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Iowa pro-life legislators plan to throw another game

7/10/2023

Tom Hoefling

As a general rule, I'm not much of a fan of sports metaphors, because they always seem to fall short. However, once in awhile I will indulge in the practice. My apologies ahead of time.

For half a century, pro-life elected officials across the land have been running bad plays. Instead of simply invoking the self-evident humanity of the unborn child, and the Constitution's explicit requirement that they be equally-protected, in every state, they have come up with a dizzying array of immoral, unconstitutional, counter-productive regulatory gimmicks that are really nothing more than bad substitutes for doing the right thing.

Here in my home state, a decade ago, with the help of my friend Tom Shaw, we offered those pro-lifers a moral, constitutional, clean equal protection bill to end abortion in Iowa once and for all. They buried that bill before it could even be considered in committee, or have a single public hearing.

Five years ago, with full control of the Iowa legislature and the Governor's office, they passed an immoral, unconstitutional, counter-productive "heartbeat" bill, which was, predictably shot down immediately by the liberal state supreme court. Then, Dobbs came down from the US Supreme Court, and the pro-lifers thought that they would simply begin to enforce their "six week" "heartbeat" bill. Again, predictably, the state's highest court said "no."

And so, how do the pro-lifers who completely control the law-making process respond? Tomorrow, in special session, they're going to make the exact same immoral, unconstitutional, counter-productive, oath-breaking error that they've been making for fifty years. They're going to meet in special session and pass another awful "heartbeat" bill.

It's overtime. The other team is ahead. It's fourth down, and the ball is on the two yard line. The ball has been snapped. The pro-lifers are rolling out to the right, with not a single defender between them and the goal line and the win. And what are they determined to do? Spike the ball and lose again.

Except, this isn't a game. Thousands, nay millions, of innocent lives are on the line. The very basis of our form of government and our claim to liberty is at stake.

Why do they refuse to stop this holocaust when they have the governmental power to do so?

If it really was a sports team, you'd think they'd been paid off by the bookies, and they would be forever banned from playing the game. Seriously.

If you murder one, you murder them all

3/14/2023

Tom Hoefling

After the birth of her second child, in the wake of severe post partum depression, a young woman in her twenties was diagnosed with schizophrenia. She spent most the next decade in the mental institution, but two years into her commitment, on a short visit home, she and her husband conceived another child.

Since there was no way that she or her husband was going to be able to care for this child, should he have been aborted?

That woman was my mother. The child was me.

Seven years into her commitment, my mom was raped in the hospital and conceived child number four.

Should that child have been aborted?

That child was my half-sister.

If my sister and I had been aborted, our 25 amazing, wonderful children and grandchildren would not exist.

You see, when you exterminate a helpless child, for any reason at all, you exterminate posterity too.

I'll say it again: Abolitionists, abortion is NOT legal

2/28/2023

Tom Hoefling

Another in a long line of loving, but firm, notes, delivered over the course of many years, to those abolitionists who continue to wrongly claim that abortion is legal in America.

When you cede legality to abortion:

1. You are admitting that you don't really know much about what law is, and how our American constitutional form of republican self-government, premised in the moral law, is supposed to work, or,

2. You are lazy and don't care how badly your rhetorical sloppiness harms the cause of stopping the abortion holocaust in America, or,

3. You are, in reality, on the side of the abortionists and the regulationists in agreeing that the most heinous, lawless, illegal, illicit, illegitimate, and unconstitutional acts can be made "legal" just because you, or they, or a court, or a legislature, or somebody, says so.

I know this going to offend some, but it must be said:

If you insist on continuing to cede legality to abortion, even after you've been repeatedly, patiently, lovingly, corrected, (some of you repeatedly over the course of years,) you despise your brother. You are arrogant and unteachable. And, therefore, you are a danger to the cause and not to be trusted, no matter the number and volume of your proclamations, or how large the crowd of your followers.

"When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void."
-- Alexander Hamilton

"[A] law repugnant to the Constitution is void, and [...] courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument."
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, summation, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Here is the supreme law in America. Any statute or court opinion to the contrary is null and void. In other words, it must be considered not to exist:

"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law." – The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution

"No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." – The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Abortion is not legal anywhere in America. Never has been, and never can be. Get it through your thick skulls, Christians.

