Rtlonewsletter 04 2016

Volume 45 Issue 4 April 2016

Right to Life of Owensboro

NEWSLETTER

Don’t forget to like us on Facebook: Right to Life of Owensboro Join us for our

On May 5, 2016 at Western Kentucky University Campus in Owensboro across from OCTC.at 6pm.

Come enjoy our speakers and a nice meal.

What an incredible witness: to take time out of their busy schedule to participate in the 40 Days for Life campaign! 40 Days for Life takes a determined, peaceful approach to showing local communities the consequences of abortion in their own neighborhoods, for their own friends and families. It puts into action a desire to cooperate with God in the carrying out of His plan for the end of abortion in America. From left to right RTLO first vice president Dr. Gayle Rhodes, Robert Zimmerman, Larena Lawson and James Smith. Thank you! (Location: Evansville abortion clinic)

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EDUCATION The Joy of Kissing Toads

By Michael W. Salemink, February 25, 2016

Sometimes I see monsters. Sometimes I catch sight of savages. Kermit Gosnell’s a cold-blooded, childsacrificing barbarian. School shooters and suicide bombers are animals. Abductors and abusers can hardly be called human. Journalists and entertainers endorsing abortion atop altars of promiscuity, power, and pride have become abominations. Practitioners, activists, and public officials hastening elderly and disabled persons toward physician-assisted suicide have sold their souls. Mad scientists destroying embryos as if research is an excuse are lost causes. Corporate executives disposing of mutilated little ones for profit put bloodsucking leeches to shame. Anyone who even supports this evil or advocates for such ignorance (especially with vicious internet comments!) is worse than a vulture—at least vultures wait until their prey is already dead. Somehow they seem more heartless than the rest, aren’t they?

Most High God sees the monsters too. You can be sure the Holy One beholds the barbarians. “The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man … They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good” (Psalm 14:2-3). It turns out jabberwocks live in looking glasses. The most awful monsters appear in the mirror. “There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:22-23 NIV). “And you were dead in the trespasses and sins … carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind” (Ephesians 2:1, 3). They’re not monsters any more than we are, and we’re no less animals than they. “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me” (Psalm 51:5). Even “all our righteous acts are like filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6 NIV).

Our own hearts harbor an equal capacity for evil. We have the same nature within as they do—old Adam, sinful self, monstrous and detestable as they come. The ones we demonize—what they carry out—we’ve thought about. We abort their value with our attitudes. We euthanize their worth when we insult them. We mutilate their sanctity by writing them off. What they do with poisons and knives, we inflict upon each other with slander. What they are convicted of we have just never been caught for. Where they have violated people with force, we have done it with finesse. “Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer” (1 John 3:15a), and “ … whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to hell of fire” (Matthew 5:22b).

No violence, not of word or deed, neither theirs nor ours, will rectify this situation. And our Almighty Maker will not tolerate it. Heavenly Father brings a blessed bandage and applies the only antidote. He has remedy and treatment for all of it. Loving God gives relief and healing to all of us. He became monstrous upon the cross of Jesus Christ so that He could draw near and take hold and abide among all the broken ones. “[H]is appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance” (Isaiah 52:14). “[A[s one from whom men hide their faces, he was despised” (Isaiah 53:3b). Gouged and gaunt, swollen, blackened, and bloodied, uglier than every other—even the Author of life averted His eyes from His own Son (Matthew 27:46). He owned and atoned for each person’s carnage. By grace and not force, with forgiveness instead of dominance, in resurrection rather than revenge, He serves the salvation we try and fail to extract from each other. Just as surely as Jesus arose, such compassion works.

The same fingers of God that fashioned us also handcrafted “them.” The same Lamb’s blood that covers our horrific also cleanses their hideous. The same spoken Spirit that calls our hearts also claims their souls. Created • Redeemed • Called—we have this in common with the death culture’s victims, culprits, and spectators. Father, Son, and Spirit desire them to be saved and know truth (1 Timothy 2:4) as much as us, and He takes no more pleasure in their death than ours (Ezekiel 18:32). In Christ God reconciles the world to Himself (2 Corinthians 5:19), even those who are His enemies, as we once were (Romans 5:6-10). We experience and exercise the For-Life Gospel in its beast-whispering fullness when we extend it to the contemptible the way that our Savior does.

