The morally uncomplicated

Someone shared this with me, from a Twitter feed, and I feel it is incredibly worthy of sharing again.
I wanted to be sure it was real, so I ferreted it out the original post on Facebook, from a June 18, 2018 entry. (Image posted below.)

Pastor David Barnhart of St. Junia United Methodist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, delivered a powerful sermon last June to the group of people who are supporting, and passing, forced birthing legislation. Not only there in Alabama, but across the nation.

Here is his sermon.

“The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. It’s almost as if, by being born, they have died to you. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who breathe.

Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.

There are no easy answers when it comes to abortion.
But we better start taking care of the unwanted people already HERE in the world, before we advocate bringing in scores more.

And that is my perhaps.