On December 14, 2012, another inexplicable act of violence against defenseless children occurred. News agencies across the nation reported President Obama’s emotional response to the slaughter of 26 people at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Speaking from the White House, President Obama, visibly emotional, stated, “The majority of those who died today were children. Beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old…they had their entire lives ahead of them, birthdays, graduation, weddings, kids of their own.”
Isn’t this already despicable act worsened when the victims are innocent, defenseless children? It seems that all people, regardless of religion, philosophy, theism or atheism, agree that such an act is morally wrong. President Obama affirmed this common judgment when he said, “I react not as a president but as anybody else would; as a parent…I know there’s not another parent in America who doesn’t feel the same overwhelming grief that I do.”
Though I agree with the President’s words, I wonder why he doesn’t experience the same sense of tragedy and loss resulting from a daily wholesale slaughter of children: abortion.
I pray our nation’s leaders and citizenry will realize that murdering any child is wrong. I also pray those who oppose my view will understand that my opposition to abortion doesn’t mean I hate women. Nor does it mean I disregard the rights of women or view them as “second-class citizens.” In fact, Christianity demands of me that I protect women and children and defend all person’s inalienable rights. It naturally follows that the slaughter of helpless, defenseless children, whether cornered in a grade-school class room or inescapably confined in a mother’s womb, is equally horrific, shameful, and wrong.
In no way am I comparing the Sandy Hook gunman to women who have chosen abortion nor doctors who perform them. I am stating that murdering children is wrong.
Referring to the victims of the shooting tragedy, President Obama said, “These children are our children.” I assume he meant the children killed were citizens of the United States of America, implying that the lives of such children should be defended and protected by our laws. I pray he and our citizen-government will learn to extend that same national right and legal protection to all our children, including those who yet reside in the womb awaiting their futures.
May we be moved by the loss of these innocents in Newtown, Connecticut, as well as the 4,000 daily in wombs across America, as this week marks 40 years since Roe v. Wade. But may we be not merely moved to emotion, but to action, to make the murder of all children illegal in this country.
- January 2013
Amen, Pastor Wilson. Thank-you for sharing your thoughts with us this morning.
Petie~ Thank-you for the inspiration! ;D I think I’ll go ask my dad if he would be willing to guest post on my blog sometime. I think it would be quite interesting.
Take care, and hope you all have a good day!
Unfortunately, we no longer have a citizen-government. We have a lobby-government, driven by selfish needs instead of the needs of the people. Criminals are no longer guilty because they didn’t know what they were doing under the “control” of drugs. Women didn’t know what they were doing because the guy’s didn’t take proper precautions. Because God has been removed from the equation, in both State Government’s, National Government’s and the Court System, we’re no longer responsible for our actions, according to those who make money off this same reasoning.
Why has this occurred? Simple, really; when a God fearing people are in control of the Government, the people themselves cannot be controlled. Only after the people have been turned into sheep can they be controlled. As long as the people believe in and live under the laws set forth by God, we can’t become sheep.
In today’s society, murderers, condemned to die live for decades, protected in a single cell with all the amenities that we pay more than $1M each per year for. The child molester who ruins the lives of dozens of children gets out of jail after serving eight-years of a thirty-year sentence and then murders their next victim. Proponents of this ridiculousness argue that jail is not a proper rehabilitation system. Jail was never meant to be! Jail was meant to put them away to protect us, the people; yet it is them who are being protected from us, the victims.
When we the people, retake our government through responsible, caring, non-violent consideration through voting, things will change. As long as we are not considered responsible for our actions and the brainwashing continues, the horrors of wholesale murder of innocence will continue to be an acceptable alternative to responsibility.
Thank you for this! It was very powerful and filled with truth.
this was wonderful and needed to be said. Brilliantly said, Mr. Wilson!
hey dad!
this is so amazingly true. when you think about what people will say when it comes to child murder. I mean, pretty much everyone hates it with a passion and then you say, “well what about abortion?” and suddenly, well, that lil child in the womb isn’t actually a real person and it’s not really murder and it’s just the mothers choice. it’s like the mother/father/parents have decided, and so has government, that they can play God. they have been given the right to take a life legally and that gives them a choice to do only what God should do.
this was a awesome guest post! but I’m pretty sure that you should’ve said something awfully embarrassing about petie……yup. hehehehe.
It is amazing how our culture and government can say such things when they are in fact condemning their own actions and policies by their words. Thank you for putting this so well
It was nice getting to hear from you, Mr. Wilson!
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AMEN AMEN AMEN. Now I see where you get your smarts and writing skills from!
Bravo, Mr Wilson, bravo.
ahh, truth truth truth. I’ve been involved in a lot of pro-life work & outreach, and it’s crazy how people don’t see the hypocrisy and irony when a comparison like this can be drawn. sigh. yeah. forty years of roe vs. wade. God’s gotta have something at work here, that’s all I can hope.
So true and something I’ve been turning over in my head since the tragedy in Newtown. Such hypocrisy to be mourning these children while advocating the murder of so many more. We pray and trust God will do something amazing through this.