ERLC Speaker Blasts Pro-Lifers For ‘Useless,’ ‘Un-Scriptural’ Opposition To Government Welfare
Kelly Rosati is a regular ERLC contributor, speaker, and National Association Of Evangelicals board member. A Focus On The Family alum and former member of the March For Life’s board of national directors, she’s a frequent speaker at pro-life events and would not be caught dead at an abortion abolitionist rally.
Speaking at NAE’s “Flourish” conference last year, Rosati calls pro-life Christians’ opposition to state-run welfare “useless,” “un-scriptural,” and “madness, ” explaining that “I just want to plant a flag and say: Let us be people that never advocate for abortion restrictions without an accompanying paid family leave support.”
Earlier in the talk, Rosati appears to imply you are guilty of “negligent killing” of children across the world if you aren’t donating to World Vision and they happen to die of starvation.
At the conclusion of her speech, Rosati claims that pro-aborts are sometimes telling the truth about women being denied treatment because of abortion bans (even though the laws on the books specifically exempt ectopic pregnancy, D+C on miscarriages, etc.).
Then I want to get into the public sphere. It’s wonderful, as a pregnancy center, as a church, it is essential to do what is being done. But all of those people will tell you, they’ll be the first to tell you, it is not enough. When a pregnant, scared, poor woman and girl is experiencing an unexpected pregnancy, what does she need? She needs what we all need. She needs a place to live. She needs healthcare. She needs transportation. And folks, this cannot all be done through the church.
So the old line from the 1980s of, ‘this is all just the church’s responsibility, not the government’s’, is so old school. It’s so binary. It’s so useless. It’s so unscriptural. I don’t know where we got it from, that acts like it’s the Trinity or something.It’s madness! There’s nothing in the Bible that says we can’t be people who support healthcare for those who don’t have it. Folks, people without healthcare suffer and die prematurely. Isn’t that a pro -life issue? Now, you don’t have to like the way I think it should be accomplished, and I don’t have to like the way you think it should be accomplished, and we can debate single payer and high -risk pools and all the rest, but the bottom line is, people being able to get that care is a core sanctity of life issue.
She continues:
So let me tell you the good news. In red states where they’re going to come up with very restrictive laws on abortion, where they’re going to provide legal protection for unborn children as they deserve, those states are the worst in also providing the necessary support for the moms and the babies. So for those of us in those states and with those influences and with those relationships, we can be the people who say ‘we are for protecting that child and supporting that mom and that baby.’
And so for me, I want to just plant a flag and say ‘let us be people that never advocate for abortion restrictions without an accompanying paid family leave support’. Again, we can tinker around the edges with how you want it to look and what it should look like, but folks, can’t we agree that we should be the people who don’t send a mama back to work from her baby two weeks after that baby’s been born? It’s barbaric. Let’s just be honest.
And so let’s be the people who champion that. Let’s have the world see that that is what the love of Jesus can look like. So paid family leave and healthcare, those are two cores for me. The NAE has been so great on advocating for child tax credit, and so these are some things where we can be people who stand and support unapologetically the right of that child to live and not be killed, and the people who lead the charge to say ‘we’re not gonna just be pro -life with our mouths. We are going to put our lives and our feet and everything else in it as well.’ That’s who we wanna be. Thank you.
h/t to WokePreacherTV for the video, title, and the intro.
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Unbiblical? Where exactly in Scripture is she getting the idea that it is biblical to force employers to pay for people to stay home from work to take care of their kids for a few months? Everything is voluntary in the New Testament. Perhaps that is why many Christians are opposed to her ideas. Her ideas are unbiblical.
If those who don’t provide for their own household are worse than a heathen, advocating that others outside that household be forced into filling that role, whether or not there is an actual need, may indeed make such an advocate worse than a heathen as well.
We personally give thousands to our local Pregnancy Care Center. Forcing others to pay for myself to have time off if we unexpectedly have a child is not found in the Bible, and she knows it.
Everything anyone wants to do politically cannot be called biblical just because they define other people going along with their plans as loving. Loving others is biblical, but that is not an open-ended command to impose on others according to our definitions . God has given us opportunity to help others as Church members… Not as a secular collective to force others to do what we define as love.
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While people do need to mind their own business about what pagans do (judge within the church- not those who are perishing) outside of legally identified crimes or things that impact your own families (such as indoctrination in public spheres) , there’s also nothing noble about robbing from your neighbors’ children (time taken to earn an honest income as well as the actual money stolen through taxes) to give to strangers who won’t work. Side note: it’s ironic to hear an obese woman talking about starvation. Seems hypocritical.
The word in 1 Cor 5:12-13 is krinó, which has a legal connotation and means to carry out the sentence of a judgement – to punish – to condemn – to impose the death penalty (the wages for all sin is death). Paul is saying it’s not His place to carry out such punishment on the world, as the ones within the church who were guilty of porneia (vs 1) were punished. It does not mean we are to “mind our own business” and never call out sin. The Apostles, including Paul, routinely preached and called out the pagans for their sins and called them to repentance. That’s what we’re supposed to do. Though we should be tactful.
Speaking of old lines from the ’80s, her comments remind me of the “seamless garment” argument used by Ron Sider and those of his ilk back then, e.g., to be totally pro-life means you have to support a nuclear freeze, etc.
Saying the church can’t do it is analogous to saying God can’t do it. Do what God says to do, and He will provide. Let Him worry about what His church is capable of doing. 1 Tim. 5, and similar scriptures, make clear how it is supposed to be done, what the qualifications are, and to whom we are obligated. We are most obligated to those around us, first our own households, then our relatives, then believers near us, and so on, only after all those obligations are met, extending outward when and if we can and should. We are obligated only when there is a legitimate need. Otherwise, as in the case of the family of widows, those who can do for themselves and their own family should be compelled to do so.
The Bible does plainly say to whom assistance, whether it be healthcare or other, is to be given, from whom, and how. And there is indeed scripture in the Bible, in 1 Tim. 5 and elsewhere, that says we should not be for any aid to those who don’t need it, have the wherewithal to do for themselves, for their household, for their relatives, for those in the local church, and/or fail to meet other Biblical qualifications.
That’s the Biblical model. And it’s the model whereby the least aid is lost to big expensive, burdensome bureaucracy, and the model that is least likely to be corrupted. There are churches on just about every street corner in this country. If it is done correctly, all who truly need help will receive it.
Just do things God’s way. He knows best.