
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