What, to the unborn American child, is your Fourth of July?

7/5/2022

Tom Hoefling

What does Dobbs v. Jackson, the recent Supreme Court opinion that supposedly “overturns Roe v. Wade” actually do? Not much. The decision is deeply un-American, and it allows the abortion holocaust to continue.

“The Court’s decision today does not outlaw abortion throughout the United States,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in his concurring opinion to Dobbs.

Just as in Roe, the court failed to do its primary duty, which is to acknowledge the self-evident humanity of the unborn child, and the child’s protection by the Fourteenth Amendment’s explicit requirement that the right to life of every innocent person be protected within every state.

The Fourteenth Amendment states, “No State shall…deprive any person of life…without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Contrary to those crystal-clear words, Dobbs leaves the legal disposition of our supreme God-given, individual right – the right to live – up to the arbitrary whims of a democratic majority, either in the Congress, or in the state legislatures.

“It is time to…return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives…. That is what the Constitution and the rule of law demand,” Justice Alito wrote in the majority opinion.

What could be more un-American or unconstitutional? What could stand more in opposition to the clear words of our Declaration of Independence than to make our supreme right subject to a vote?

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.”

Our God-given rights, starting with the right to life, precede and supersede all mere man-made laws and constitutions. Therefore, those rights are unalienable. This is the cornerstone principle of the American republic, the main principle we celebrate every July Fourth, for goodness’ sake.

But, contrary to those principles, if Dobbs is to be heeded, every single child conceived in this country is still in danger of being slaughtered, by the abortionists or the pharmacists, if his or her murder-minded mother is willing to order up some pills, or to simply change locations.

“[A]s I see it, some of the other abortion-related legal questions raised by today’s decision are not especially difficult as a constitutional matter,” Kavanaugh said in his concurring opinion. “For example, may a state bar a resident of that state from traveling to another state to obtain an abortion? In my view, the answer is no [sic] based on the constitutional right to interstate travel.”

You don’t need a law degree to understand that, in America, our most sacred, essential rights are supposed to be protected by our laws, not merely by travel inconvenience.

You may ask me, as others already have, “Aren’t you happy that Roe has been overturned?” To which I reply that I can’t be happy about a dangerous, destructive myth. According to the principles upon which our republic was founded, Roe v. Wade was a legal nullity from the moment the court promulgated it in 1973. It should have been ignored from the beginning. It was nothing but a vile vapor, an illicit court opinion, not a law, and certainly not in accord with the laws of nature and nature’s God, or our Constitution.

In Federalist 78, Alexander Hamilton said, “There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is exercised, is void.”

In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln declared: “The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court…in ordinary litigation between parties…the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having…resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.”

So, forget about Roe and Dobbs. They are, in legal reality, as irrelevant to the question of abortion as Dred Scott v. Sandford is to the question of slavery.

I’m submitting this article for publication on July 5th, 170 years to the day since the great Frederick Douglass, former slave, delivered his historic address in Rochester, NY, on July 5th, 1852, entitled “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?” Hence the title of this piece.

Douglass had freed himself some years before – voting with his feet – and had trained himself to become, almost certainly, the most eloquent spokesman for his brothers and sisters who were still being held fast in slavery.

You may notice that Douglass, by use of the word, “your,” didn’t at that time refer to America’s Independence Day as his own, being a black man in America, more than a decade before the end of slavery in the United States.

He said, “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy – a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.”

In this great speech, Douglass expresses his admiration for the founders of this American Republic. He eloquently speaks of his love for the principles they expressed in our great national charter, the Declaration of Independence: “The Fourth of July is the first great fact in your nation’s history – the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism… prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. …[T]he Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation’s destiny… The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.”

He declares the Constitution to be a fundamentally anti-slavery document, in part because of the fact that slavery (like abortion) violates all of its stated purposes.

And then, he righteously lambastes his generation, especially the Christians, for their gross hypocrisy: “I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me…This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”

Do you not see, my fellow American, my point? Blacks were not being protected, as they should have been, and today, our generation is guilty in just the same way when it comes to the protection of innocent unborn children. Except, perhaps, our guilt is even greater in scope, with more than seventy million innocents dead.

“What have I, or those I represent (the enslaved), to do with your national independence?” Douglass asked. “Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?”

