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The Woke ProLifers

4/25/2021

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  It's becoming obvious that some politicos are not comfortable with the latest insurgency of activists demanding state action to end, and criminalize all selective abortions in our state. Some veteran politicians are now openly 'repenting' of being a 'prolife' regulator of the selective abortion industry. Other politicians are determined to block any legislation which might strengthen the Abolish Human Abortion (AHA) strategy of setting up a state policy of nullification of federal abortion policy imposition, with a committed abolitionist governor. 
  Churches across Oklahoma are confronted with picketers outside their chapels. A few Abolitionists are blaming evangelical churches for protecting the legal abortion industry by simply regulating when, where, how, and who can legally undergo a surgical death of their unborn baby.
  Other churches are holding special events billed as "Repentance Meetings".  Alter calls invite attendees to repent of being a "pro life Christian" and take up a new term of 'abolitionist'. They then define an abolitionist as opting for a strategy of "bold confrontation" as absolutists. It's not that a devotee has a change of policy about murdering unborn babies. It's about adopting an Alinskyite doctrine of political correctness, demonizing any alternative strategies,  shaming the masses, and disrupting all other social norms.
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In 2018, Abolitionist leader, Russell Hunter organized the Dan Fisher gubernatorial campaign, until he was removed and became an operative for Free The States PAC. https://www.soonerpolitics.org/editorial/campaign-worker-declares-it-a-sin-to-not-vote-for-dan-fisher

The Timeless Call To Prolife Ministry

 Let me add some historic context to this issue. I was a youth in the 1960s & 70s.  The Catholic nuns who assisted my parents in my spiritual training were deeply involved in prolife ministry way before Roe vs Wade was ruled upon.  I was active in volunteer ministry to the poor, elderly, and the developmentally disabled.  In 1973 I added another group to my list of at-risk sectors of humanity... the preborn babies. 
  The prolife nuns who instructed & trained me have nothing to repent of. They didn't write  abortion legislation. They assisted, prayed, ministered, instructed, and led by example. I've been doing these things before Roe vs Wade, and I'll be doing these things after it's overturning.   The Christian Alinskyites will not shame me. 

The Born Again analogy.

  Let me invoke an analogy from scripture.. Some Christians teach a systematic methodology of honoring God and receiving his salvation. It might include their receiving of sacraments, devotion to daily and liturgical ministry, or other systems of their church.
  Others, like myself; identify with the 'born again' experience of a complete change of life after a personal encounter with God's grace and holy spirit.
  My problem, as a 17 year old convert to Pentecostal discipleship was that I discounted any salvation which didn't affirm my own experience with God.  I was sincere, but insulting. Seeking to edify, while tearing down.  It's much the same with some folks who feel the need to repent of identifying with term 'proLife'.
   In recent years some political figures have openly apologized for "writing prolife legislation" because the outcomes still allowed thousands of murders.  Former Senators Randy Brogdon & Joseph Silk have been heavily influenced by Russell Hunter.  In 2019, Silk filed SB13, to completely end and criminalize all abortions, not just selective abortions.  Reagan's 1980 doctrine of self defense rights was wholly disregarded. I publicly urged Silk to refile his bill with life-protecting language for issues like ectopic pregnancy emergencies where a mother is bleeding to death from an exploded fallopian tube. Silk ignored my plea and only after Hunter destroyed Silk's senate career, did Silk attempt to amend his bill with self-defense-rights language. 
  Senator Warren Hamilton came to the Senate this year with wisdom and integrity, mentored by the history of how Russell Hunter's tactics  contributed to destroy the Silk initiative.  Hamilton publicly the few dozen Abolitionists who disrupted the Senate committee meeting after his first bill was rejected in early February.
  Unfortunately, Senator Treat didn't see the live video feed in the rotunda. Hamilton urged the group to adopt a personal comportment which honors the God they claim to be ambassadors of.  Sadly, Hunter immediately resumed his diatribe immediately after Hamilton ended his speech in the rotunda. 
  It seems the Abolitionists want a band of thousands of 'John the Baptist's, and not 'Apostle Paul's. But it was Paul's diplomacy before King Agrippa which actually compelled a persuasive conversion argument which Agrippa even openly acknowledged in front of the royal court. In contrast, King Herod never did publicly repent from John the Baptist's rebukes. But John's head was served up on a platter.

In early February, Sen. Hamilton's bill was soundly defeated in the 5th floor committee meeting. Out in the hall, Hamilton was asked to speak. the video contains his remarks at 2:42, into the video.
 There will always be arguments over strategy in politics.  The sad reality is that the confrontists and the incrementalists both have some valid points.  Abolitionists mostly believe in a strategy of getting a bold governor who will defy a federal supreme court and executive edicts. But most political shifts have come incrementally. 2nd Amendment Rights are a great Oklahoma example where dozens of steps have occurred over several recent years, to restore a massive portion of our original bill of rights.
​  It's terribly sad to see natural political allies devour each other over strategy differences.
Journalist, Jamison Faught of Muskogee Politico said; "... if you've ever followed the AHA group. If you're not 100% on board with them, you're essentially with the Devil. You can even be an abolitionist, but if you're not with their abolitionist group it's not good enough."

The Knee-jerk Senate Pro Temp

  This past week we saw a major legislative showdown at the capitol. All 82 Republican House members cosponsored Speaker Charles McCall's HB1236. It simply sets up a process of state legislative review of federal executive orders, agency rules, or a congressional action.  Senate ProTemp, Greg Treat, took radical action when it came to the Senate floor for a final vote. Treat initially refused any action of the bill and just wanted to run out the clock (a Thursday deadline) Treat said he would not give nullification bills any senate floor votes. But several thinktanks, activist groups, and lobbying firms joined in a massive Tuesday night rally at the capitol rotunda.  Treat then took over sponsorship of the bill and gutted it, replacing it with meaningless &  redundant language of current policy about the state Attorney General's procedures.
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'Free the States' is known for tactics like this defamation. Joseph Silk condemned the tactic in an interview I had with him in April of 2019.
  What's obsessing Treat?  Gov. Stitt is said to like the House Speaker's bill.  Others say the original bill's language doesn't even come close to a nullification bill. OK2A said that the bill is a proactive structure for any future Presidential Executive Order which circumvents the statutory lawmaking process and instead rules by edict.
  Greg Treat watched with outrage as his Health committee chairman was the target of Russell Hunter's 2019 billboard campaign in the wake of the senate rejection of SB13.
  It appears that senate leadership is indicting and convicting Hamilton, along with the senate's newest member, Jake Merrick; as collaborators with Russell Hunter.  
  It's a dangerous posturing which could topple the Senate leadership, if enough reasonable senators deem Treat as being just as vindictive as the most staunch abolitionist bullies.
  Most Republicans identify with a policy of ending all selective abortion.  But they won't use it as justification for the malicious tactics of disrupting, defaming, and harassing  in the manner that Alinsky's book; "Rules For Radicals" prescribes for tearing down governments.
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