How dare Christian Churches do such things?
Our Church certainly tries to encourage young people to act and think responsibly. But we choose to try to do that within the bounds of what the Bible actually says! NOT what we might WANT it to say! There is a very troubling secondary effect of this. One would hope that the Members of such Churches would READ THEIR BIBLES to find the Scriptures that are behind any such strong positions. But if they do, they certainly cannot really find anything to support such severe attitudes against abortions and abortion clinics. Therefore, the obvious conclusion is that Members of Churches simply have absolute trust in their Ministers. That is wonderful in many ways. But if and when any Minister goes astray, the Congregation should really not just continue to totally trust him, but rather should have a healthy skepticism regarding free and open discussions. So the frightening aspect of this to me is where millions of Fundamentalist Conservative Christians never even consider questioning the slight