PRO-LIFE PLEDGE AT COLORADO RIGHT TO LIFE'S
MARCH FOR LIFE January 20, 2007 West steps State Capitol
40 Years, 50 Million Dead
One Commitment
On the Rule of Law regarding the intentional killing of innocent people,
including by abortion, suicide, and euthanasia,
I commit myself to upholding without exception God’s enduring command, “Thou Shall Not Murder.”
My commitment to God’s prohibition of murder means that:
* I will never approve of any judicial ruling which in any way violates Do Not Murder.
* I will withhold backing from any judge who issues or defends rulings that violate Do Not Murder.
* I will oppose any law which violates Do Not Murder by allowing the intentional killing of any innocent.
* I will never support any law that regulates the killing of the innocent.
* I will never support any law that effectively ends, “and then you can kill the innocent.”
* I will agree that, “Do not kill the innocent” (Exodus 23:7) applies even to the baby fathered by a criminal.
* I will recognize that it is morally acceptable to let an irreversibly dying person die.
* I will teach others that it is wrong to starve people to death, including the elderly, infirm, disabled, and infants.
* I will never support any attempt to “do evil that good may come of it” (Romans 3:8).
* I will oppose any man-made process where it requires compromise on “You shall not murder” (Rom. 13:9).
* I will oppose any philosophy that elevates man’s law above God’s enduring command, “Thou Shall Not Murder.”
* I will never allow political goals to move me to compromise on Do Not Murder.
* I will never in any way legitimize the intentional killing of innocent people, from fertilization to natural death.
* I will recognize that any pro-life effort that compromises on Do Not Murder is a false hope.
* I will teach others that whenever these two authorities conflict, “we must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29).
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City: _________________________________State: _______________Phone:_______________________
Background: Forty years and fifty-million victims since Colorado became the first state to legalize the killing of the innocent, this 40/50/1 Commitment comes from Colorado Right to Life, in an effort to correct our own failure. Our state has failed America. And our pro-life community has failed God, because for political reasons we have so often compromised on Thou Shall Not Murder that today we have difficulty discerning right from wrong. Many in America’s pro-life community have become legal positivists, defending our officials, laws, and rulings that intentionally kill the innocent, as long as they comply with our legal process. Sixty years ago at Nuremberg, America prosecuted German judges who had personally opposed the holocaust, but nevertheless upheld and complied with laws to intentionally kill the innocent; today, our Christian pro-life community holds up such officials as the hope and heroes of the pro-life movement, demonstrating our own slide into moral relativism. We have lost the moral high ground, and now watch the suicide, euthanasia and even child euthanasia movements gain ground. We must never again become accessories in the regulation of killing the innocent in the false hope that we thereby move toward victory. When those who fear God will compromise on murder for political gain, the world becomes increasingly dangerous for children and the vulnerable.
Please register your commitment online, by mail, or by phone at the contact information below and see our website for more information and for a list of signatories including pro-life organizations and leaders, and the number of private individuals, listed by city and state, who have signed this pledge.
ColoradoRightToLife.org _ 2050 S Oneida St. #116_ Denver CO 80224
303.753.9394_ 303.753.9341(fax)
www.coloradorighttolife.org
Thank you Lesforlife for posting that pro-life pledge! This Indiana "pro-life" law is an example of dozens on the books today that WILL keep abortion LEGAL after Roe v. Wade is overturned:
IC Title 16, Section 34, Chapter 2.
Requirements for Performance of Abortion...
1. (a) Abortion shall in all instances be a criminal act, except... (1) During the first trimester of pregnancy for reasons based upon the professional, medical judgment of the pregnant woman's physician if: (A) the abortion is performed by the physician; (B) the woman submitting to the abortion has filed her consent with her physician."
Etc., etc., etc., around the nation dozens of times over. If pro-life leaders would have had the clear understanding and commitment that Colorado Right to Life is now promoting, then America would not be in the situation we are now, with dozens of "pro-life" laws on the books that will keep abortion legal AFTER the Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade.
Pro-life constitutional law professor Dr. Charles Rice of Notre Dame correctly warns that there is NO indication that the U.S. Supreme Court justices will defend the personhood of the unborn child, but rather, when they overturn Roe v. Wade they will give the states the authority to regulate abortion, and when that happens, dozens of "pro-life" laws which conclude, "and then you can kill the baby," like this Indiana law, will keep abortion legal, perhaps for decades.
Thank you lesforlife and Colorado Right to Life!
Pastor Bob Enyart
Denver Bible Church & KGOV.com
This household, of five voting-age people, pledges.
It's a sad commentary on our society and culture that this commitment has now become radical even in the current pro life movement. But that is the nature of righteousness; the more decadent a society and its leaders becomes, the more radical true righteousness seems.
Our Lord's righteousness is obvious in this pledge, and it exposes the compromised-righteousness of nearly all of our "pro life" leaders as filthy rags.
Thank you for leading the charge Colorado RTL. It's time for our other pro-life organizations to wake up and move forward for the LORD and the unborn - without compromise!
My wife and I (and our first unborn child) are praying for you.