This appeared on the 28th in the St. Louis Post. MH
Ignored again
On Monday, hundreds of thousands of people from all over the country , including many from the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod , gathered in Washington, D.C., to stand up for unborn children and the sanctity of life during the 38th annual March For Life.
Sadly, many people are unaware that this event even occurred. The march, despite the impressive crowd it drew, largely was ignored by many in the mainstream media. In the years since the U.S. Supreme Court tragically legalized abortion through its Roe v. Wade decision, the message that human life is sacred and valued has become almost background noise for many. How can that be? How can we ignore the fact that an estimated 52 million babies have been aborted since 1973?
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, with its 6,200 congregations across the country, has a vast array of Lutheran agencies and partners that care for the neediest, providing adoption and foster care, senior care, care for the developmentally disabled, etc., both domestically and internationally. We shall continue this ministry of mercy, along with Christians the world over, even as we weep and pray by the tomb of the American conscience, until it rises again.
The Rev. Matthew C. Harrison • Kirkwood President, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
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The reason it is ignored is because journalists largely have a leftist political axe to grind. Now if the march were to give them something to spin so that pro-life people look bad then they would report on it. The march is apparently too civil to get coverage.
This is very curious, Matt. Seems like you have the same editors in the States as we do here in Australia. We have an annual event here in Melbourne that draws a reasonable crowd of about a thousand from all walks of life. If it were any other kind of demonstration, it would at least get a mention on the news, but to date no one has ever covered it in either the papers or the radio or the TV news. cf. http://scecclesia.com/?p=2356
I am curious how many in the LCMS ignore January 22nd every year? I am curious to know how many of our LCMS congregations and pastors have a service to commemorate these 52 million + martyrs? How many of our congregations promote the gift of life? Are we like the world that we only give attention to this great tragedy but once a year?
We all need to repent. Lord, have mercy.
Pastor Harrison,
How encouraging to see such an editoral written by our own President of Synod!
May Almighty God continue to bless you richly as you shepherd His dear people in the US.
Blessings in Christ our Life,
M
martyrs?
Lamentable, but not a surprise. The root word of "news" is "new." The annual March for Life is not "new." Therefore it is not "news."
If you want it covered by the media,then it needs to be different than the 25+ marches for life in the past.
In standing up for the sanctity of life, pro-life groups need to denounce abortion for what it is - a murderous crime against humanity that gives aid and comfort to the enemy.
If pro-life groups do not advocate, support, and demand Nuremburg-style trials and convictions against the tens of thousands of pro-abortion political, judicial, military, and business leaders in our nation who support, fund, and conduct abortions, they obliterate their own claim to being opposed to murder-by-abortion, and reduce their pro-life preference to an equivalent choice of which colored socks to put on. If abortion is wrong because it is treasonous murder on a genocidal scale, rather than wearing the wrong color of socks, then a pro-life position must truly be a decision and a demand for justice.
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