So what is the emoticon for heavy sigh?
OK- so Norman is full of glee that the current regime is really getting the boot in against the anti-christ I mean the Roman Catholic Church, and Charles and the other (As Lenin would call them) useful idiots don't see the danger.
Of course the current regime is going after the RCC first. Beat down us, and who else is going to do do anything? At this point, of course the ELCA as a national entity pretty much endorses everything the current regime does. I certainly am unaware of any condemnations. But at some point somewhere the Evangelical Lutheran Synod and the ELCA and its mainline sisters are going to fall afoul of them and then it will be your turn. The fact that neither denomination has any real influence nationally is prety much what spares you.
As to Steven's quoting the motto of the Commonwealth of Virginia, inscribed on my class ring from the University, and the motto of the seat of the Diocese for whom I work, what are you saying? Are Allentown (chock full o' Lutherans!) and Virginia are creepy? I think not. That a crazed racist missappropriated the motto is to be lamented. But the idea behind it is just. In this country, every time we cast a vote, we can, if our minds are strong and our wills are too, turn over incipient tyranny.
And demanding laws against abortion is actually exactly parallel to demanding laws against murder.
And one final thing. As to the "War aganist women"
Which side is it that wants to pump women full of Class I carcinogens?
Which side has said, "freedom of choice means freedom to abort because the child is female?"