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After all, the Father’s love and the Savior’s grace don’t just save lives. The Gospel we believe and live can redeem even a monster’s intellect, behavior, and conversation. Has God not done so unto us? Whatever satisfaction there is in concluding who and how we’re better than, greater is God’s own joy found in being forgiven and in forgiving (Luke 15:7). So let’s track down a toad to kiss. Let’s kiss all the toads until God’s goodness transforms them into royalty. Let us deal with them patiently and treat them with understanding, while settling neither for approving their lies nor excusing their sins. Let us bespeak them as beloved to God as babies. Let us show them as beautiful before heaven as grandmas. We’ve felt their sorrow; let them know our celebration. http://www.lutheransforlife.org/article/the-joy-of-kissing-toads/

EDUCATION Dear Men, Abortion Is Not A Women’s Issue.

We Have A Duty To Get Involved.

Matt Walsh, March 14, 2016 There are two facts about me that are quite evident to anyone who knows me: First, I am a man. Second, I am a man who has developed an opinion about abortion.

I am a man with an opinion about abortion. Even more shocking, I did not consult with the Feminist High Council before formulating my opinions. I did not check the rule book to make sure my man-opinions are within the spectrum of approved perspectives for someone of my anatomical persuasion. I did not fill out the forms requesting permission to publicly voice my unsanctioned beliefs, nor did I review the guidelines to determine the manner and extent to which they can be voiced.

Lord forgive me, I went off on my own and generated a point of view that, it turns out, directly defies the established orthodoxy.

And, not satisfied to keep my rogue man-opinions to my man-self, I’ve gotten into the nasty habit of telling people about them. I might have gotten away with my man-thought crimes had I just kept my man-mouth shut, but it’s too late at this point.

Now, every time I mention abortion, I’m reminded by pro-abortion women that I have no right to contribute to the discussion due to my shameful lack of a vagina. “You’re a man,” they observe as they pat themselves on the back for so effectively disproving everything I just said. This is an “argument” I hear probably 97,000 times a year, and one I heard another 1,000 times last week when I gave my thoughts on the historic abortion case now being considered by the Supreme Court.

Per tradition, I immediately heard from many feminists who were incensed that I dare say anything on the subject. As one feminist on Twitter put it, my opinion doesn’t matter because I’m a male and this is “an issue solely of reproductive rights.”

It feels a bit like nabbing low hanging fruit to actually offer a counterargument to the proposition that only (liberal) women should have an opinion on abortion, but I hear this so often that I’m beginning to think these people are sincere. They actually think abortion is a “women’s issue” — and one which men are somehow disqualified from discussing.

So for the benefit of those confused on this point, here’s why abortion is more than just a women’s issue: 1. The truth is not subject to your genitals.

File this in the “things that shouldn’t need to be said out loud” folder. Abortion is a moral question, a legal question, a scientific question, a question of truth and reality and reason. I’m not a doctor, but I’m fairly sure your genitalia will not whisper the answers to these questions to you. The answers can be ascertained by listening not to your reproductive organs, but to your conscience, and by researching the facts. These activities are generally open to members of both genders, although few from either camp choose to participate in them.

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February 25, 2016

They can be complicated, confusing, controversial, and uncomfortable. I’m talking about those things we typically address on a Sanctity of Life Sunday—the life issues. They can be complicated—stem cell research, cloning, in vitro fertilization, genetic engineering. It seems like we need to be scientists to figure it all out. They can be confusing—should we or should we not remove that feeding tube, stop that treatment, sign that Living Will, or initiate that Do Not Resuscitate order? It seems like we need to be ethicists to figure it all out. They can be controversial—why do we talk about this in church and bring it up in Bible study? These are political and social issues. Let’s stick to the Gospel. It seems like we need to be theologians to figure it all out. They can be uncomfortable—people in our pews have had abortions or pressured a girlfriend or daughter to have an abortion or were unable to stop someone from having an abortion. It seems like we need to be psychologists to figure it all out.

And it’s all true. The life issues are complicated, confusing, controversial, and uncomfortable. But today, we are going to talk about something that is, in fact, very simple. It is where we need to start before addressing any of the life issues. We will answer the question: “What has God done that gives value to human life?” The answer is found in three simple words: Created • Redeemed • Called.

Every human life has value because God creates every human life. The Bible pictures this pro-creative activity as an intimate and hands-on work. “Your hands fashioned and made me” (Job 10:8a). “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb” (Psalm 139:13 NIV). We could all have a tag attached to the back of our necks like we see on clothing. Our tag would read, “Hand Made by God!” Now some might want to interrupt here and say, “So if every human being is the work of God’s hands, then how do we explain Down syndrome babies or other babies with various physical or mental challenges?” Here is the simple answer to that question: They are the work of God’s hands. And God has a couple of questions for us about His children in Isaiah. “Do you question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands?” (45:11 NIV) and “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘You did not make me’? Can the pot say to the potter, ‘You know nothing’?” (29:16 NIV) Anybody want to challenge God about what He makes?

