Social Justice Begins in the Womb – Daily Pro-life Updates from the BK Lounge

Miguel and I just got off an overnight bus ride to Sacramento to take part in The Call.  We will be joining pro-life leaders, Christian leader and hundreds of thousands of young people praying for our nation and for an end to child killing. I will be giving testimony of what God has done through the Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity and Stand True.  If you can’t be here please pray for the event for God to move.

Here is a promo video of the event.

Weekend Discussion Question

I have highlighted several different “Christian” shirts over the past couple of weeks that some people find offensive or inappropriate.  This week I will do the same but it will be one of my own shirts.

This summer some people found our “Silenced” shirt to be offensive, one person called it condemning towards women who have had an abortion.  I was told it calls women murderers and one Christian music festival even banned the shirt.

Here is the shirt in question:

Now while this shirt caused the most stink, some people have questioned wearing any kind of pro-life message on a shirt because it will offend people.

I want to know what you think?  You can see all of our shirts at http://store.prolifeworld.com

(LifeSiteNews.com) Reports – The mentally and morally “unfit” should be sterilized, Professor David Marsland, a sociologist and health expert, said this weekend. The professor made the remarks on the BBC radio program Iconoclasts, which advertises itself as the place to “think the unthinkable.”

Pro-life advocates and disability rights campaigners have responded by saying that Marsland’s proposed system is a straightforward throwback to the coercive eugenics practices of the past.

Marsland, Emeritus Scholar of Sociology and Health Sciences at Brunel University, London and Professorial Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Buckingham, told the BBC that “permanent sterilization” is the solution to child neglect and abuse.

“Children are abused or grossly neglected by a very small minority of inadequate parents.” Such parents, he said, are not distinguished by “disadvantage, poverty or exploitation,” he said, but by “a number or moral and mental inadequacies” caused by “serious mental defect,” “chronic mental illness” and drug addiction and alcoholism.

“Short of lifetime incarceration,” he said, the solution is “permanent sterilization.”

Does this kind of rhetoric sound familiar too you? I have posted in a recent post some of Margaret Sanger’s quotes – Planned Parenthood Has A Birthday Party Today to Celebrate 75 Years of Baby Killing.  This is Eugenics, the same philosophy held by Adolph Hitler and Margaret Sanger.

Every year Planned Parenthood gives out the “Margaret Sanger” award and I would not be surprised to see professor David Marsland on the recipient list sometime soon.  Pro-lifers have been trying to warn people that this is the true agenda of the pro-abortion movement for years, and people seem to think Planned Parenthood is just a friendly neighborhood health clinic.

Lila Rose has been exposing Planned Parenthood for years with her cutting edge investigation showing PP accepting donations to specifically abort black babies.  They also have shown PP lying to girls about fetal development as well as encouraging 13 year old girls not to tell them that the father of their baby was in his 30′s so they don’t have to report it.

The professor is different because he has the courage to openly show his eugenic cards; he does not seem to care if he looks like a monster.  What worries me is that his beliefs and what he is pushing will not seem so monstrous to people as our society continues down this eugenic path.  Some may say that we are not on that path yet:

It is legal to kill your own child in the womb through all 9 months.

In Oregon assisted suicide is legal.

Precious human persons like Terri Schiavo can be dehydrated to death while her killers are guarded by police who arrest a 10 year old boy for trying to bring her a bottle of water.

Pro-lifers are arrested for standing a praying on public sidewalks in defense of innocent human life.

The Margaret Sanger award is celebrated as an honor.

Babies born alive in abortion attempts are still killed, and our current President supports that killing.

The head of Ethics at Princeton University is a Eugenicist.

I know I can go on forever with this list.  Of course I will probably get a comment about how I should not put out articles like this because I might offend an eugenicist or former eugenicist.  By saying such stuff about eugenics I might hurt their feelings and that would be worse then speaking up against the evil of eugenics.

Maybe we should not talk about rape either because we might offend a former rapist who feels so bad about the “mistake” they made.  We know God forgives them so we need to not throw it in their face by saying rape is wrong.

Please understand these last two paragraphs were a little sarcastic, but that is the argument I get from people about why I should not speak out against abortion.  The fact is we must stand up now before things go any further.

If we continue to remain silent, millions more will be silenced forever.

For Christ I stand,

Bryan Kemper

Dear friends,

My missionary friend Candice had saved up half the money she needed for an upcoming mission trip she is doing but was ripped off of all her money.  She has been involved with Stand True for over two years and done our mission trip twice.  She is an amazing girl and I would love if anyone could help her with her upcoming mission trip.  Here is her recent letter.

The chronicles of Candice: an ongoing tale of faith, and determinationPlease take a few minutes and read this.

