The evangelicals want to make America a Christian nation. And they really mean it.
For example, consider how Dani — a supporter of Colorado’s Amendment 48 describes herself:
I am a wife and a homeschooling mother of three beautiful girls and an adorable baby boy. I am also a right-wing fanatic on assignment from God to be a good helper to my husband and to train up my children with the Fear and Admonition of the Lord! My beliefs are radical, oftentimes offensive, and fundamental to the core. You’re either going to love me or hate me, but I am here to share the TRUTH to an entire generation trained not to notice and blinded by lies. ===> “Have I now become your enemy by telling the TRUTH?” – Galatians 4:16
In response to her blog post supporting Amendment 48, I posted the following comment:
Are you willing to punish a woman with the death penalty or life in prison for terminating a pregnancy, whatever her circumstances? To lock up a woman so that she will bring a non-viable fetus to term?Do you want to ban the birth control pill and IUD, thereby causing more unwanted pregnancies? Would you like to see a ban on in vitro fertilization? To grant frozen embryos in labs inheritance rights?
If not, then you ought not vote for or support Amendment 48 — because those evils and absurdities would be the real-life consequences granting fertilized eggs full legal rights. To kill or harm a fertilized egg would be a criminal offense under Colorado law, regardless of the circumstances.
The fact is that Amendment 48 is deeply, profoundly anti-life. For the details, read “Amendment 48 Is Anti-Life: Why It Matters That a Fertilized Egg Is Not a Person,” an issue paper by Ari Armstrong and myself. It’s available for download at:
http://www.SecularGovernment.us/docs/a48.pdf
The Christians supporters of Amendment 48 are welcome to act on their own beliefs in their own lives. They have no right to force their religious views on the rest of the people of Colorado — just as Muslims have no right to force Christians to pray to Allah five times per day.
Now, consider her reply:
Diana – you asked, “Are you willing to punish a woman with the death penalty or life in prison for terminating a pregnancy, whatever her circumstances?”Yes, abortion should be re-criminalized and punishable by death. As individuals we do not have the authority to legalize murder, and I believe the government should enforce the law upon those who take an innocent life. In the same respect, if a baby is conceived through rape or incest, we should not punish the child because it’s father is a criminal – the rapist and child molester should also be swiftly put to death.
If a woman’s “health” is supposedly at risk, you don’t need to intentionally kill the baby in order to save the mother’s life. Doctors should do everything in their power to save both the mother and the baby, and if the child should die from natural causes in the process, then there is nothing immoral or illegal about that.
“Do you want to ban the birth control pill and IUD, thereby causing more unwanted pregnancies?”
Well, if those forms of birth control terminate a fertilized egg or prevent implantation, then yes, they should be banned.
“To grant frozen embryos in labs inheritance rights?”
Yes! As evidence of the Snowflake Children – Since 1997 over 400,000 frozen embryos became real live human beings and were given a chance at life.
“The Christians supporters of Amendment 48 are welcome to act on their own beliefs in their own lives. They have no right to force their religious views on the rest of the people of Colorado…”
The fundamental right to life is a universal right given to us by our Creator, regardless of a person’s beliefs or religious background. Even the atheists have the right to life, and radical, baby-killing feminists like you, Diana, do NOT have the authority or the right to decide when an innocent child should die. Quit being so selfish and quit advocating for the real evils and absurdities which comes from re-defining when a person becomes a person.
Amendment 48 is simple – The term “Person” or “Persons” shall include any human from the time of fertilization.
If that’s not enough, you can find more comments from her about the evils of the self and the like in these Politics Without God comments.
A person who shrinks from the horrifyingly destructive real-life consequences of his abstract ideas might be — maybe, possibly — convinced to abandon those ideas by some further experience or argument. He has an internal conflict that might be resolved for the better.
Such a happy resolution is not possible when a person wholeheartedly embraces the horrifyingly destructive real-life consequences of her vicious ideas — as does Dani. Such a person is not admirable for her consistency; consistency is only a virtue in the service of the good. Such a person is completely evil, likely irredeemably so.
And wow, I’ve seen that too much lately.