That God makes tiny little human beings from the moment of conception is clear in this verse from Psalm 51,

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“Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me” (v. 5 NIV). Since sinfulness is a human condition and we are sinful from the moment of conception, we must necessarily be human from the moment of conception. This verse also points us to the next thing God has done that gives value to human life.

Since we are sinful from the moment of conception, we need a Savior from the moment of conception.

We have one! Remember the angel’s words to Mary? “You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus” (Luke 1:31 NIV). Note there are two events in Jesus’ life described here, His conception and His birth. And it is His conception that is miraculous, not His birth. When the “power of the Most High” overshadowed Mary (1:35a), Jesus was conceived without the aid of an earthly father, which is why the angel also refers to Him as “the Son of God” (35b) from the moment of His conception.

“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John 1:14a NIV) at Jesus’ conception, not His birth. Jesus was not only the “God-man,” He was the “God-embryo”! His holiness at conception takes the place of our un-holiness at conception. What value this gives to all embryos from that very moment!

But there is more. Jesus needed to develop in a womb. He needed feet to walk among us. He needed hands to touch and heal the sick. He needed a mouth so He could teach. He needed a heart to be filled with compassion for the lost. He needed a body so He could take little children in His arms and hold them close and bless them.

And there are deeper reasons for Jesus’ human development in the womb. He needed those hands and feet to be pierced as He was nailed to the cross in our place. He needed a mouth to utter that forsaken cry so we never have to. He needed a heart to pump the blood that would be shed and bring cleansing for sin, and then be stilled in death. He needed a body to be buried in a tomb, and then to rise again victorious over death and the grave!

Paul says that we were “bought at a price” (1 Corinthians 6:20a NIV). All that Jesus did from His conception onward was part of that price. Paul reminds the Ephesian pastors of the magnitude of this price when he tells them, “Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood” (Acts 20:28b NIV). God did not purchase us with the blood of a man or the blood of some holy martyr. God purchased us with His own blood in the person of Jesus! The price paid for sinful humanity was high. The value it gives to human life is incalculable. Not every human being knows this, of course, and it is the task of the Church to share this message. But the fact remains, Jesus’ life and death and resurrection give value to all human life. Every human being is created and redeemed.

One simple answer is left. Every human life has value because every person is someone God desires to call into an eternal relationship with Him; He “wants all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4 NIV). He wants every human life to be splashed with His Holy Spirit in the waters of Baptism. He who created every life with His hands and redeemed every life with His hands wants to call us all as His children and hold us, indeed “engrave” us, in the palms of His hands (Isaiah 49:16) now and in eternity.

Created • Redeemed • Called—it is not complicated or confusing or controversial or uncomfortable at all. Its simplicity speaks profoundly to all of the life issues. So allow me to end with some quiz questions.

Why do we strive to protect tiny embryos in Petri dishes or frozen in a fertility clinic? Because they are created, redeemed, and little ones whom God wants to call.

Why do we speak up for those in the womb who cannot speak? Because they are created, redeemed, and little ones whom God wants to call.

What do we teach our little children so that when they are older, sexual promiscuity and abortion will be unthinkable? They are very special because they are created, redeemed, and called.

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What do we tell you young people as you struggle with temptations and tough choices, mood swings, and confused feelings about your identity? We want you to know whose you are and that you can make good choices because you are created, redeemed, and called.

What do we share with that unmarried, pregnant college freshman who is ashamed and afraid and sees only one way out? We share that she is loved and forgiven and not forsaken because she is created, redeemed, and called.

What do we say to women and men crushed in the aftermath of an abortion decision? They are created, redeemed, and called, and therefore NOTHING can separate them from the love of God in Christ Jesus.

What do we share with the infertile couple desperately desiring a child? They are created, redeemed, and called, and they can trust in the ways and will of their God. What can we say to those who miscarry a child they already know and love? They are created, redeemed, and called, and God holds them in His hands.

What do we have to share with the frail elderly who wonder about God’s purpose for their lives? They are created, redeemed, and called, and as long as God gives them life, He gives their lives meaning and purpose.

Undoubtedly, this list could be even longer. But the answer will still be the same. Our lives have value.

Every life has value because every life is someone created by God, redeemed by the blood of Jesus, and someone He either has called or wants to call into an eternal relationship with Him. It doesn’t have to be complicated! Amen. http://www.lutheransforlife.org/article/created-redeemed-called-a-message-for-life-sunday/

Letter from the PRESIDENT Easter is a time when we remember the sacrifice made on our behalf by God's own Son. He came to seek and save that which was lost. He came to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and to give us beauty for ashes. He came offering life and that is more abundant and eternal.

