Unfortunately it is not a law that protects unborn babies: in Canada, an unborn baby can be aborted at any stage in a woman’s pregnancy.
There are laws, though, that protect the fragile sensibilities of abortion clinics and their clientele by enforcing a buffer zone around the clinic preventing pro-life demonstrators holding up signs or engaging in the ultimate act of civil disobedience: praying.
Hence, Linda Gibbons – who seems determined to illustrate Thoreau’s idea that under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison – was once again arrested for carrying a sign with a picture of a baby.
To make sure the 63-year-old grandmother doesn’t make a break for it and go sprinting off down Hillsdale Avenue, leaping over cars and knocking down innocent pedestrians, four brave police officers seize, subdue and handcuff her before bundling her into a waiting car.
What I find mind boggling is that our PM is a member of a fairly “conservative” denomination – the Missionary Alliance Church – and is a regurlar church goer – yet this does not influence or motivate him in his opinion of “life.”
If your faith does not inspire or guide your own decision-making thatn you are either an opportunist or a shell of a human being. If your relationship with God does not change your world view or incline it away from secularism then you’re missing the whole point.
But most of our politicians are gutless wimps (especially Liberals and NDPers). I will give the Tories some credit – more than half of the caucus (including 7 cabinet ministers) recently voted in support of motion to explore when life begins – Steve Woodworth’s motion.
It is not surprising that those who wanted abortion legalized were insistant that we keep talking about it until they got things changed to be their way, and now are just as insistant that no more talking be allowed.
The same thing seems to be happening with a number of other issues. The ACoC has virtually replaced the BCP with the BAS, and those who like the BAS are unwilling to talk about going back to the BCP. The ACoC has woman ordination, and how dare anyone even raise that issue now (I raised it at a meeting of our Parish Council and the reaction that I received from one person was that the issue had been decided and there was no need to talk about it any more). Presently the move is on to bless homosexual relationships and to call such relationships “marriage”.
May God have mercy on us all. Especially on those who murder children.
Most churches in the ACC still have BCP services, surely? Every single one I’ve attended does, anyway.
Hello Vincent
Many, perhaps most, ACoC Parishes continue to have a BCP service. However it is my understanding that these services are the so called “early” or “said” services, which typically have very low attendance. In the case of my own parish the “early” service does not have any music and usually has only about a dozen Parishioners in attendance. Meanwhile the “later” service includes hymns, there is a Sunday School program provided during this later service, and usually has an attendance of about 100. I might be wrong but I think that this is typical of most ACoC Parishes.
Amp,
I don’t get it. Why the obsession with the BCP?
We’ve had this conversation before but what is it about the BCP is synonymous with the Anglican values you hold dear? In fact, many of my most ardend conservative and evangelical friends in the ACC and ANiC agree that the BCP is antiquated in its language and not a useful liturgical vehicle for attracting newcomers.
Saying the BCP won’t return the church to the heady days of the 50’s and 60’s when Sunday schools were packed to the rafters.
And as much as I might personal appreciate the BCP service once in a while, if that’s all my church offered I’d be fighting with my kids each Sunday to get them to go to church.
Things change. Liturgical practice evolves. Move on!
Hello Eph,
I suppose that I could just as easily ask why some people are so obsessed with wanting to “bless” sexual perversions. I suspect that the answer would be “because they feel that it is right”. Similarly I feel that the BCP is “right”. Also, that the BAS is a deviation away from Anglican liturgy (and not a “continuance of an evolving liturgy”).
You may feel that the BCP does not appeal to young people today. However my ten year old daughter attends Church with me. She follows along the BCP service, pays attention and actively participates. She also gets upset if we miss going to Church. So my feelings is that if we tell young people that the BCP will not appeal to them, then they will be inclined to not receive it. If instead we show our young people the beauty and meaning that is within the BCP they will appreciate it.
Personally I am eagerly anticipating the release of the
ACNA Prayerbook. I saw an early version of the communion liturgy and I like it a lot.