Our Chairman's Blog
From The Desk of John Owen
In addition to our challenges in Iraq and Afghanistan, America is embroiled in a Culture War, of which this election is one important battle. It is, in many respects, a war with greater casualties and many more deaths. The Census Bureau reported that the most recent American yearly death toll was 1,287,000 dead children, 715,000 white, 572,000 black or mixed race … all victims of deliberate abortion.
This election, in part, will determine if this destruction of the American family, will continue. It is simple. Barach Obama favors the right of a parent to kill a child. For John McCain, life begins at conception. For him, “aborting” a child is a polite term for killing an infant. It is criminally immoral, even if it is not legally criminal.
As Chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee in the Illinois Legislature, Barach Obama led efforts to defeat a bill called the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. In short, he voted to give government sanction to death of not only children in the womb, but newborns born alive. To Barach Obama, it is change. To John McCain it is infanticide. To most Americans, it is the systematic disembodiment of the family as we have known it, without regard to race or color. It is the surrender of the family to the worship of government.
Sometimes, it is not easy to be a family. Pregnancies are not just times of joy. Sometimes, they are times of embarrassment and challenge. At these times, when our lives seem over it is our faith that allows us to live.
To Senator Obama, this is just an example of rural illiterates “clinging to their guns and religion.” To Senator McCain, it is the same strength and belief in the Power of the Almighty that kept him safe in the dungeon of a torturous prison.
The difference between Barach Obama and John McCain is not just political, it is fundamental. A few years ago a prominent Obama supporter wrote that, “It takes a village to raise a child child”. For most of us, that concept endangers our way of life. For us , it takes a family to raise a child… and, enough faith to give that family the strength let the children live. For many of us, a Savior died so that we could live. To do less for our children is to disrespect that death and the spirit of the Resurrection that followed.
This election is not just about politics. It is about life and death…family and faith. It is about our future without reference to race. It is about our way of life.
Yours for the values we share,
John C. Owen, Chairman MCRP