Because of this one incredible life, you and I can have an incredible life filled with purpose and direction. The Christian life is one of meaning and of purpose. At least, it should be that way. Too often we let the distractions of this world and this life take our focus from the One who came to give His life a ransom for many. Many times we get so busy, we forget to keep our focus on Him. We're pro-life because we believe God creates all life and gives each life value. In our struggle to bring this knowledge to our community let us not forget His great love for each of us. Let us not forget why we strive to proclaim pro-life values. It's all for the One who is worthy to receive all our worship and admiration. To Him be all glory forever and ever. Amen.

Jerry Embry RTLO President

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Dear Men continued Here’s what it comes down to: abortion is murder or it is not. Unborn children are people or they are not. It is morally acceptable to kill an innocent human being or it is not. A woman cannot change the objective answers to these questions, and neither can a man. I’m sure it is true that women have a greater emotional insight into this issue — many of them having carried and birthed children themselves — but an insight into the truth is not the same as an ability to alter it.

Indeed, it’s precisely this emotional insight that leads most women to oppose abortion. The ones who support it do so by ignoring their particular womanly insight. You’ll notice that pro-life women sound passionate and eloquent and feminine when they defend their position, whereas pro-abortion women sound like men. That’s because the pro-abortion movement pretends to defend women but actually encourages women to reject that which makes them women.

Pro-abortion progressivism tells us that reproduction is an activity unique to females – a scientific theory that a third grade biology education reveals as false, but we’ll get to that in a moment — and then tells us that men can’t have anything relevant to say about it. But the trouble is that progressivism seeks to brutalize and ultimately eliminate that which is unique to women. It is the pro-lifers, both men and women, who love and respect the unique characteristics of womanhood. It is the pro-life movement that displays a real knowledge of, and appreciation for, the female experience and the female body. Pro-aborts, on the other hand, are experts in womanhood the same way an arsonist is an expert in architecture. He knows how to burn it down, and that’s all he’s interested in doing.

2. No woman has ever reproduced without the indispensable assistance of a man.

I say that men “assist” in reproduction, but that is a considerable understatement. The reproductive act is one that requires 100 percent from each of the participants. That’s the wonder of human sexuality: it’s complementary and co-creative. If done in the right context, for the right reasons, it’s a mutual expression of love and devotion, and from that expression there is the possibility of an entirely new life forming.

Our culture has long wanted to strip the love, beauty, fidelity, and creative potential from sex and turn it instead into an ugly, selfish, fleeting, individualistic, self-focused activity. In our society, we pursue our selves when we have sex, just as, according to progressive doctrine, the entire point of life and every moment and action contained within it is to pursue our selves. It’s therefore no surprise when we hear so many people insist that men have nothing to do with the human lives they create.

We can’t even have an opinion as to whether the babies we helped bring into existence are savagely murdered and sold for parts at a Planned Parenthood clinic. As a man, according to progressives, my child is not my child so long as he is dependent on his mother’s body for survival. This is a bit like saying my wife’s children were not her children when I watched them by myself for three days while she visited her sister. Parenthood does not work that way, or at least it shouldn’t. Progressives know this, which is why, once the baby is born, they are quick to call a man a deadbeat if he doesn’t stick around to raise the child they just spent nine months describing as a non-human blob that’s none of his business or concern.

Talk about mixed messages.

Now, I make no excuses for men who abandon their families, but I do think progressives have put themselves in a position where they cannot condemn such men without being spectacular hypocrites (not that they ever let a little hypocrisy slow them down). It’s certainly detestable for a man to reject his children, because they are his children. They were his children from the beginning, and will remain so until the end. And they are her children, too. And that is the whole beauty of it. They are totally hers and totally his.

I spend my life obsessing over what is mine, what I can possess and own and claim to myself, but when I form a family and have children, finally for the first time “me” becomes “we.” In my children and my marriage I find something that is greater than myself. Something that transcends myself. I have something that is absolutely mine and absolutely not mine, all at once. I am sharing something. I am a part of something.

Progressives refuse to grow past this attitude of ownership and possession, especially when it comes to procreation. They treat children as objects to be owned and controlled. A human who depends on another becomes the property of the person entrusted to care for them. The child is a product, a belonging, chattel. It’s possessed by it’s mother like a person possesses a plot of land or a house or a car or a cell phone. Or, perhaps most accurately, a slave.

But a child is not a possession. And he does not belong only to his mother.

3. Men are duty-bound to oppose abortion.

There are only two types of pro-abortion men: those who are deeply confused about the issue, and those who are selfish, cowardly creeps.

