“When a woman wants a child but can’t afford one because she hasn’t the education necessary for a sustainable job, or access to health care, or day care, or adequate food, it is the abysmal priorities of our nation, the lack of social supports, the absence of justice that are the tragedies; the abortion is a blessing.
“And when a woman becomes pregnant within a loving, supportive, respectful relationship; has every option open to her; decides she does not wish to bear a child; and has access to a safe, affordable abortion – there is not a tragedy in sight -- only blessing. The ability to enjoy God’s good gift of sexuality without compromising one’s education, life’s work, or ability to put to use God’s gifts and call is simply blessing.
“These are the two things I want you, please, to remember – abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Let me hear you say it: abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done.” The Rev. Dr. Katherine Ragsdale was appointed as the sixth and newest president of Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) in Cambridge, MA, March 30 2009
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - The U.S. Episcopal Church is poised to become the first major religious denomination in the United States to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages after its bishops overwhelmingly approved such a liturgy on Monday. . . .The United Church of Christ, a mainstream Protestant denomination with about a million members, has gone further so far than any other U.S. church, voting in 2005 to support same sex marriage. Chicago Tribune
Chances are that if you choose to believe that abortion is a blessing, you will also bless same sex marriage. You will considered yourself nuanced and fully evolved. This is marriage of opinion, or if you insist, conviction is as mainline as it gets.
Mainline Protestant churches and denominations have long approved Darwin's survival of the fittest. The Mainline Protestant churches ( United Church of Christ, United Methodist, Evangelical Lutheran, and Episcopal as well as Quakers and the various Moravian churches) get their name form the old Philadelphia suburb along the Pennsylvania Mainline Railroad, noted for its affluence. The more affluent one might be the more one might associate with Mainline Protestantism*. With affluence comes educational opportunity and a post-secondary degree more than possible. Mainline Protestantism takes a nuanced view of scripture known as High Criticism - this holds that the Bible should only be regarded as a neat read - "Mainline denominations generally teach that the Bible is God's Word in function, but that it must be interpreted both through the lens of the cultures in which it was originally written, and examined using God-given reason. Mainline Christian groups are often more accepting of other beliefs and faiths." ( emphasis my own).
If God's Word is regarded in function, no wonder Bill Moyers is the Mainliner's Pope. God never wrote speeches for LBJ insisting more kids get sent to Vietnam, after all. Likewise, God never should the 'good sense' to turn on LBJ when things got uncomfortable. The heart wants what the heart wants.
America's secularism is rooted in Mainline Protestantism. Margaret Sanger's genocide of millions has had the full communion and hearty support of Mainline Protestantism. Gay marriage is merely an adjunct of abortion.
The Episcopal Church in America announced its full and unflagging support for the marriage of Man and Man, or Woman and Woman. The Episcopal Church has fully evolved and joined abortion and gay marriage in its rituals, doctrines and teachings. Killing an unborn child is blessing. Wedlock without water - there will be no offspring in a same sex marriage no matter how many times the Rev. Doctor Ragsdale intones over the couple.
An Episcopal pre-school will be little more than a orphanage.
* Mainline Protestant Income:
- 25% Reported less than a $30,000 income per year.
- 21% Reported $30,000-$49,999 per year.
- 18% Reported $50,000-$74,999 per year.
- 15% Reported $75,000-$99,999 per year.
- 21% Reported an income of $100,000 per year or more, compared to only 13 percent of evangelicals.[31]
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