Presbyterian Church USA Turns More Secular as it Strikes Down Pro-Life Principles

The IRD has provided thoughtful coverage and insight on the Presbyterian Church USA’s (PCUSA) General Assembly voting to redefine marriage. In a press release, IRD president Mark Tooley asks, “[w]ho respects a church that only echoes the secular world?”

Such a worthy question not only applies with regards to marriage as God intended, however, but to protecting the lives of the most innocent, defenseless and vulnerable among us: the unborn. The Presbyterian Church USA has not only gone against the will of God with marriage, but has offended Christ and his desire to help all in society. As Matt Walsh says in a post on LifeNews.com:

Further, Jesus makes it clear that whatever we do or fail to do for “the least of His brothers” we did or failed to do for Him (Matthew 25). When we abort a child, we are therefore aborting Christ.

I feel sick even typing that sentence, but there is no other way to interpret the matter.

But the most shocking Biblical attacks against abortion cannot be boiled down to one or two sentences. The central point — the Ultimate Moment — of Christianity is, among other things, a stunning rebuke against abortion. Indeed, if there is one issue today that most offends and desecrates the Christian Message, it is abortion.

And it is not merely that the Presbyterian Church USA took a pro-choice position. The Genera Assembly voted to stand with late-term abortionist and convicted murderer, Kermit Gosnell. When 78 percent of the General Assembly votes against such commonsense actions of denouncing the murder of babies who survive an abortion, that’s what you’re endorsing. The General Assembly also voted in such a way that completely excludes pro-life Presbyterians, as recommendations from the same resolution, “On Entering a Two-Year Season of Reflection on the Plight of Unwanted Children, and Appointing a Special Committee on Abortion Review—From the Presbytery of South Alabama,” asked to take a balanced approach with regards to pro-life and pro-choice viewpoints, and with regards to “financial, in-kind, lodgment, publicity, and staff support” given to pro-life and pro-choice groups. There is no other way to say it. PCUSA is pro-abortion then.

Let us further apply this to Mark Tooley’s question. Reporting from WORLD Magazine mentions that “[d]issenters cited pro-abortion stances, while others noted past affirmation of viable babies and reservations in commenting on criminal cases.” As another recommendation of the resolution mention, there is the “churches’ desire to worship God in purest form (Jas. 1:27). ” And to truly worship God and the sacrifice his son made for us on the cross, as well as to love all people, that includes, at the very least, giving a voice to the pro-life viewpoint. There are others expressing the same viewpoint, when it comes to “reservations in commenting on criminal cases.” Our secular government in the administration of President Barack Obama did so, which arguably is the most pro-abortion administration in our nation’s history. 

The support the PCUSA has for abortion comes at the expense of refusing to stand up even for babies surviving this grisly procedure and silencing pro-life members. What kind of church is the PCUSA then? It truly has become more of a secular body it would seem, bowing to the whim of the forces in favor of abortion (and late-term abortion  at that) and same-sex marriage. And this church may not be around for much longer. In writing also for The American Spectator, Mark Tooley proclaims that “Presbyterians Become the Silly Church,” with the headline reading “A dying mainline church speeds its decline.” Indeed! From the piece:

The Mainline’s support for abortion and implied hostility to large families, now compounded by its redefinition of marriage and divorcing of sex from marriage, have all helped to create a culture where the typical Mainline congregation is now largely gray headed and has few if any children.

The Presbyterian Church USA may very well die out soon. Either its members will literally die out, or the faithful will wake up and recognize that such viewpoints do not reflect how to properly “worship God in purest form,” as is our duty and call as Christians who follow the love, good works and inclusiveness of Christ. For as the resolution proclaims in its rationale, “The blood of little children cries out to God and to Christ’s Church for protection and justice.”