by Rusty Pugh and Jody Brown
(AgapePress) – A pro-life activist says she is not optimistic that the State of Mississippi will allow a specialty license plate that says “Choose Life.”
The Mississippi House has already rejected the “Choose Life” tag, and pro-life supporters fear that it could be defeated entirely. Pro-life lobbyist Terry Herring says pro-abortion forces feel threatened by the tag because they do not want women to have a real choice. But ironically, Herring says this tag will probably die not because of staunch pro-abortionists, but because of the lack of commitment from legislators who claim to be pro-life.
“We have several … pro-life legislators who are struggling with this issue,” Herring says, “but they're concerned that the pro-aborts will have their own tag in Mississippi, and they [the legislators] don't want one. I don't think that argument is legitimate. I think it's misdirected pro-life action … we're supposed to overcome evil with good, not allow evil to keep us from doing good.”
Herring says pro-lifers are finding out who their friends are in the Mississippi legislature.
“[O]ut of 200 potential votes between the House and the Senate, we have maybe 20 opposed … and only about three or four that are really significant,” she says. “It just shows you that in this process, every representative, every senator matters, and if they are in a position of power, they can stop things like [pro-life legislation] from coming through.”
“We're finding out who's for us and who's against us.”
The bill that would create the tag has a better chance of passing in the State Senate, but both chambers would have to come to an agreement before it would go to Governor Ronnie Musgrove for his signature.
Musgrove did sign a piece of legislation last week that has garnered him praise from pro-family leaders in his state. The new law, which takes effect on July 1, would require an “In God We Trust” poster to be posted in every public classroom in the state. Critics have cited the law as just another unfunded requirement placed on schools with reduced budgets. Family Voice, a pro-family organization in the Magnolia State, announced today it is in the process of procuring private funds to produce posters with the national motto for the approximately 32,000 classrooms in the state.
(This update courtesy of Agape Press.)
Judge Bork Says “Elites” Negatively Influence American Culture
by Bill Fancher and Jody Brown
Judge Robert Bork of the American Enterprise Institute says negative decisions of the Supreme Court regarding life issues are the result of its being influenced by “the other side.” According to Bork, a very special group — whom he refers to as the “elite” — has been the key influence on the high court over the past few decades.
“The court is dominated [and] influenced by the 'elite culture' … [meaning] the law school faculties, the university faculties, the print and electronic journalists, Hollywood, the entertainment industry, and all of the people who think that they are the elites of this country,” Bork says.
Bork says this influential group is hostile toward religion and moral values, and that is why the court has seemed hostile as well.
“The court responds to them, and that 'elite culture' has become very secular and very hostile to religion,” he says. “The court turned against religion at that point.”
Bork says that group helped get abortion legalized and the Ten Commandments and prayer removed from schools. He believes those decisions were not what he calls “good law.” He says the liberal court has gone well beyond its constitutional mandate. He does, however, see the court slowly changing its attitude and expects the next vacancy on the bench to complete the switch back to a favorable view of religion.
