An Episcopal priestess, Nina Churchman, claims God rejoices in abortion. Here's what she wrote on the opinion page of ECUSA's (Episcopal Church, USA) website:
From The Rev. Nina Churchman • Denver, Colorado, Jun 20, 2009
After reading the 3 June article, "Pregnancy-loss Prayers", I found the text for Rachel's Tears online and was sickened to discover that the rite for abortion is couched wholly in terms of sin and transgression. The Episcopal Church, by resolution, has long held that women have the freedom to choose an abortion. It is not considered a sin. That this new rite begins with the words, "I seek God's forgiveness..." and includes "God rejoices that you have come seeking God's merciful forgiveness..." is contrary to the resolution. Women should be able to mourn the loss of an aborted fetus without having to confess anything. God, unlike what the liturgy states, also rejoices that women facing unplanned pregnancies have the freedom to carefully choose the best option - birth, adoption or abortion - for themselves and their families. No woman makes this decision lightly or frivolously. But each needs the non-judgmental and non-coercive support of her faith community to make the best decision for her circumstances.
The wording of this liturgy focuses solely on guilt and sin instead of the grief and healing that may accompany a very difficult but appropriate decision to terminate a pregnancy. If anyone is paying attention at the General Convention, this rite should not be approved.
Churchman represents exactly why the Episcopal church is splintering. She claims to speak the word of God but defends the murder of his little ones. She is a person of the lie who abandons those most in need of the truth. Jesus condemned the religious authorities of his day calling them "whited sepulchres filled with dead men's bones." Nina Churchman and other ministers of death like her are filled to the brim with the dead bones of tiny little girls and boys only waiting for time to turn them into men and women.
I wonder what she would say to a member of her congregation who came up to her and said, "My mom almost aborted me, but she met a minister who spoke the truth about my value as a little child of God. I'm sure glad she didn't meet you instead. I wouldn't be here." How would Nina Churchman, who thinks God "rejoices" in the murder of his creation, reply?
That is pretty nauseating, isn't it? Gay marriage, ordination of practicing homosexuals, explicit approval of abortion... there are so many good reasons to break from the Episcopal church, even for people who aren't terribly conservative and who, say, don't oppose women's ordination, for instance. And any one of these reasons will do. But all of them? With so many, it's a wonder it didn't splinter decades ago.
ReplyDeleteMy heart goes out to good Christians caught in the institutionalized malarky and wickednesss in the Episcopal church, which is finally causing its collapse; I know a number of Episcopals who went through immense pain in separating from the church of their fathers. It's heartbreaking and sickening all at once.
Ryan Haber
Kensington, MD
Ms. Churchman is in my church now. God help us.
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