I know it’s been awhile since anyone has heard from me, but I guess that’s what comes with summers and debating on how reflective I want to be. What’s that supposed to mean? I’m not totally sure. But I think something along the lines of, how honest do I want to be with you, and how crazy will you think I am, after I tell you what I’m still planning on doing.

This summer, was no ordinary hop on tour summer. Though I did attend a few festivals, I also Greyhounded across the country. And with that, I was taken heavily advantage of. Without getting into too many details, a lot of money has been used (without our consent) from both my parents and my financial accounts. Through many loopholes we are able to get none of it back.

What does this have to do with anything? Bear with me.

Most of you know in March and June I spent time in Haiti. I volunteered with an organization called Youth With A Mission (YWAM). They have bases all over the world that not only host volunteers, but their main mission is to disciple others. With that, they have a discipleship training school (DTS) that equips students, young and old to go out and be who Jesus calls us to be. After coming back from Haiti the second time, and after considering what I should do for the Fall, I decided to apply to the main YWAM base in Kona, Hawaii for a special focused Justice DTS.

In the beginning of August, when we found out there is no way we are going to be able to get what was taken back, I got the acceptance e-mail into the school. At this point I had a few options. I could forget about the acceptance, and plan on working here in the area for a long time. I could move, and hope for a job that I at least like, for a long time. Or I could somehow, someway believe that I am supposed to go to this school.

A little lesson in faith.

Now if you don’t believe scripture, you can tune out for a minute. And if you believe scripture, yet are still thinking “how in the world does she plan on getting to this school?” re-read Hebrews 11. As followers of Christ it should be our faith (and works) that sets us a part from others. If we aren’t in a position desperate enough to rely (and have faith in) Jesus alone, how can we really say He is all we need.

So now what.

I can go on and on about how I feel I should attend this school for such a time as this. The first 3 months of the school will teach me how to know God more and make Him known.  The second 3 months will be spent in a foreign country, (Cambodia, Thailand, West Africa or Haiti). There we will do hands on ministry, from working in orphanages, digging wells, working with sex trafficked and abused women, and serving elsewhere as opportunities arise. For those that know my heart for social justice, this is an opportunity for me to step further into action with a biblical background into what I am so passionate about. Regardless of what your beliefs in God are, this is an opportunity to go and meet the needs of so many others that without our presence would not get it. All of your support will be vital to stepping into this door that has been opened.

The school starts September 30th and ends March 11th. Immediately I need to send in a $1,000 deposit and purchase a plane ticket. By the end of October, I need to have the remainder of the total lecture phase paid off, $3,210 and a $2,500 deposit to cover outreach flight fees. By the beginning of November, the remainder of the outreach phase (between $1,500 and $3,500) needs to be paid. For my peace of mind I’m setting a date of September 15th to at least have enough to cover my deposit, plane ticket and some towards my lecture phase.

Before the summer, I had just over half of it saved up and was planning on fundraising and believing for the rest. Currently, I have nothing (in man’s eye), and am believing for everything. Would you be willing to join with me to believe and sow into what God is doing, and will be doing in my life?

If you are thinking, “Candice, that’s just too much money, you are not going to get it,” when was the last time you challenged your faith to become real? If you don’t think you have anything to give, the story of the poor widow who, though only gave two coins, gave extravagantly, comes to mind (Mark 12:41-44).  With the given deadlines, it is not an absolute to need to have all of the money at once (though if I don’t have enough to cover what I do need by mid-September, it won’t matter). If it would be easier for you to pledge your gift for a later date, let me know and I will gladly accept your donation whenever it is a good time for you.

Though finances are the major need, without your prayers I might as well write this off. If God can do this miracle for my finances (and believing for my parents’ as well) what do you think He can do for yours? There are no disclaimers to this letter. As the cheesy saying goes, “if it’s God’s will, it’s God’s bill.” If He closes the door to going to Kona, I don’t doubt He will open an even better one for in the future.

I tried to keep this as short as possible, but written with as much determination and hope as possible as well. This is where I’m coming from. If you have any questions, which you might, don’t hesitate to contact me. I do have a paypal account, with e-mail thatthereishope@yahoo.com. For my address, please message or e-mail me.

Thank you for your time, your prayers and your support.

Candice Gordon 570.574.1640 thatthereishope@yahoo.comwww.facebook.com/candicengordon

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Bottom note. Please pass this along. It only takes someone to send it to someone to send it to someone else for them maybe to be moved to pay for this whole thing. Stay tuned for an event being created to riterate the September 15th urgency. Thanks again.

So I think I am really disturbed by this internet sensation.  I want you to watch these two videos in order and let me know what you think?  Should people be entertained by this subject matter, should people be making light of this tragic event? Watch them in order.

First watch this one.

Now watch this one.

I will admit that I laughed at first after the second video, but I am actually disturbed with myself for laughing.  I just don’t see how I can find this funny.  They are making t-shirts of this guys face, ringtones of the song; this is now a money making venture.