Should the “Church” Support Prop. 73?
I can think of many reasons for the church not to announce support of Prop. 73. It is “political”, it is “contentious”, it is “worldly”, it is “not the Church’s business”, it is “irrelevant to God’s predestined plan of salvation and victory”, it is a matter of “private conscience”, it is “too sensitive”, it does not go “far enough” to address abortion, and so impliedly condones it. Most importantly, it is a good idea, but not a church priority. It is, in other words, on the other side of the boundary that separates church and state, faith and practice, heaven and earth. Things are peaceful this way, and so let’s just keep it this way.
That hundreds of thousands of human lives will be destroyed in California this year, that young women (and men) will be scarred deeply, maybe permanently by their choices to kill, that families will be weakened and insulted by the current law—let me be clear: None of that is the business of the Church. God did not mean in Matt. 22:37 to include the wounded and vulnerable unborn in the definition of “neighbor”. Those “foreign” objects in the wombs of strangers can be cast off to die at the roadside. We on the other hand must move on. We have to attend church, and we’re late.
