To be pro-life means we place the highest value on every human life, not on only some. [More]Yeah, what's wrong with you infidels, anyway?
I'm perfectly happy to let useful idiot Rob Schenck sacrifice himself. But when he makes himself a tool of atheist totalitarians, when that enables enforceable-at-gunpoint monopoly of violence edicts, and when that ensnares me and mine, he assumes domestic enemy status.
[Via Mike M]
The concept that various Christian sects can be rabid opponents of gun rights is nothing new. In particular, the United Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church USA virtually founded the entire modern gun-control movement and remain driving forces within it.
ReplyDeleteThe National Council to Ban Handguns was established in 1974 by Rev. Jack Corbett of the Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church, and did not become organizationally independent of the Board until two years later. (Alan Gottlieb takes credit for this; he filed a lawsuit against the church’s abuse of its tax-exempt privileges to indulge in political activism.) Later, NCBH became the “Coalition to Stop Gun Violence,” still housed in the Methodist Building in DC, along with Josh Sugarmann’s Violence Policy Center.
The National Council for Responsible Firearms Ownership (nobody wants to take your guns, obviously) was founded by Reverend Elliott Corbett of the United Methodist Church, who wrote to a supporter that his organization would "eventually” take the stand that "handguns should be outlawed" but that he was “not anxious to rouse the opposition before we get the other legislation passed.”
If you write the United Methodist Church and ask nicely, you will receive a letter from them stating that they oppose the private ownership of guns, and that self-defense is immoral.
Reverend Young, once the Criminal Justice Program Director of the Presbyterian Church USA, testified before Congress
that: "The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA has declared in the context of handgun control and in many other contexts, that it is opposed to the killing of anyone, anywhere, for any reason." In 1996 the General Assembly
stated that "except for military and law enforcement use, further manufacture and sale of assault weapons and concealable handguns should be prohibited.”
Conservative gunnies like to say that the whole ethos of the Bill of Rights stems from Christian religious tradition, but some Christians can be as wacko about your rights as any pagan. And, as the JPFO newsletter recently mused, the “Never Again” Jews seem to have mostly taken up residence in Israel, whereas the “Thank you sir, may I have another?” Jews came to the US.