No corporate welfare for the merchants of death PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:44

This is an open letter to the Bloomington City Council by CCFL member Scott Tibbs.

Dear Councilors,

In its most recent annual report, Planned Parenthood reported that the combined revenue of the national office and all affiliates was $1.0482 billion, while the expenses for the organization came to $1.0297 billion. This is an excess or revenue over expenses of $18.5 million. In addition, Planned Parenthood of Indiana reported $15,135,052 in revenue in its most recent annual report, while PPIN spent $14,232,019 - an excess of revenue over expenses of over $900,000.

Yet, once again, our local Planned Parenthood branch is coming to you for a handout of money confiscated from the taxpayers. They want you to give them $4,975 for a sex education program in partnership with Indiana University. With the exception of 2009, Planned Parenthood has come to the city council for a handout every single year since 1999 and the council has willingly handed over the taxpayers' money. It is more than clear that Planned Parenthood does not need this money, as the organization has plenty of money floating around to fund their sex education program.

So since PP does not need the money they are requesting, why are they coming to you for the 13th time? The answer is obvious, and PP is asking for money for the same reason they always ask for money. This is political. Planned Parenthood wants a political endorsement from city government. This request for help is fraudulent, and it is long past time for this charade to end.
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"Pro-life Without Hypocrisy" PDF Print E-mail

Delivered January 22, 2011 at the Monroe County Courthouse in Bloomington, IN, On the occasion of the 39th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

Joseph Bayly is the pastor of ClearNote Church Indianapolis. See more about ClearNote Church at www.ClearNoteChurch.com

I want to start by reading a quote:

“You say that you think [it] is wrong, but you denounce all attempts to restrain it. Is there anything else that you think wrong, that you are not willing to deal with as a wrong? Why are you so careful, so tender of this one wrong and no other? You will not let us do a single thing as if it were wrong; there is no place where you will allow it to be even wrong; there is no place where you will allow it even to be called wrong! We must not call it wrong in politics because that is bringing religion into politics; we must not call it wrong in the pulpit because that is bringing politics into religion...and there is no single place, according to you, where this wrong thing can be properly called wrong!”

That quote is Abraham Lincoln speaking about slavery to those who claimed to think it was wrong, but who were unwilling to actually act to bring it to an end.

Eight years ago today, my father drove from Bloomington up to the state house in Indianapolis and read that quote as he preached to those who were present, to those who had ears to hear, proclaiming that God hates the shedding on innocent blood. He spent a fair bit of time pointing out similarities between the atrocious practice of slavery and the atrocious practice of abortion. He pointed out how each of these practices was defended by the United States Supreme Court, one in the Dred Scott decision, and the other in Roe v. Wade decision. He ended by calling all men to obey God and take responsibility for protecting the weak and innocent.

Today I have come from Indianapolis to the courthouse at Bloomington to repeat that same call to each of you. For me to preach on the sanctity of life, or the evils of abortion would certainly be appropriate, and I know it would be good and helpful. But in reality, most of you who are here have already heard, you already know, that from conception a human life is a man made in God’s image and is precious to Him. You already know and agree that abortion is the process of bringing that precious life to a tragic and untimely end. And so, no matter how strong my case that abortion is wicked and must be stopped, no matter how grand my rhetoric, in the end, I’m afraid that it would be of little benefit to most of you. Like preaching to the choir, each of you would be able to leave patting yourself on the back for already believing what I preached.
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