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[b]Under the Domestic Guidelines, a terrorist enterprise is a group of at least two persons engaged in an enterprise for the purpose of "furthering political or social goals wholly or in part through activities that involve force or violence and a violation of federal criminal law."[/b]
An abortion protest that includes blocking an abortion clinic in violation of the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) of 1994 appears to fall within this definition.
Should we really target pro-life demonstrators under the new FBI Domestic Guidelines with the extreme measures under the USA Patriot Act aimed at Osama bin Laden and company? What might a future Attorney General Hillary Clinton do under the new guidelines?
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This actually raises an interesting issue. A conundrum, actually.
While I KNOW that abortion is murder, reprehensible, destructive to babies (they end up dead) destructive to mothers (they end up murderers) destructive to families, harmful to the fabric of this nation, more barbaric than cannibalism (at least with canniblaism you get a meal out of the deal) selfish, shortsighted (in short, as evil as evil can be) I see NOWHERE from Scripture that I am authorized to use force, intimidation or violence to stop it.
Compare that to the gladiator games that used Christians as sport in the Roman Colisseum. This was going on during Bible times.
Yet we see no indication from Scripture that they picketed the colisseum, or chained themselves to city hall doors, or staged a sit in or even sang Kumbya.
Moral change (and that is what abortion requires, a change in the heart morality) NEEDS to take place to end abortion. And that happens one-on-one, with a Christian showing care and compassion for an unwed mother, and preaching the truth to men and women who seek to get their sexual jollies, using abortion as a safety net to clean up their "mistakes." (After all, abortion is a necessity since man threw away God's laws regarding human sexuality)
So, what does all this mean??
Well, let's get it out of our heads that we have some sort of Scriturally- based right to chain ourselves to the aborion clinic doors. Or splash water with red food coloring on people going into abortion clinics.
Further, even if you DID feel God commanding you to chant and moan outside some abortion clinic, NOWHERE in Scripture is there any indication you would be exempt from even the most heinous and reprehensible laws man might make against your "Christian witness." Paul preached the Gospel KNOWING he'd prolly die for it. And he appealed to Roman legal channels SPECIFICALLY for the opportunity to preach the Gospel to the Roman hierarchy - NOT to escape the punitive measures the Roamsn were meting out.
This is NOT to say we can't petition our legislators to affect outcomes of legislations.
its to say that spiritual battles (like the one against abortion) are conducted as follows:
1. Not with a bullhorn, but with a Bible, in a manner where God can do a work on the heart.
2. IF men decide that you are to be prosecuted as a terrorist for that, then you did what you did KNOWING the consequences. Be a man. Face the music. God will settle all accounts in the end.