As minister Steve says, the abortion topic certainly evokes emotion. But your beliefs on this matter are not Christian, simply because the Bible says nothing about abortion. I know that God knew me before I was in my mother’s womb too — but that’s just as true whether a person begins at conception or if a person begins at birth (or at 13 years old, for that matter). I’ll say it again — murder is wrong, and killing babies is obviously wrong, but you can’t kill a person that doesn’t exist. Before viability, a fetus can’t think, can’t feel pain, has no memories, in short can’t do anything that a conscious person can do. Why is that? Because it is *not a person*. Forcing a woman to keep an unwanted pregnancy is immoral. And finally, we have a president who knows that supporting such intolerance and irrationality is immoral.

“The truth of God’s word is intolerant.” As a minister for the past 31 years, I respectfully disagree. My God is loving and forgiving. There is not a soul on this earth that hasn’t or won’t sin. We aren’t a perfect people. But scripture does say that we can be forgiven. And that we must forgive others as well. No where does it say we must be intolerant of others.

Abortion is a topic that certainly evokes emotion, but doesn’t have any basis in scripture. I do know when a fetus is able to survive on it’s own that it should be protected, nurtured, etc. Until then, it’s part of the women. And as a man, I’m not sure I am qualified to tell a women what to do in that situation. I can’t experience a pregnancy. And only God can judge others - and I don’t ever want to try.