Ask yourself, in our day, are the great principles of natural justice embodied in the Declaration of Independence being extended to our posterity? The obvious answer, even in the wake of Dobbs, is NO. Absolutely not. Again, any child conceived in America today can still be murdered under the color of “law.”

This Independence Day, millions of “pro-life” Americans celebrated what they thought was a great victory for life, when, in fact, they should be mourning continued abject defeat.

They think they have “overturned Roe” with little or no understanding of what that means or doesn’t mean.

By far the greatest threat to the existence of our republic has always come from those who would dehumanize some portion of humanity, and thereby strip them of their rights. The ultimate destruction of many great nations throughout history can be traced to the injustices brought about by their abject failure to recognize and respect the God-given rights of all. If all are not equal before the law, no one’s rights are secure.

No matter what the Supreme Court says, there can be no moral or constitutional neutrality when it comes to genocide.

Fundamentally, Roe and Dobbs are the same

6/28/2022

Location, Location, Location?

6/27/2022

More of Justice Alito's Gross Hypocrisy in Dobbs v. Jackson
Tom Hoefling
June 27, 2022

Our natural rights adhere to us because of who and what we are, not because of our location. We are, each of us, made in the image and likeness of God. (See Genesis 1:26). Our value derives from that fact, from that reality, not from where we might happen to be today.

When God said, "You shall not murder," He meant that you shall not murder anyone, obviously. When He said, "You shall not steal," He meant that you shall not steal from anyone, obviously. These are the simple moral premises of decent, just human government. I have a right, granted by God, not to be murdered or stolen from. And you have an equal right not to be murdered or stolen from. It's simple. This is American Civics 101.

He never said, "You shall not murder or steal, unless your victim is over there rather than over here." No. Everyone has an intrinsic God-given, unalienable right to not be murdered or stolen from, no matter where they are. These rights precede and supersede all manmade laws and constitutions. They apply to all human beings, all persons, everywhere, in all ages. We are ALL supposed to be protected by our laws, not by our location.

These natural law principles were the very foundation stones of the American republic.

In Dobbs v. Jackson, "Justice" Samuel Alito rightly points out the arbitrary nature of Roe v. Wade, and how foolish it was for the Blackmun court to determine whether a child would be protected based on their location in relation to a hospital. But, then, hypocritically, he and his colleagues ruled that innocent babies would henceforth be protected based SOLELY on their location, i.e., what state they happen to be in today. And, very poor protection that is, in light of the fact that any murder-minded mother can still simply change her location in order to slaughter her offspring, at any time, under the color of "law."

The phrase "overturning Roe" is utterly meaningless when any and all unborn children can still be murdered in our country, as long as they are murdered in the government-approved place.

It's not supposed to be that way in America. Our republic was founded and established on the principle that government - all government, at all levels - exists to provide equal protection for the God-given, unalienable, individual right to life.

Our Constitution's ultimate stated purpose is "to secure the Blessings of Liberty to our Posterity."

And that Constitution, which every officer of government in this country is required to swear an oath to support and defend, absolutely requires equal protection under the law for every innocent person, in every state. It's not optional. It's not "up to the states to decide." Please, America, stop pretending that it is. And, stop doing the wicked things that these foolish, hypocritical judges tell you to do.

Obey, America, or be destroyed

2/14/2022

By Tom Hoefling

Abortion costs a helpless, defenseless, innocent little boy or girl their life. But it is also a dagger in the heart of American republican, constitutional self-government in liberty.

Abortion utterly destroys the natural law moral principles spelled out in our national charter, the Declaration of Independence. It represents the total denial of our Creator, of the concept of God-ordained equality and God-given unalienable rights, and of the very raison d'etre of human government, which is to secure that equality and those rights to every person.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are CREATED EQUAL, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men."

Abortion destroys every stated principle of our Constitution. Our national Union is attacked by abortion at the most fundamental level: the natural bond between the mother and her child, which is the essential first building block of our entire civilization and society. Instead of establishing Justice, abortion establishes the worst kind of injustice. What greater wrong can be committed in the physical sense against the individual person than that you murder them? How can you have any sort of true domestic Tranquility, i.e. peace at home, when you have entered into the very heart of that home and annihilated the children? Our society is supposed to assure the common Defense, or the defense of all. How can anybody consider themselves to be safe when certain disfavored classes of human beings are declared to be the "legal" prey of hired mass murderers? How can you claim to be defending the Welfare of all, when you are sacrificing the most innocent and helpless among us on the altar of ease and convenience? How can a nation possibly claim to be securing the Blessings of Liberty to a Posterity that they are slaughtering by the tens of millions?

