This much we know

Today, President Barack Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast. Just before announcing his new office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, he said something that would not be expected from one of the most pro-abortion politicians.

The text can be found here on the White House website.

I raise this history because far too often, we have seen faith wielded as a tool to divide us from one another – as an excuse for prejudice and intolerance. Wars have been waged. Innocents have been slaughtered. For centuries, entire religions have been persecuted, all in the name of perceived righteousness.

There is no doubt that the very nature of faith means that some of our beliefs will never be the same. We read from different texts. We follow different edicts. We subscribe to different accounts of how we came to be here and where we’re going next – and some subscribe to no faith at all.

But no matter what we choose to believe, let us remember that there is no religion whose central tenet is hate. There is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being. This much we know.

Did you catch that?  I’m pleased to hear the President admit this much. But it remains to be seen whether the increase in his pay grade will enable him to accept basic science, namely that from the point of conception a unique (& innocent) human being now exists and that abortion involves killing an “innocent human being.”
Interestingly, he used the phrase “human being” and not “human person.” Many abortion advocates will argue that the unborn child is not a human person. Personhood involves philosophy, ethics, and – for some of us – theology. But the language of a “human being” is in some ways much more scientific and demonstrably true.

Why not take a moment to contact the President to commend him for these words, while explaining that, regardless of one’s pay grade, they also refer to the unborn child in its mother’s womb?

If we do not speak out, then we allow others to speak for us, including the reported pro-abortion advisors that will be part of his Faith-Based project.