I didn't send this letter immediately because I wrote most of it in anger. I wasn't sure I would ever send it. Much of the time my anger is not exactly righteous anger. But now I believe is the time. Perhaps it is even past time.
It sounded like much good was done at the New Baptist Covenant convocation. Good! But it greatly angered me to read of these people calling for an end to injustice and oppression, yet many of them support the practice of committing, or at least the “right” to commit, injustice and oppression against the most helpless people of all – unborn babies. It is talked about as if it is just another issue or merely a difference of opinion. Arguments based on situational ethics are used to justify what is politely called abortion. Because such arguments can seem wise, many of the very people – children of God – who ought to know better are supporting what is plainly and simply murder! Is it too simple to understand? No argument can justify what is in reality the barbaric, gruesome and demonic practice of killing an innocent human being!
If I do not give to the poor, if I do not clothe the naked, if I do not feed the hungry and if I withhold justice from the oppressed, I am guilty of heinous sin! Whatever faith I might claim to have is dead. Likewise, if I murder or support the “right” to murder an innocent human being who has been created in the image of the almighty God, born or unborn, I am guilty of heinous sin!
Mark S. Davis, Monterey