Justin Darr, April 19, 2005

"Slippery Slope" reasoning is the belief that small, seemingly harmless, decisions can set precedents for much larger, radical, and unpopular decisions to come. Liberals hate "slippery slope" debates, largely because they have to acknowledge that leveraging small "slippery slope" issues through the activist judiciary system is their only real hope of cramming the radical heart of their agenda down America’s throat. For example, what started as not having children pray in public schools has now led to the systematic banning of all Christian values from the public education system. Like building a wall of intolerance and oppression toward traditional values, liberals have over the years added one brick upon another, one small decision upon another with which we might not agree but seems fair at the time, until today where our traditional faith and values are truly at risk.

Christianity has been the main stumbling block to the complete success of the liberal agenda. Christians, and their nasty habit of voting all the time, has put the left on notice that unless they so something their ideals of creating a Godless, Socialist Utopia is doomed to failure.

However, things are now beginning to change. In recent months, the main assault on Christian values has not come from the liberal media or radical atheist groups, but from within Christian denominations themselves. For example, the Episcopalian Church has just elected Christianity’s first openly homosexual Bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. In typical fashion, the left’s celebrated attempts to promote "tolerance" has led to the trampling of the free speech rights of others. However, despite the threats of Episcopalian leaders to defrock the ministers of six Connecticut ministers for not supporting the New Hampshire Bishop, dissent is growing among the Episcopalian congregation and may lead to a schism in the Church. Now before some of you liberals out there go into a paroxysm of screaming "homophobe" until you are hoarse, you must understand that much of the opposition toward a gay Bishop is not necessarily the fact that he is a homosexual, but for the host of other liberal baggage that a gay Bishop brings with him.

Chief among these is that Bishop Robinson not only disagrees with the Christian tradition toward homosexuality, but abortion as well. While addressing the fifth annual "prayer breakfast" of Planned Parenthood, Bishop Robinson stated, "In this last election we see what the ultimate divorce from communities of faith will do to us... Our defense against religious people has to be a religious defense... We must use people of faith to counter the faith based arguments against us." In other words, Planned Parenthood should target "people of faith" to change their opinions on abortion through a dedicated program of utilizing leftist Christians to twist the Word of God to suit their ends.

Regardless of what your views on abortion are, there is no way you can look at the New and Old Testaments and claim that abortion is a good or moral thing. The strongest argument in favor of a woman’s right to choose is not that the Judeo/Christian heritage in some way is indifferent or supportive to the practice, but that people in America have the right to do things that others might consider immoral, and that we do not have the right to legislate our morality over them. Granted, Jesus never said the word "abortion," however, neither did he say "genocide," "corporate embezzlement," nor "taking pictures of your neighbor through their windows at night," but these are all considered immoral practices. However, this does not stop many other Christian ministers from claiming that Jesus would have added "blessed are the abortionists, they shall fill the Kingdom of God with the souls of the unborn" to the "Sermon on the Mount" if he had not been up against time restraints.

The Reverend Mark Bigelow stated in a letter to "The O’Reilly Factor," "I am careful not to presume what Jesus would say if he were alive today... But one thing I know from the Bible is that Jesus was not against women having a choice in continuing a pregnancy." Now just where did he find that nonsense? To even claim that Jesus would not have seen abortion for what it is, an abomination against life and God, is completely contrary to the entire Word and spirit of the Gospels.

But many radical Christians say such things every day, and their goal is to subvert your thinking into agreeing with them by emphasizing the aspects of Christian tradition that suit their ends. They will never say "abortion is a moral Christian belief," but they will say, "who are we to judge," or "Jesus forgave sinners, why cannot you?" All are true and consistent with the Christian beliefs, but with each small act of "tolerance", the slippery slope gets just a bit steeper until one day when you too may not be able to claim that Jesus did not condone the slaughter of the unborn.

The most telling aspect of the beliefs at the radical Christian left is best exemplified by the very words they use. Look at the quotes above. Bishop Robinson refers to the members of Planned Parenthood as "us," and speaks of "our defense against religious people." The Reverend Bigelow says, "If Jesus... were alive today." All these statements indicate people who are outside and at odds with the Christian Community. Bishop Robinson sounds like a member of Planned Parenthood rather than the "religious people" he supposedly represents, and last time I checked most Christians believe that Christ is alive today due to that little "Resurrection" thingy we talk about once in a while. Dig a but further and you will see that many of these alleged Christians deny the Divinity of Christ, the belief in the afterlife, and the doctrine of Salvation through Jesus. To them Jesus is just a "good guy," and his teachings "general guidelines" never to be taken literally in order to achieve a nebulous end that may or may not be worthwhile. These people are not true Christians and you must resolve yourself to stand firm in your faith against them, and never allow yourself to believe what is right is wrong.

Copyright © 2005 Justin Darr