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

The Democrats and the Republicans both claim to stand for the Constitution. When elected, they all swear the Article VI oath, as they are required to do, to support and defend that Constitution. How many of them are actually doing it? None. Not as long as a single innocent child is being destroyed under the color of "law" in this country.

"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law."

"No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Here is the stark truth: unless and until equal protection is restored to the little children, in compliance with the explicit, imperative requirements of our Constitution, all hope is gone for this country's survival. Union, Justice, Tranquility, our national security, the good of the entire nation, Posterity itself, is gone, trampled into the dust because the people were too immoral, and too stupid to understand what it was that they inherited from their much wiser forefathers.

Obey the Lord, and live. Disobey the Lord, and keep destroying the innocents He made in His image, and you will be destroyed. It's as certain as the sun rising.

That's your choice, America.

"You shall not murder."

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever."

-- Thomas Jefferson

The "Pro-Life" Flat Store

11/30/2021

by Tom Hoefling

It's time for American Christians to stop playing a rigged game that is costing tens of millions of innocents their lives.

A very long time ago, I was a fifteen year old street kid from a very broken family who ended up working on the carnival for ten years. I'll have to tell you all some stories some time. I've got some good ones.

But one story will have to do for today.

In the carnival game business back in the Seventies there were still a few that were flat out rigged. Carnies called them "flat stores." The sort of thing that had a hidden kicker to make the ball pop back out of a wooden "bucket" every single time the operator wanted it to.

That's what the abortion business in America is. A bloody flat store. On the surface, it looks like there are "two sides" fighting against each other, the pro-abortionists and the pro-lifers. But, it's a complete scam. Even when what I call "Pro-life, Inc." "wins," it loses. Every single time. They are in practice nothing but shills for the abortionists. And that's true because the statutes they pass through our legislatures, long before they ever reach a court, have already surrendered the only real moral, constitutional, and legal argument against permitting the mass murder of innocent babies. And these lawless statutes that they pass are all done within the framework of the fallacy of judicial supremacy. So, not only are they certain to lose every time, they're double certain to lose every time. Even if the operators let them "win" once in awhile for effect, at best, all they end up with is come cheap, useless trinket.

Tomorrow, the "Supreme" Court will hear oral arguments in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, which involves Mississippi's "15-week" "pro-life" "law."

Emblematic of fifty years of utter failure, with this case the "pro-life" side, as usual, walks into court having already surrendered the only real moral, constitutional, and legal argument against abortion, which is constitutionally-required equal protection under the law for the supreme God-given, unalienable individual right. And they are still completely bound by the continued destructive misimpression that the court has sufficient governmental authority to continue to authorize mass murder. It's so predictable as to be a farce.

This lawless "law," which in effect ends with "and then you can murder the baby," is not going to change anything, inside or outside of the courts. That's true because most American Christians remain either ignorant or morally compromised when it comes to abortion. And their Republican/National Right to Life political "leaders" like it that way. It's how they make their money and win their votes from ignorant or morally-compromised Christians.

There is once again a lot of "pro-life" and media hype going around about this case. Both sides need to raise money, I guess. But this Mississippi law is a bad joke. It does nothing good. It should not be praised by the church. It's a bad tree which cannot possibly produce good fruit. All an abortionist has to do if he wants to keep killing, and making mountains of cash, is lie on some paperwork, or not even file. He, a mass murderer by profession, is given, by "pro-life" (Christian?) statute, the role of judge, jury, and executioner, without due process for the victim. There is no due process of any sort before the execution. This "law" denies that process to the innocent child. If it stands, with the imprimatur of the court, that serves to do nothing but continue the demise of the principles of due process and equal protection under the law for the supreme God-given rights of all people in this country.

Please, just stop it. Abolish abortion now, in spite of the courts. The Christians in this country have the political power to do so, if they will simply stop playing an obviously rigged game and thereby supporting evil. Demand that your executive officers and legislators provide equal protection for all persons, as God and our Constitution require.

