Murder Committed by those with Little Respect for Life

The Fifth Commandment says, “Thou shall not kill.” Nevertheless, in 2016, there were 762 homicides in Chicago. But if God said, “Thou shall not kill,” then why?

Now we hear of a mentally handicapped young man being bound, gagged and tortured in Chicago.

Why?

Guns caused most of those deaths. Progressives, therefore, argue, “Ban all guns!”

But is the availability of guns the true cause of those killings? The torture? Do people who kill or torture their neighbors believe that destruction of human life is morally wrong? Punishable by God? Have they respect for life?

In 2015, Hillary Clinton told attendees of Women in the World Summit, “Far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth.”

Reproductive health care was Mrs. Clinton’s euphemism for abortion. She continued, “Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”

Fairly read, Mrs. Clinton was saying not just that the right to kill fetuses had to be protected. She was saying that resources (taxpayer funding) should be used to make abortions more readily available. Even more chilling, she said, the religious beliefs of Catholics and those who believe abortion to be a moral wrong must be changed.

Do you doubt her meaning? In the same video she added:

“I would like to see Planned Parenthood even get more funding. ... The unborn person doesn’t have Constitutional rights.” (lifenews.com/2016/08/08/hillary-clinton-make-christians-change-their-religious-views-to-support-abortion.)

Thanks to Wikileaks, we have learned that Mrs. Clinton’s remarks were not her unique personal views.

The Clinton team had already created two organizations designed to undermine the church’s teachings on the right of the fetus to life.

In 2012, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta received an email from Voices for Progress president Sandy Newman stating, “There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.”

Newman suggested the Clinton team should “plant the seeds of revolution.”

Podesta responded, “We created Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good to organize for a moment like this ... Likewise Catholics United. ”

Newman and Podesta were discussing two politically funded front organizations created to undermine church teaching against abortion -- to convince voters that there is no moral wrong in killing unborn children; to undermine church teachings demanding respect for life.

During the first 15 years of my judgeship, I regularly heard every type of case an Illinois judge could hear, including criminal and juvenile delinquency cases.

Overtime, I perceived a pattern. The sentencing reports prepared by our probation officers contained certain commonalities.

Most criminals/delinquents:

1. Read poorly, and did poorly in school;

2. Came from homes without a father; and

3. Lacked religious affiliation.

I would be shocked if those same commonalities weren’t present in the 762 Chicago homicides; in the torture. People don’t commit crimes for three main reasons:

-- It is against the law, and they might be imprisoned;

-- They have been taught by their families (immediate and extended) the golden rule, and that crime is wrong;

-- Their church teaches that Hell exists and that God severely punishes murderers.

Without family and church, what passes for “moral training” most likely comes from the schools or from the streets. But any street morality that approves selling drugs and using deadly force to defend one’s turf, is not likely to discourage gun violence.

In modern America, people have many reasons why they are not involved with organized religion. But in this political cycle, we have seen something new: the brain-trust of an American party covertly attempting to undermine church teachings protecting the right to life.

Destroy religion, the family, respect for life, and reject morality, and death follows; first, for the unborn, stripped of protections, both moral and legal.

Then, for the rest of us, who are left only with those legal protections accorded us by amoral men.


Posted: QCOline.com January 14, 2017
Copyright 2017, John Donald O'Shea