Greg Krehbiel
Chickens and eggs
by Greg Krehbiel on 3 October 2004
This thread discusses some confusion about moral and political issues. The thing that caught my eye was the idea that the public’s heart has to change (re: abortion) before the law can change. Of course the liberals didn’t operate under that assumption. When they were pushing for legalized abortion, the country was strongly against it. They knew that popular opinion is shaped by law, and not the other way around. Moral leaders push for what is right and the people will follow.
2004-10-03 » Greg Krehbiel
3 October 2004 @ 5:03 pm
The Word Was God
New Christians and those seeking Christ are often instructed to read the Book of John, particularly the first chapter, before taking on the rest of the Bible. Among many other things, it declares that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who became flesh, an…
3 October 2004 @ 9:46 pm
Actually, the public is usually the last to be consulted on a change. Most people were against women being allowed to vote. Most people were for slavery. Only a third of Americans, so the history books say, were for the American Revolution. That means two/thirds weren’t for it.
Early term abortions (before the “quickening”,i.e. before it showed) were legal, later ones not, in 17th century England, for example. In 1850 the Church came out against abortions. Johnny-come-latelies. Roe V Wade didn’t legalize them, remember, it just made it illegal for the government to butt in on what sort of surgery you were having.