The Greatest Threat to the Existence of our Republic

11/19/2021

Tom Hoefling
Originally published on November 19, 2016

We are all CREATED equal by God at the moment of our conception. This is self-evident. At that precise moment of time God has declared His divine intent, which is to bring a unique individual human person, made in His image and likeness, into physical existence. From that moment onward, until natural death, His command, "you shall not murder," fully applies.

Our national creed, as expressed so well in our national charter, the instrument that brought this nation into existence, perfectly conforms to this understanding:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are CREATED equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."

The U.S. Constitution, the supreme law of our land, in its wording, has also always fully conformed to God's stated intent in this matter. In that great document's original statement of purpose, it was made crystal clear that all were to be protected in their God-given rights, including those persons who were not yet born, or even as yet conceived, i.e. posterity.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union (that is the union of ALL), establish Justice (that is justice for ALL), insure domestic Tranquility (that is peace and tranquility for ALL), provide for the common defense (that is the defense of ALL), promote the general Welfare (that is the welfare or well-being of ALL), and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves (that is ALL of us who are now living) and our Posterity (that is ALL who are yet unborn or unconceived), do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

The first round of amendments to the Constitution, which we call the Bill of Rights, in its wording conformed fully to God's will and command as well, specifically in the Fifth Amendment, in which it was made explicit that no innocent person could - at least legally, legitimately - be stripped of their God-given, unalienable right to live.

"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law."

In the wake of the terrible civil war which nearly tore our national union apart - a war that was fought, whether everybody wants to face that fact or not, over the intrinsic rights of persons, and the intrinsic obligations of states to respect the intrinsic rights of all persons - the Fourteenth Amendment was debated, passed, and ratified. This amendment not only reiterated the protection for every person which was already required by the Fifth Amendment, it also made quite explicit the absolute obligation each of the states has to provide equal protection for the right to life of every human person within their jurisdictional bounds.

"No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

All fifty of our state constitutions not only acknowledge God as the Provider of all of the blessings of our liberty, they recognize the unalienable rights of all persons, and require equal protection for those rights, beginning with the right to live.

My state's constitution:

"WE THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF IOWA, grateful to the Supreme Being for the blessings hitherto enjoyed, and feeling our dependence on Him for a continuation of those blessings, do ordain and establish a free and independent government, by the name of the State of Iowa...All men are, by nature, free and equal, and have certain inalienable rights - among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness."

By far the greatest threat to the existence of our republic came from those who would dehumanize, depersonify, some portion of humanity, and strip them of all of their rights. The ultimate destruction and demise of many great nations throughout history can be traced to the injustices brought about by the abject failure to recognize and respect the God-given rights of all.

The dehumanization, the depersonification, of any portion of humanity can only lead, inexorably, to hell on earth.

If all are not equal before the law, the rights of none are any longer secure.
Do you see your precious rights as an American slipping away, one by one?

Do you see your country slowly but steadily being destroyed around you?
You would have to be willfully blind not to see it.

Do you care enough about your children and grandchildren, your posterity, to do what it takes to save this great republic for them, as our forebears fought to save it for us?

Then you must do whatever it takes to reestablish respect, in principle and in practice, for the supreme right of the unborn child, the God-given, intrinsic, unalienable right to live.

Before it is too late.

Stop saying that abortion is legal

10/6/2021

Tom Hoefling

I'm gobsmacked every time I see abolitionists continue to use language that cedes legality to abortion. They simply don't listen, no matter how many times it is patiently explained to them that this is a destructive fallacy, one that digs a deep hole for our side that cannot be overcome as long as it is continued.

Abortion violates the law of God. It violates the laws of nature that God ordained. It violates every stated purpose, and the explicit equal protection requirements, of the supreme law of our land. It is not, and cannot, be legal in America.

Laws or court opinions that violate the laws of nature and/or the Constitution are, by every principle this free republic was founded upon, absolutely null and void. That means that, legally, we are to act as if they do NOT exist.

Please, please, please, get this vital, fundamental lesson through your head, because as long as you refuse to do so, you are, whether you know it or not, or whether you will admit it or not, continuing to give (im)moral, legal, and political strength to those who are perpetrating this bloody holocaust.

"When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void."

-- Alexander Hamilton

"[A] law repugnant to the Constitution is void, and [...] courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument."

