The Bully
by Kathy Brown on March 31st, 2010 | 0 comments
Perhaps you read about the teenager in Ballard, WA, who got an abortion without the knowledge and consent of her parent(s) through her school. Is this a shocking revelation? Not at all, as this article relates: "A King County Health official would not speak about any of the details surrounding the case, but did say that no laws were broken. In Washington State a girl of any age can get an abortion without her parent's being notified. It's one of 15 states without either parental consent or parental notification laws." In defense, the school reported that the mother had signed off on a medical permission slip. Apparently, giving a pregnancy test, flagging a taxi and ushering minors in for an abortion are activities considered as innocuous as dispensing an aspirin. At the root of this heartbreaking story is a worldview. Foundational Presupposition Chart It begins with an institutionalized idea that God is not allowed on the public school ground. His presence is not welcome. In His place is the typical bully who swaggers through the schoolyard. Having extracted the lunch money, the big kid with his gang threatens to shove aside anyone who lips off. Our tax supported educational system is composed of turf defenders, and their primary interest is maintaining jobs and promoting their ideology. (see previous article: NEA)
It stands to reason that extracting the unborn is allowed inside the philosophical neighborhood where human beings are created by evolutionary chance, not made in the image of God. If sex is a physical union designed merely for entertainment and personal pleasure, without purpose and meaning, there is justification for “eliminating” any inconvenience it produces. When families have no particular functional definition, then they do not necessarily have the primary responsibility for children and their training. Because morality taught in classrooms is relative, it makes sense that everything is acceptable, even discarding babies in the womb and neutering parents when they are an obstacle to progress. How have we become a nation that has surrendered parenting to the government? That’s something we’d better consider . . . and quickly. From Romans 1:20 - 21: "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened."
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