Michigan Preacher Calls Whitmer’s Repeal Of 1931 Abortion Ban ‘The Good News Of Easter’
Reverend” Chris Roe, is the senior “minister” of Fountain Street Church Hellhole in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The historic church collective of blasphemy and inquity has a long history of liberalism and long ago gave up all pretenses of having an explicit Christian identity, with their FAQ and Values noting:
‘The church today is an independent non-profit organization, unaffiliated with any denomination. Many of our ministers have come from the Unitarian Universalist tradition. Members and congregants represent a wide variety of faiths….We value the spirit of inquiry which respects the religious, humanist, and spiritual teachings from many wisdom traditions. We value the direct experience of the mystery that moves us to engage in the never-ending search for universal truths that free the mind.”
During Roe’s Easter sermon, this living, breathing emblem of God’s judgement says he “got to witness the resurrection” by attending Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s recent signing ceremony to repeal Michigan’s 1931 abortion ban. In his speech, Good Friday and the Resurrection are merely archetypes for interpreting modern-day events as tragedies or victories, respectively. The repeal of Roe v. Wade was “yet another Good Friday in America,” as was the expulsion of Tennessee state Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson.
“About a year ago, this very time, as rumors swirled around all of us that the Supreme Court might in fact overturn reproductive rights and freedoms once enshrined under Roe v. Wade. And as the rumors turned into a verified leak and the verified leak turned into a fateful Friday in which the Supreme Court indeed for confirmed our greatest fears, it felt like yet another Good Friday in America...It felt like the Empire under which we live had pushed back against its people simply trying to experience the wholeness of our humanity. And it felt like all of us were in Mary Magdalene’s position, trepidatiously going to the tomb. Lingering by the empty tomb and uncertain of what we might find next.
… In our time, the people protested. The people petitioned. The people joined their ancestors of some 50-plus years ago before them, and the people rejoined in the fight to bring reproductive Justice back into our time in this great state of Michigan that you and I share and love. The resurrection was born out of a Good Friday brought on by the Supreme Court…They resisted and they persisted to get not only a proposal on the ballot that would enshrine reproductive rights but also an outcome in which we had record numbers of voters coming to actually enshrine those very rights. …
It was from that victory on the side of love and Justice that a new movement was born in the name of reproductive freedom. Only this time, it was a movement to see to it that lawmakers in Lansing would take away the archaic, draconian, and unjust laws from our state Constitution, still left unchecked and unaddressed from 1931. And this past Wednesday, I actually got to witness the resurrection. I had the honor and the privilege and the responsibility of representing this church in the room where Governor Whitmer signed the bill into law, repealing that unloving and unjust law, taking it out of our Constitution and making this a safer and more loving state…And that is the resurrection, and that is the good news of Easter. …
And each and every time there is a Good Friday in this world and in this nation, we must remember that the power of love, the promise of justice, the potential of liberation, and the potentiality of hope are not to be found in loud, clamoring fanfares or the abrasive proclamations of grandeur we so often are seeking, but in the form of a tiny seed handed to us by unknown gardeners in our midst, packed with holy possibility and sacred potential. And if you don’t believe me, keep your eyes on Nashville. Set your sights on what happens next for a once-oppressed people by the Empire, that are now invigorated by the seeds of hope that have already been planted within them.
h/t to @wokepreachertv for the title, transcript, and about half the introduction which I cribbed word for word
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They certainly have a strange idea of love and justice. Everyone else is expected to be concerned and sacrifice for them, as if they are the center of the universe, but they have so little concern, and such an aversion to sacrifice for a child they conceived, even if just for nine short months to give the child up for adoption, that they will murder the child instead.
I cannot comprehend such deranged, reprobate, self-centered thinking. Where’s the love and justice for the child? If they refuse to be loving and just to others, even to their own child, then what makes them think they deserve love and justice from others?
It’s no surprise that such reprobates would also attempt to justify mass murder of six people, including three children. Inside or outside of the womb, their deranged, nazified thinking is the same. Apparently mass murder is also an exercise of “love and justice”??
Servant of Satan.
Yep…rank God haters.