Atlanta pastor is out of step with Christian faith
Monday, December 21, 2020 |
Charlie Butts (OneNewsNow.com)
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A candidate for U.S. Senate is not backing down on his stance for abortion, so pastors are encouraging Georgians to vote for biblical values next month.
About three dozen African-American leaders and pastors were recently in Atlanta to speak out against statements by Raphael Warnock, the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church who is running as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate seat in Georgia.
Rev. Dean Nelson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation and executive director of Human Coalition Action, tells One News Now that Warnock supports abortion at any time during pregnancy.
For most Americans, the election season is over, but that doesnât mean theyâre not paying attention to what is going on in Georgia, where not one, but two Senate seats and the Senate majority will be decided in a January 5th runoff election. With so much at stake for the future of our nation, the work to advance biblical truth continues. With just weeks to go until these important runoff elections, Georgians will play a huge role in the fate of our nation. Will Georgians allow our nation to slide into Marxism, the continued undermining of the nuclear family, defunding of police, funding of abortion, and more? Or will Georgians stand up for the first principles that made America great: faith, family, and freedom?
(RNS) Since the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the Georgia pastor and Democratic senate candidate, described himself in a tweet on Dec. 9 as a “pro-choice pastor,” he has drawn fire from everyone from his Republican opponents in the state’s Jan. 5 runoff election, to a host of fellow Black ministers.
Doug Collins, a GOP congressman Warnock defeated in a primary on Nov. 3, declared at a recent rally, “There is no such thing as a pro-choice pastor. What you have is a lie from the bed of Hell.”
But the Rev. Cari Jackson, director of spiritual care and activism at the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, said there is no contradiction in supporting abortion rights while maintaining a Christian faith.
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A group of ministers in Georgia urged Democratic Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock to denounce abortion.
28 ministers from Georgia signed a letter of petition to Rev. Raphael Warnock, a senatorial candidate from the Democratic Party, CBN reported. The letter appealed to Warnock to denounce abortion as it goes beyond biblical principles.
The group of ministers reacted as Warnock claimed himself as a pro-choice pastor who believes that abortion is an act of human agency and freedom. He declared that he will always fight for reproductive justice.
In an interview, Rev. Dean Nelson, Executive Director at Human Coalition and one who spearheaded the letter doubts Warnock s abortion advocacy. He said you cannot talk about justice outside of the womb yet ignore justice inside the womb.