Kirsten Jillebrand, anti-abortion laws are against Christian faith.

This is Dr. Jim Denison's The Daily Article Podcast for Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019.

Kirsten Julebrand has been serving in the U.S. Senate since 2009 and announced her candidacy

for president in March.

Last Thursday, amid the furor over Georgia's heartbeat bill,

she booked a trip to the state where she protested what she called a war on women.

According to CBS News, the senator told a press conference that laws banning or restricting abortion

are against Christian faith. She explained, if you are a person of the Christian faith, one of the tenets

of our faith is free will. One of the tenets of our democracy is that we have a separation of

church and state. And under no circumstances are we supposed to be imposing our faith on other people.

And I think this is an example of that effort. In other news, the House of Representatives is no longer including,

So Help Me God, when witnesses swear to tell the truth before Congress. A long essay

in The New Yorker is extolling secular atheism. And Jim Carrey drew a cartoon depicting

the late-term abortion of Alabama Governor K. Ivey, after she signed her state's abortion

bill and stated that, every life is a sacred gift from God. We can respond as Christians to each of these issues,

but should we? Is defending biblical morality in an increasingly antagonistic culture worth our

time? Is it a distraction from loving God and loving each other? Or is it a calling from God?

When Peter was called before the Sanhedron, after healing a lame man, the apostle declared his faith in Jesus and

refused to cease preaching the gospel. When Paul was arrested in Philippi, he cited his Roman

citizenship in defending himself. When called before the Sanhedron, he defended the hope and the resurrection

of the dead. Jesus warned his followers that the authorities will deliver you over to courts and

flog you in their synagogues, and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake

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