Update on Liberals' War on Christianity, Part Deux

The March for Life took place on Friday.  However, based on mainstream media coverage, most Americans probably would not know that.  The Washington Post and The New York Times devoted 330 words to the gathering of pro-life Americans in the Nation’s Capital.  The networks barely had any time to cover the event; after all, the evening newscasts on the “alphabet soup” networks spent 27 minutes on the now-debunked Buzzfeed story about President Trump ordering Michael Cohen to commit perjury.  While the media obsessed over another fake story about Russia, many prominent Republican politicians and leaders in the conservative movement spoke at the March for Life, which commemorates one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in United States History, Roe v. Wade.  Liberals maintain committed to protecting and defending Roe, which legalized abortion nationwide, above all else; except maybe protecting and defending Robert Mueller, who they merely see as a tool to remove a pro-life President from office.

While most opposition to abortion comes from religion, even some atheists have a hard time denying the fact that the “clump of cells” has DNA distinct from his or her mother.  Liberals’ support for abortion comes from a different religion; third-wave feminism, which dictates that women have absolute autonomy over their bodies that gives them the right to murder their children if they see them as an inconvenience.   

President Trump himself delivered a pre-recorded video message to the congregants after addressing them directly from the Rose Garden last year.  In his address, President Trump praised the March and described the pro-life movement as “founded on love and grounded in the nobility and dignity of every human life.” In addition to declaring that “every life has meaning and every life is worth protecting,” President Trump promised to always defend the first right in the Declaration of Independence: the right to life.” After listing off actions he has taken as President to advance the causes of the pro-life movement, the President announced that he “signed a letter to Congress to make clear that if they send any legislation to my desk that weakens the protection of human life, I will issue a veto.”  He probably directed that message specifically towards the House Democrats, who have made it clear that they hope to repeal the Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions.  In all likelihood, such a proposal would fail to make it through the Senate, where Republicans hold the majority.  Even if a bill to “weaken the protection of human life,” made it to President Trump’s desk, neither chamber would have enough votes to override his veto.  The President’s impassioned speech made it crystal clear that he has come a long way from his previous position on abortion, which he described as “very pro-choice.” 

On Saturday, the third annual Women’s March took place in Washington, D.C. and in various cities across the country.  The first Women’s March took place on January 21, 2017; one day after President Trump took the oath of office.  Featured speakers at the first Women’s March included Michael Moore, who tore up a newspaper with a cover focusing on President Trump’s inauguration; Gloria Steinem, who said that “we will all register as Muslims” in response to President Trump’s so-called “Muslim ban” that would restrict immigration from terror-prone countries; and Madonna, who said that she had “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.”  Initially, the Women’s March had incredible support from the Democratic Party.  Leading up to the third annual Women’s March, the Democratic National Committee withdrew its support from the event because one of the Women’s March co-founders, Tameka Mallory, refused to condemn Louis Farrakhan.  Farrakhan, the leader of the controversial Nation of Islam, has spent his entire career hurling insults at Jews; comparing them to termites and describing them as “Satanic.”  Former Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, a verelent pro-choicer, refused to attend this year’s Women’s March because of Mallory’s refusal to condemn Farrakhan.  Wasserman-Schultz finds herself one of among more than 70 percent of the Jews who voted Democratic in the last Presidential election.    

Some Women’s Marches across the country have disassociated from the national chapter while others have decided to pull the plug altogether but not for the reasons you might think.  In Northern California, the organizer of a Women’s March postponed the event, citing the fact that “up to this point, the participants have been overwhelmingly white, lacking representation from several perspectives in our community.” Ironically, the Women’s March do not seem at all concerned about lacking representation from the pro-life perspective, which polls indicate has more support among the American public than Cecile Richards and friends would like to admit.  At the very least, a majority of Americans do not support unrestricted abortion during all nine months of pregnancy.  A poll taken by Marist found that 63 percent of Americans support banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.  The same poll found that 52 percent of Americans agreed that abortion “did not improve a woman’s life in the long run.”  The Democrats might want to keep that in mind when crafting their platform in 2020.     

In other religion news, Second Lady Karen Pence has accepted a part-time job teaching art at a Christian school in Northern Virginia.  Pence had previously taught at the school when her husband, Vice President Mike Pence, served in Congress.  Progressives have excoriated her for her decision to teach at the school, which requires prospective employees to “initial next to a list of beliefs including certain ‘moral misconduct,’ includes homosexual or transgender identity as being disqualifying or any other violation of the unique roles of male and female.”

