Letters: Clergy leaders’ letter fails to consider children; Applauding pastors for abortion view
Children left out of ‘religiously pro-choice’ stance
To those “clergy, pastors and counselors” who authored the statement entitled “Abortion is a ‘matter between a woman and her God’” on the Opinion page of the May 22 CDT, I have a few questions. First, you do know that you have a great responsibility to the people to whom you minister and above all to the God whom you claim to serve, correct? As such, I note that in your explanation of why you are “religiously pro-choice” there are some people you never mention, some people who, unfortunately, cannot write a response. It’s the children in the womb that are affected by what you call the “necessary and merciful” procedure of abortion. What do you think they might say about what you’ve written if, indeed, they could speak? What would these ones who were not considered in the least by what you’ve written say about your words? Maybe I can help you. Jesus, whom the Bible calls “the head of the church” (and that means your church by the way) will very soon say to all of us, as He promised He would on the day He judges the world, “Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.” And He also said “I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” How do you think it might go for you at that moment? How will you answer the One whom you claim to serve?
Applauding pastors for abortion view
I am in wholehearted agreement with the pastors who signed the op-ed that was in Sunday’s paper. If the Supreme Court makes abortion illegal, that will not mean there will be no more abortions. Instead, it means that those who for whatever reason choose to terminate their pregnancies will find that trying to do so will become much more difficult and dangerous for mother and fetus.
Many years ago our nation tried to legislate morality by amending the Constitution to prohibit the manufacture, sale and transportation of liquor. But enough people chose to not comply with this decision that 16 years later this amendment was repealed. I wonder if the same thing will take place with abortions. If abortion is outlawed, will enough women continue to seek ways to end their pregnancy despite the difficulties and dangers in doing so that the country will make abortion legal again?
SCOTUS bears responsibility for mass shootings
Much of the blame for the deaths of the children this week, and for the continual mass shootings, should be attributed to the five Republican Supreme Court justices, John Roberts, Antonin Gregory Scalia, Anthony McLeod Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Anthony Alito, who voted in 2008 for the Heller decision. This decision basically made it very hard to have legislation to restrict the use, sale of, and carrying of weapons useful for mass murder such as AR-15 style assault weapons. This 5 to 4 decision has been an inspiration for Republican legislators to pass all sorts of laws to encourage people to buy and carry such weapons. The Supreme Court justices acted on their political beliefs. Surely they knew that the Second Amendment was passed so that state citizens could own arms to form state militia so that a national army would not be necessary to defend the U.S. If the law is read literally, people should certainly be allowed to own atomic weapons which are certainly arms.
Curb gun violence with your vote
More children are dead because spineless Republican politicians like Glenn Thompson oppose gun control.
When America has finally had enough of this slaughter, we can stop it.
Vote.
Trusted views on Russian history
Walter Uhler was a student in our graduate seminar on Russian history at Penn State. He was smart then; he is still smart. I am writing to endorse the views stated in his letter.