Prominent black pastor recants his statement on sitting out election but disagrees with Obama on abortion and gay marriage...whipped back in line

Rev. Dr. Emmett Burns of the Rising Sun Baptist Church in Baltimore, MD, told CNN that he doesn't plan to vote for Romney and will likely stay home as a result of the President's current position.

“People have come up to me, are saying they don’t support this, they don’t like this,” he said. “They are disappointed with the President, and they plan to stay home.”

 He was speaking on the issue of Obama coming out in support of gay marriage, a position he held back in 1996 but claimed he had to evolve to it just recently. Dr. Burns obviously was taken to the woodshed by "his base" because the next night when he appeared on Bill OReilly's Factor he had a different story.

 "Regarding yesterday’s remarks, Burns said, “I overspoke because I was so chagrined about the president.” He’s encouraging those in his church to vote, he said, adding, “I will support the president, and I don’t see a conflict here.” Burns said he can be true to religious beliefs and not support same-sex, but simultaneously support the president.

Onwards in the segment, Burns divulged that Romney sides with him on the issues of abortion and same-sex marriage, but nonetheless, he feels Obama is the better choice. A better candidate with a better program.
Circling back to the gay marriage issue, Burns decided said it’s a “slippery slope,” and if we get on it, marriage could continue to change: “Somebody will want to marry a sister, a brother.”

Interesting to me that this pastor is opposed to abortion but can be whipped back into line for daring to speak out on moral issues.  He admitted that on two key moral issues he does not agree with Obama but will now go and vote for him and encourage  his congregation to do the same. Hey, I thought pastors couldn't do that. Must be a double standard.


This is how Team Obama will treat the black population. They have to get in line despite their moral convictions.  He looked miserable on The Factor and seemed to almost be reading from a script.

Desert Dr. Burns. Stand up for the voiceless and do not vote for the most radical pro abortion president!!

Memphis Dem speaks on the issue of sex ed despite hostility from own party

Rep. John DeBerry (D) from Memphis boldly speaks the truth  on the floor of the TN House on a sex ed bill in TN and takes considerable  heat from his own party for it. He does a good job of further explaining on CNN who appear to mock his stand.  

Planned Parenthood, ACLU and liberal outlets such as NPR mock this bill and try to distort it saying that it bans hand holding, hugging and kissing and teachers will be fined for not stopping this.  Apparently CNN took their false talking points to heart and tried to run with them. PP wants  to be in schools to discuss outer course, anal sex and oral sex as ways to prevent pregnancies and then hand out condoms with their business cards.

Due to redistricting Rep. DeBerry (D) must run against incumbent Rep. Jeanne Richardson (D) in the primary. Richardson will have to move about two blocks into the district to run in District 90. Richardson is a strident and radical defender of abortion on demand. 


Well this bill passed and was signed by the Gov. despite attacks from the abortion industry and friends.
I contacted Rep. DeBerry and congratulated him on his courage.  I hope to see more courage like his in the legislature. 
 

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Science leads progressive law professor to new appreciation for life

Pro life reader Darlene sends an  interesting  CNN article  on  someone who describes themselves as a progressive  and  champions outlawing the death penalty  who is allowing the evidence to sway him on the issue of the dignity of human life in the womb.

No, he is not there all the way.... he still questions when life begins....check out the biology 101 textbook in any public high school and you will see that they have no doubt that human life begins at conception....but he at least acknowledges that the viability question is now getting down in weeks due to medical advances.  He is down to 24 weeks gestation as he has a neighbor whose 24 weeker is alive and well and with "eyes as clear as the TX sun."

"Right now, 10 states and the District of Columbia have no statutory time limit on when abortions can be performed, while five more states allow abortion up to the end of the second trimester (about 27 or 28 weeks). Yet, we know that by 28 weeks, the great majority of fetuses would survive birth. In other words, we allow the killing of viable infants in our country. This is a fact that progressives (including me) would rather not address."

As a pro choicer he is haunted by the continuing opinions that say Roe was wrongly decided but more so by the continuing scientific evidence showing the humanity of the preborn.  As a champion against the death penalty he acknowledges how DNA evidence has helped his cause, he then is honest enough to admit that the same argument helps the pro life cause.

"In the same way that the law had to change to accommodate advances in DNA evidence that can exonerate those on death row, state laws must change to accommodate that with modern medical care, a child born at 27 weeks is very likely not only going to live, but live a fairly normal life."

This is good for him to step outside his normal thought process fashioned by his ideology and suspicion of the other side to allow the facts to guide him. Many of us have come to the pro life side late in life by honestly examining the evidence.  For him it is looking at the face of a baby named Rees , the 24 weeker.

"He was, and is, a person, and that matters as much as Troy Davis and Hank Skinner."

Now he needs to continue to examine the evidence and recognize the humanity from conception and abandon his quality of life stance to sanctity of life.