God forbid a Christian school would actually expect their students and employees to live by the tenets of the Bible, including the unpopular parts.  CNN’s Chris Cuomo argued that Pence’s decision to teach at the school proves that “the value of exclusion is embraced” by the Trump administration, comparing her new career to comments made by Congressman Steve King that seemed to indicate an endorsement of white nationalism.  Another member of the media went even further, equating the teachings of traditional Christianity, which the Vice President and his wife subscribe to with the Ku Klux Klan.  CNN’s John King suggested that the Pence family’s Christianity should disqualify them from Secret Service protection. While liberals love to point to the phrase “Love Thy Neighbor” as proof that God has no problem with the aforementioned “moral misconduct,” they seem to have forgotten another tenet of Christianity: “hate the sin, love the sinner.” Liberals have successfully blurred the lines between people and the activities they engage in to the point where many people base their whole identity on an activity; thus making it impossible to express disapproval of the activity without making it seem like a direct attack on a person’s “identity.” Contrary to what liberals may want people to believe, most Americans do not agree with the signature phrase of the Westboro Baptist Church, “God Hates F-gs.”  And no, Christians do not support the death penalty for homosexuals, unlike many Muslims who hold absolute power in corrupt to the core Middle Eastern countries.

Look at it like this.  Christian schools exist to educate children in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and everything else that public schools teach in addition to teaching their students to become good stewards of the Christian faith.  Teachers and staff members at Christian schools, as well as priests, serve as role models in that effort.  It would make no sense for a Christian school to hire a teacher who openly participates in activities that the church teaches against; just like it would make no sense for Hooters to hire 75-year old women as waitresses or for anybody to hire a morbidly obse personal trainer. For the record, Christian schools probably frown upon all behavior that violates the Ten Commandments, including swearing and drug use.  Yet the media didn’t talk about that since most public schools also have policies that lead to at least some punishment for those infractions.

Speaking of Christian schools, a group of students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky attended the March for Life, providing some hope that the future generations may embrace life more than their elders. However, some of the students quickly came under fire for allegedly mocking a Native American attending an event for indigenous people in the Capital City taking place concurrently with the March.  The school issued an apology and the media quickly labeled the students as “racist.”  In a similar series of events to how the debunking of the BuzzFeed story alleging President Trump’s subornation of perjury played out, additional video showed that Nathan Phillips, the Native American in question, came up to one of the students gathered at the Lincoln Memorial, and began banging a drum in his face.

This new information did not stop the media and the Twitter mob from engaging in character assassination against the teens. Dr. Sujana Chandrasekhar, President of the American Academy of Otolaryngology, posted pictures of all of the teens in question, describing them as “scary faces” and using the hashtag #CovingtonShame. In addition, Chandrasekhar hammered out some suggestions, including stopping “tax breaks for ‘religious’ establishments,” imposing “massive re-education” on “these children, their families, and these communities.” Her Twitter account has gone offline but before it did, she posted a picture of civil rights opponents from 1957 on top of the Covington students.  Democratic Congressman John Yarmuth, who represents Louisville in Congress, called for a moratorium on teenagers wearing #MAGA hats, alleging that they “seem to be poisoning young minds.”  Yarmuth claimed that the “appalling” conduct by the teens was a “direct result of the racist hatred displayed daily by the President of the United States who some, sadly, mistake for a role model.”  A writer from Vulture went so far as to hope that the students and their parents would die. To those looking for a silver lining, this story actually forced the media to cover the March for Life.  However, the networks spent 19 minutes of their coverage of the March for Life smearing the pro-life teens and just 58 seconds covering the event on Friday, before anyone knew anything about Covington Catholic High School.  

 

Appearing on “Fox & Friends” Monday, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said that the media and the left’s reaction to Karen Pence’s new job proves that the left “wants to push Christian education and Christian institutions into these religious ghettos in America, and bar people that are in those places to come into the public square.” While Perkins’ comments specifically referenced the outrage over Karen Pence teaching at a “homophobic” school, his statement just as easily applies to the left declaring war on Covington Catholic High School as well as their desire to ignore and/or marginalize the March for Life.  Marco Rubio once warned that the left would soon declare “mainstream Christian teaching” as “hate speech.”  It looks like that day has finally come.