I heard Dr. Alveda King speak yesterday on Vicki McKenna's radio program. Alveda is following in her uncle Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s footsteps in speaking out for civil rights for all. But the issue near and dear to her heart is one that her uncle could not even imagine--civil rights for the unborn.
Dr. King will be the keynote speaker for the Pregnancy Help Center fund raising Gala this Thursday, March 6, at Brookfield Suites. Contact Julie Caltreaux: 414-687-1691
Her mission is to make people aware that you cannot help the Dream survive while murdering children. She then gave the statistics on Planned Parenthood's genocide against Black babies. I had heard Vicki McKenna speak about this before, so it caught my attention.
Vicki asked Alveda if she was going to vote for Barack Obama for President. Alveda stated she voted for Huckabee in the primary. (Huckabee is the most pro-life candidate.)
Dr. King then added if you are automatically voting Barack just because he is Black, go back and read King's I Have a Dream speech. His (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's) Community is not based on color of his skin but the contend of his character.
Vicki brought up how Sen. Obama used his Christian faith to defend his position on abortion and mentioned that while in the Illinois Senate, he wouldn't even vote for basic comfort care for babies that survive botched abortions. (If you are unfamiliar, read the post and excerpts below.)
The Elephant in the Room: Obama: A harsh ideologue hidden by a feel-good image:
That bill was the Born Alive Infants Protection Act... Who would oppose a bill that said you couldn't kill a baby who was
born? Not Kennedy, Boxer or Hillary Rodham Clinton. Not even the
hard-core National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). Obama,
however, is another story. The year after the Born Alive Infants
Protection Act became federal law in 2002, identical language was
considered in a committee of the Illinois Senate. It was defeated with
the committee's chairman, Obama, leading the opposition.
Let's be clear about what Obama did, once in 2003 and twice before
that. He effectively voted for infanticide. He voted to allow doctors
to deny medically appropriate treatment or, worse yet, actively kill a
completely delivered living baby. Infanticide - I wonder if he'll add
this to the list of changes in his next victory speech and if the crowd
will roar: "Yes, we can."
Alveda also mentioned Barack's Sermon on the Mount speech, where Barack stated that Jesus approved of same sex marriage. "What flawed reasoning" she said. I see some flaws in his content, she added.
Obama: Sermon on Mount OKs Same-Sex Unions:
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told a crowd at Hocking College in
Nelsonville, Ohio, Sunday that he believes the Sermon on the Mount
justifies his support for legal recognition of same-sex unions. He also
told the crowd that his position in favor of legalized abortion does
not make him "less Christian."
"I don't think it [a same-sex union] should be called marriage,
but I think that it is a legal right that they should have that is
recognized by the state," said Obama. "If people find that
controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount,
which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an
obscure passage in Romans." ... St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans condemns homosexual acts as unnatural and sinful. (Hardly obscure, Romans 1: 25-28 is specific, plus the Bible teaches that all scripture is inspired.)
Dr. Alveda King is the perfect person to address these issues. She continues the great message of what America should be all about: We should judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
I hope people will look into the "content of their character" in their own lives as well as in their candidates.
Links: Betterbrookfield, Vicki Mckenna
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One reader sent me this link: Obama and Infanticide
The technical often precedes the ethical. For me, the lines of what is legal get very blurry when you look at another side of the issue. Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, Portraits of Love
