Thursday, July 14, 2011

Pro-Choice Mormons?

Pro-Choice means pro-abortion.  Denying is just playing games with words.  I am pro-life (or anti-abortion).  One may claim they are not in favor of abortion, but rather in favor of people deciding for themselves.  This is false doctrine to support an abomination. 
I am embarassed to have association with a caller to the Dennis Prager Show who claimed to be a Mormon who was pro-choice.  What a confused soul.  He was responding to Dennis talking about Hvistendahl's book, Unnatural Selection.  Dennis was making the case that abortion is morally wrong (regardless of legality).  People need to be educated and they would make better choices.  There is a difference between morality and legality. 
There is a silly argument floating around about "not legislating morality" and letting people make moral choices.  This caller tried to make that argument.  He said that he is against abortion morally but doesn't feel it is right to enforce his decisions on others through the law.  Dennis talked with him a few minutes and I think convinced him that he needed to rethink his position.  Dennis pointed out that the argument about legality and morality was only a question of where to draw the line.   We do not legislate our religious laws about what we eat and drink but we do make laws about not stealing or killing.  Both come from God through the Bible.  Why enforce one but not the other?  Where does abortion fall on that scale?  Should it be a law or a guideline?
Can we let people choose to have abortions? 
Dennis does not debate theology so he did address the theological argument that the caller made.  I think Dennis knows enough about the Church of Jesus Christ.  He was being polite or sticking to his policy about not debating religion.  But the point needs to be made that the man believes bad doctrine.  The point was clarified about the law but not about the doctrine of choice as known to mormons.   There are many rewards, gifts and blessing in this life and in the next.  The most important to a Latter-Day Saint are eternal life (to live with God), the Atonement of Jesus, the chance to get a body in this world and finally the gift of agency which means we get to choose what we do.  The gift of choice is everything.  We choose to follow God's commandments, we chose to come to earth to get a body, we choose to follow Jesus as our Savior and accept his will.  Choice is good and important.  Despite all that abortion is wrong, and although not murder, should be illegal.

People need to make the world better by enforcing law.  Law should reflect the morality of the people.  For a christian country like ours, the strictness of their law represents their adherence to God's law and aknowledgement of His wisdom and voluntary submission to His will.   All laws are moral.  Law reflects morality.   Our society has not improved as we have loosened all social norms and made immoral behavior legal.   Many are so confused as to equate the two, saying that if something is not against the law then it is not wrong.   We should restrain ourselves and punish wicked behavior. 

Life is more important than choice.  Agency is engaged in the choice to have sex. Consequences follow.  Abortion should be illegal and any mormon that thinks otherwise is a moral idiot and I think against the doctrine of the church.

3 comments:

  1. The common cry is, "You can't legislate morality." So, I ask, "What are laws for?" Every law on our books is based on a moral judgement. One of government's roles is to protect those who cannot protect themselves from exploitation and harm. I know of nobody less capable of defending themselves than an unborn baby.

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  2. The world is doing such a good job of confusing the issues. God's laws are unchanging and the agency we were given was not to try to change God or His laws but to decide if we are willing to accept and live His laws. God cleary wants us not to mess with the giving or taking of lives. So the choice needs to happen long before it gets to that point. Abortion is not where choice comes into play.
    I heard a commercial just yesterday that made me more aware of how screwy things are. It was a commercial asking for my donation to help needy animals, actually saying "every live is valuable"....What? That same actor endorsing that every animal life should be valued endorses pro choice, and that gov't should pay for that "choice". Creepy.
    And just for the record. Why don't you keep the free t-shirt or jacket (with the logo) that you are willing to send me and use that as my donation.

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  3. Mississippi will make abortion illegal (essentially) by improving the definition of a person.
    http://smartgirlpolitics.ning.com/profile/blogs/go-mississippi-keep-rolling-along-go-mississippi-go-go-go

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