The Abortion Heresy
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The lesson of the Civil
War that Americans learned, and have not forgotten, is that slavery is
wrong. People are not chattels. Congress emphasized this when it quickly
responded to the end of the Civil War by passing the Civil War amendments.
The Thirteenth Amendment formally abolished
slavery. Congress proposed it to the states on January 31, 1865.
The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed due process
and equal protection of the laws to all Americans. Furthermore, it addressed
the states rights debate and adopted Webster's and Lincoln's “national
rights” theory, proposed to the state legislatures by Congress on June 13,
1866. These Fourteenth Amendment guarantees were superior to the power of
the states.
The Fifteenth Amendment guaranteed the right to
vote for all adult males regardless of their race. Congress sent it to the
states on February 26, 1869.
Congress intended that the Civil War amendments
would not only correct the injustice done to slaves, but would also correct
errors in constitutional interpretation. States’ rights were not superior to
natural rights. Inalienable rights were natural rights beyond the states’
jurisdiction.
Unfortunately, other Civil War lessons have not
survived. Theology that fails to confront serious moral issues results in
national sin, and national sin results in predictable negative consequences.
Law rooted in expedience and compromise rather than in God’s moral law will
be resisted by Christian people. The denial of justice will lead to
conflict.
Modern Americans deny that ignorance of these
principles is a threat to the nation’s well-being. We refuse to consider
that a departure from the divine attributes of a living God, as Lincoln
understood, will lead to any consequences today. In a nation whose very
existence was based upon and nurtured on a continuous dependence on divine
providence, God is now considered irrelevant. During the somber days at the
end of the Civil War, perhaps for the first time, did the American people
remember and understand the relationship between the fortunes of a nation
and God. That most important lesson of the Civil War has now been dismissed
as irrelevant history.