Praying For the Innocents?

Back in mid-October I blogged about the upcoming elections and wondered if evangelical Christians in this country were awake or not regarding the elections. I am not a political blogger. But where politics concern morality, and they usually do, I tend to be vocal about the subject. I mentioned back then that abortion in this country was the watershed issue for me. I couldn't vote for Barack Obama for a host of reasons, but chiefly because of his stance on abortion.

I am not surprised that Barack Obama hasn't signed the Freedom of Abortion act as yet, because that is just a matter of political maneuvering. A number of self-proclaimed evangelical Christian pastors and authors supported the President with their votes in an act of trusting the man will do as he implied and reduce the number of abortions. So did a lot of other evangelicals. I'm sorry they fell for his rhetoric, and for a compromised approach to solving such a heinous and shameful crime against humanity. Actually I hope that they feel some shame for their mistake and make better choices in that area in the future, but I seriously doubt they will, because they have been taken in.

The President is at it again. It appears that on Monday, he will officially announce that Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebellius has accepted his request to become the nation's Health Secretary. It is no wonder that she is being tapped. She is about as radical an abortion proponent as you can find. What works for her? The Democrats hold very close to super majority in the Senate. They have breezed through just about any nominee who hasn't had tax problems exposed to the public. What works against her? She is associated with a late-term abortionist (George Tiller) in her state who is being brought up on charges of performing illegal abortions.

White House officials have said that this could be a problem. Duh. I hope so, because if she is confirmed as Health Secretary she would be an integral player in crafting a national health care plan, a pet project of the President. In such a position, Sabellius could push for taxpayer funds to pay for abortions and perhaps demand that independent insurance companies be responsible to pay for abortions in their plans. As well, she could roll right over the pro-life protections that President Bush established protecting pro-life physicians and clinics. She could also help to pave the way for wide open embryonic stem cell research, which is something the President has promised will become a reality.

If the evangelicals who voted for Barack Obama in November think that the Governor isn't likely to play such a radical role should she be confirmed by the Senate, they should check her out. She vetoed pro-life legislation in 2003, '04 and '05. She vetoed a bill that would have made explicit medical reasons for a late-term abortion mandatory. Golly. Who needs one of those pesky ol' reasons anyway? Just last April she vetoed a bill that the state legislature approved, because it would have solidified the state's limitations on late-term abortions. Can't have that.

Last August, Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of the Archdiocese of Kansas City officially requested in a newspaper column that she refrain from taking Holy Communion until she changed her stance on the issue. Good for him. Unfortunately, she went ahead and partook of the sacraments anyway because of course, no church authority figure is going to tell her what to do. He wrote another letter asking her to respect his request. I think he should bar her from taking it. If it were at my own church and the pastor told her the deal, she would not be allowed. Seriously, who is driving this train? Paul was pretty clear about putting blatantly unrepentant people out of the church until they towed the Biblical line, and it seemed to work. Nancy Pelosi is told by the very Pope that she needs to knock it off and she could apparently give a rip either.

If an Associate Press article is true, Governor Sabellius' spokeswoman Nicole Corcoran said that Sabellius hasn't "seen" the column written by the Archbishop. That's just a cute way of saying that she doesn't care to read it and she doesn't want to. That's kind of like that little kid who wants his parents to think he's sleeping, but when they check in on him, see that his eyes are clamped tightly shut. She isn't fooling anybody except for those who wish to be fooled.