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Chaos blatantly appears in our modern society as Constitutional law is again undermined by oppositional political forces. Because our Supreme Court has been historically based on laws written during the dawning days of the United States, it is now subjected to powerfully voiced opinions from our modern and diverse population. We thus flounder, and now live in a rather turbulent legal era. Because of reactive split opinions in the court, possibly due somewhat to outside political forces, presiding judges have made rather questionable decisions on crucial legal challenges. These have produced several legal quagmires for our nation’s citizens. Arguments and great tensions occur regularly at the national, state and local levels. As you may remember, several years ago the Supreme Court struck down the Roe vs. Wade decision. That earlier decree made abortion available to women under specific circumstances. In a recent landmark reversal, however, the court’s legal decision about this important life matter was referred in “pass the buck style” to the states. This lack of direction left each State’s political entity to develop their own legalities. Hence many states recently took up contentious arguments on abortion and women’s rights and often passed legislation that was injurious to unborn children, making some radical decisions in some instances. This legal morass appears currently as raucous inputs are offered every day on media, online social gatherings and in the public square. Heated words are spoken by various citizens throughout our communities in barber shops, beauty shops, bedrooms and churches. As proof of this life undermining effect, I offer the example of recent news provided by the State of |
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Black Robe Regiment Allegany– Sept. 2026 Editorial |
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Massachusetts. The political powers there recently contributed to the decline of national legal authority on the issue. In filling the Supreme Court’s legal deficit, victorious recipients of a favorable ruling on abortion celebrated as the Massachusetts Governor signed a bill amid smiling admiration from witnesses. That horrid law now allows abortion of a child up to the date of birth. This follows on similar rulings that have been made in several other states. I ask, “How are we as Christians to respond?” As the Christian church speaks to the abortion and women’s rights issue, we find ourselves also mired in a wide range of responses. These answers generally use either of two methods in biblical interpretation. The first and correct method is to hold a high status for scripture’s witness and use an exegetical interpretation of the text. This method tends toward favoring a very tight control of abortion and thus affords a great voice for the preservation of embryonic life. The second interpretive method, used by more liberal factions within the Church, favors the decisional rights of pregnant mothers. These claim that life does not begin at conception. However, they hold to an opinion based upon erroneous biblical methods. For these last, who ignore right interpretations… an embryonic child can rightly be aborted at any time during pregnancy. Therefore many persons are left without proper guidance from either the legal powers or the Church. Subsequently, we risk a slide of U. S. law and its population into the bowels of hell. The descent continues and accelerates. |
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A VOICE FOR CHRISTIAN POLITICAL INFLUENCE TODAY! |
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Consequential Life and Death |