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Marilee’s Message God's Timing

Has anyone ever told you not to rush something? Have they ever told you to have faith and wait for God's timing? There has never been a statement truer, and yet, we all have a difficult time actually doing it.

A few months back, I took a new job that demanded most of my time and energy. My family has missed me, and I have missed them, I have not been able to volunteer my time to the Pro Life Movement as much as I would like.

I found myself thinking that I am not doing enough. I worried that God put me here to make a difference, but I am too busy to make that difference. How many women have I missed a chance to reach? How many babies have lost their lives because I am not doing enough?

A very good friend reminded me that my job was also a gift from God. He placed me in the Pro Life Movement, but He also placed me in my working position for a reason. This friend also reminded me that there is only one person that can save the world, and He did that a very long time ago when He died on the cross for our sins. I long to find a way to devote my life to this movement, but it needs to happen in God's time.

God knows the desires of our hearts, but He also knows His will, and what He wants to happen first. He had me going full throttle for a while, and now must be the time that He wants me to step back and learn patience. That is, until He has something new for me to do.

I will fight for life for eternity, but I have learned that God brought me here and God has led every step I have taken since. He won’t stop now. I just have to believe, have patience, and trust His timing for my life.

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Dear Men Continued from page 5 Page 10 It’s no surprise that men of the second type also quite magnanimously support a woman’s right to go out half naked, get drunk, and sleep with strangers. These are the men who rise up like white knights to defend Kim Kardashian when she releases one of her bi-weekly nude selfies. “Don’t body shame her,” they proclaim courageously. “Let women diminish themselves and desperately flaunt their bodies for attention! We have no right to criticize them!”

True heroes, these men. Or it could be that they rather enjoy watching women debase themselves, just as they enjoy encountering drunk women with low standards and no self-respect. And because they enjoy these things so much, they certainly will be very supportive when the women they take advantage of choose to “terminate” the consequences, thereby relieving the generous men of all responsibility.

They say they support abortion because they respect women, but the reality is exactly the opposite. They support abortion because they take so much pleasure in not respecting women.

The men who conceive children and act so “supportive” when the woman considers abortion are not actually supportive at all. Supporting is precisely the thing they wish to avoid doing. A man has a duty to his child, and when you “support” a woman’s decision to kill your own son or daughter, you have shirked that duty in the worst possible way.

And men have a duty not just to their own children, but to society generally. Men should be protectors of the innocent and warriors for truth and dignity. Men are called to show strength, leadership, and moral clarity in the face of atrocities like abortion. Men are commanded to “stand in the gap,” as it says in Scripture. Men who fail in this regard do so out of fear, or perhaps out of ignorance, but never out of tolerance or respect.

I find myself even more disappointed in pro-abortion men than I am in proabortion women. Some of the women who get abortions are coerced and intimidated into the decision. Often they are young, scared, brainwashed, and ignorant. This doesn’t mitigate the evil of abortion, but it shows how the abortion industry victimizes more than just the child it kills. But men who stand off on the sidelines and say, “sure, yeah, kill your kid — it’s none of my business”? What excuse do they have? They aren’t the ones the abortion industry specifically tries to prey upon and deceive. It is, in some sense, “easier” for a man to be pro-life, which is why it’s such a disgrace when he is not.

The pro-abortion movement is just another sinister force in America convincing men to be weak, selfish, and submissive. Indeed, cowardly, emasculated men are the primary beneficiaries — really, the only beneficiaries — of feminism. Thanks to feminism, they are excused from the duties of fatherhood, and they are excused from the duty or taking principled and virtuous stands in defense of the innocent, and for their troubles they get to watch a bunch of “empowered” women post naked selfies all over the internet. Feminism kills babies and destroys womanhood, but spineless, effeminate men make out like bandits.

As for those of us who wish not to accept the “gifts” feminism wants to give us, we must continue to barge into the discussion and rudely involve ourselves in issues like abortion, because that is our responsibility. Notice I am not saying men should speak out against abortion even though they are men; I’m saying they ought to speak out because they are men. We’re already in bad shape when men in our culture simply fail to be moral leaders. We’re basically doomed when they decide they have no right to be leaders, or that stepping aside and failing to lead is somehow a virtuous act.

My opinion on abortion matters because I’m a human being with a conscience and a basic understanding of science. And it matters because I’m a former unborn child who benefited tremendously from not being aborted.

And it matters especially because I’m a man, just as a woman’s opinion on the subject matters especially because she’s a woman. Both camps have an important and unique voice on this issue, and there is no excuse for either group to remain silent.

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