-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Without you they have no voice in this world

1/2/2021

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Justice from the magistrate or judgement from heaven

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Equality is essential

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Abortion is an act against God

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No matter how you organize yourselves, don't act like a goat

9/17/2020

Tom Hoefling

Some abolitionists choose to form themselves into groups and/or organizations that are, in their minds, largely exclusive to their theological standpoint. They look at the task of abolishing abortion as if they were building a church or a Christian denomination. And you know what? That's perfectly fine. That's their right. If I was trying to start a church, or run a parachurch organization, I'd do it that way too. I certainly wouldn't want to include people who disagree with my theology, or the theology of my coreligionists. That would be ridiculous.

Many of us, on the other hand, a dozen years ago--thinking that stopping the abortion holocaust is a civic matter, one that is a life-and-death question for the entire country, for the entire body of the people, not just for those with perfect theology--decided that we want the help of any American citizen/Judeo-Christian theist who truly wants abortion ended immediately. So, we decided to start a non-sectarian political party, one that, even though it doesn't divide politically along denominational lines, is absolutely committed, from the get-go, to the core American moral and constitutional principles that without exception argue strongly and conclusively against abortion.

Even if you view Catholics, or Latter-day Saints, or Jews, as Samaritans, (or, as one "five tenet abolitionist" called them yesterday, "pagans") ask yourself the question:

If Samaritans are committed to helping the poor robbery victim lying bleeding in the ditch, or to stopping the mass murder of tens of millions more innocent children, shouldn't you work with them to bind up the wounds and bring healing to those who are being violently attacked? Can you justify to the Lord strutting on by like the priests and the Levites in Luke 10, who were busy going to do God's work, but stuck their noses up at people who were truly serving, and showing mercy, and being a true neighbor to their fellow human beings, even though they didn't have the right religious label attached to them?

I know that most abolitionists understand these concepts, because they are already working with their fellow citizens, without regard to religious designations, to try to pass abolition legislation in the several states.

But, in 2020, we are watching some few "five-tenet abolitionists," folks who have advocated for abolition as being solely a gospel project, inexplicably compromise those tenets for the pro-abortion incumbent Donald Trump. This simply can't pass without comment. Thousands more babies are being slaughtered in America TODAY. We don't have time for any more silly little Utilitarian political games. We have to convince the people to stop supporting wicked candidates, or we're never going to get anywhere.

If you won't even live up to your own standards, who is going to listen to you? Who is going to believe your professions of faith when you keep supporting politicians who think it's okay to murder innocent children? Who is going to demand abolition if you don't demand abolition, in actual practice? Who cares how you've organized yourself if you're being morally compromised?

These are fair questions.

Because, you know what? In the end there are only two labels that are really going to matter: "sheep" and "goats."

Go read Matthew 25:31-46. It's all right there.

Do unto these babies as you would do unto the Lord Himself. No exceptions, for any politician, or for any reason.

Without that kind of steel in the backbone of abolitionism, it is going to come to the same bad end as pro-life-ism. It's inevitable.

Tom Hoefling and Scott Mahurin to debate abortion abolition vs. regulation - Sat. March 30, 2019, 2 pm Central time - LIVE STREAM

3/26/2019

Tom Hoefling

Please hold me up in prayer this week as I prepare for Saturday's abolition vs. regulation debate with Scott Mahurin.

If you're near Des Moines, come join us at 2 pm at 315 SW 14th St, Des Moines, IA 50309-4311.

If you're not able to come, the live stream will be on the Des Moines Patriots for Christ page, starting at 2 pm Central time.

You have to go hit like on their page here if you want to see the event live:

https://www.facebook.com/PatriotsForChristDSM/

The event page on Facebook is here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/418818738660911/

'Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.'

Tom Hoefling on Government:

"Just as 'good fences make for good neighbors,' good government is mainly about knowing where the legitimate boundaries are, and having the courage to defend those borders forcefully. This is true in terms of the defense of our territory, our security, and our national sovereignty, but it also applies to the sworn duty of all of those in government to equally protect the God-given, unalienable rights of each individual person, from their creation onward, their sacred obligation to stay well within the enumerated powers of our constitutions, and of the role legitimate government must play in balancing the competing rights and interests of the people, in order to establish justice."