They Told Us
First they told us that the Words of the Bible, weren’t really God’s. They told us that while it may have been inspired, the Holy Book was really the work of men and in essence, flawed, as all men are flawed. Some agreed, others, who clung to God’s word were said to be uneducated. Then they told us gender roles were archaic. We were nothing, if not the same. They said the defined family unit was abnormal, that mom and dad didn’t always live together, and claiming that to be the normal family was unjust to those living in other households. Then they voted choice, rather than life. They started using words like fetus and embryo or cluster of cells. They chose not to mention the child within the womb. They said it prevented back alley abortions. They said it was the moral thing to do. Thus life doesn’t begin until the mother chooses to allow the infant to breathe. Then we were told it would take...