By SJ Otto
It's hard to say how much news coverage Operation Save
America deserves for their week long
attempts at disrupting Wichita 's
only abortion clinic, Trust Women South Wind Women's Center with their so
called “Summer of Justice.” But The Wichita Eagle
has given them generous coverage.
They deserve some coverage for making waves in Wichita , but not out
right promotional information. The
Wichita Eagle has given out a lot of information for those who want to
attend these events, such as which churches supporters can go to and the times
to go to them. One part of the article I strongly disagree with is about a man
to came to these church and political leaders to get off drugs.
As someone who has written on the subject of drug abuse and
treatment I strongly oppose the idea of just joining up with one of these fundamentalist
religions as a way to get off of drug use. The
Wichita Eagle has such a story in their article under "Prayer vigil,
church rally kick off week of anti-abortion activism in Wichita ." In it a man has ended a 12 month
treatment program after doing only 10 months. Church leaders from Operation
Save America took him in, calling him a prodigal son, under the sub-heading
"Prodigal sons welcome." I'm sure the church leaders told him to just
turn to god and join their religion. Now he doesn't think he needs the
treatment so he can join their political cause and spend all of his time
obsessed with his new religion and that new religion will magically free him
from the drugs.
There are two problems with that. One is that he is just
trading one dangerous and reckless obsession for another. He won't be
healthier, because if he gets away from that religion and those people for any length
of time, he will relapse right away.[1] It
is not a cure, it is a substitution for the addiction he had. Second, he will
be taking up a destructive political path, selected by these leaders and base
on THEIR interpretation of the Bible. The path is not chosen out of a sincere
belief in the cause, but simply a way to stay off drugs. That kind of roping in
addicts is just not ethical.
Overall, Operation Save America is extremely anti-tolerant
of other people's religions.
One of their activist, Ante Pavkovic, a North Carolina pastor, was arrested some
time back for disrupting a Hindu prayer in the U.S. Senate. The group's members
have also burned Qurans and flags they deemed as representing homosexuals. From their own website:
The question has been asked,
“Have you burned the Quran? The answer is yes. But not the Quran
alone....
....In 2004, we added the
homosexual flag and the Quran as we saw the rise of Islam, the normalization of
homosexuality, and the continued shedding of innocent blood through abortion as
a sign of the judgment of Almighty God upon a nation who had ignored His
warnings. Today, September 11, we remember the horrific moment that
thousands of innocents died and blood ran through our streets. We also
need to remember that on that same day, more innocent blood was shed through
abortion than as a result of the terrorist attack in NYC. God hates the
shedding of innocent blood and it brings His judgment upon a nation.
It is hard to understand why this group is not treated as a
terrorist organization, as with certain Muslim groups. They are a fanatic
groups, they are intolerant of other people's religions and sometimes these groups
endorse violence against abortion doctors and clinic workers.
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