Seth & Aubrie Drayer

Created Equal was back on the streets today in downtown Columbus. One man who initially agreed with me that abortion is immoral then began to complain about "those Bible-thumpers trying to defund Planned Parenthood." He then made this bold declaration: "Planned Parenthood doesn't do abortions. Ever. End of story." I beg to differ. Here is a screen shot from a Columbus PP. Note the services offered: "Abortion services."

(To see the HTML version of the newsletter, click here .) "Sir, would you call an acorn an oak tree?" the student asked. I looked out over the mixed crowd of abortion opponents and supporters. "No," I responded. "Thank you for illustrating my point, actually. An acorn is not an oak tree--but, it is part of the oak family. Just as an acorn is a very young member of the oak family, a fetus is a very young member of the human family." He tried again: "So, if I asked for an oak tree, you'd bring me an acorn?" "No," I said, "just like if you asked me for an infant, I wouldn't bring you a thirty-year-old woman." Laughter erupted from atheists and Christians alike packed into the Ohio State (OSU) classroom. The event had been co-sponsored by Ratio Christi (a Christian apologetics group) and Students for Freethought (an atheistic club). I began with a basic presentation against abortion, then responded to objections fr...

The "Pro-Choice" crowd wants to keep abortion legal. One would think, then, that it would be simple for them to define this act they want to keep beneath the sanction of the law. And yet, sometimes, they struggle to put into words what exactly an abortion is. Maybe because even defining an abortion in any terms not laden with euphemism is disturbing. Aubrie and I recently approached a crowd of abortion advocate demonstrators to ask them to define an abortion. Watch their response.

Does it ever bother you when art intended to cater to Christians is covered with smiling faces, blue skies and labels such as "uplifting and encouraging"? Is it somehow anti-Christian to overflow with joy or bask in the beauty of a sunny afternoon? Is the Christian life devoid of uplifting and encouraging news? Of course not. What bothers me is that we---speaking collectively on behalf of American Christendom---focus almost exclusively upon the good news to the exclusion of the really bad news. What is the bad news? The bad news is that man is lost. The Fall, an event which really happened (not merely a tale composed to convey some religious truism) dealt a major blow: fixing a massive gulf between man and God, ushering chaos into the world with divisions between man and other men, man and nature, man and himself, etc. This bad news must not be overlooked; for, without it, there is little meaning to the good news. What does it mean to say man is "saved" if he ...

I appreciate logical consistency. Sometimes, though, the desire to be consistent with one's pet views may lead to conclusions which are humorous, baffling---or even terrifying. I recently posted a survey on the Created Equal Facebook page asking the following question: When it comes to killing toddlers, are you pro-choice or anti-choice? The options: - Pro-Choice: I trust people to decide for themselves. - Anti-Choice: I oppose killing toddlers. Normally, this is a question upon which abortion advocates and opponents are united. While they disagree on the value of life in the womb, most agree that it is wrong to kill born children (exceptions include Peter Singer of Princeton). Admitting that common ground, however, is a dangerous step for the abortion advocate---for it does not take long to get from "it is wrong to kill toddlers" to "it is wrong to kill the preborn." Because of this, many who would personally rise to action if someone were actual...

How do pro-life activists share good news? Here's one way.

Geico has a history for clever marketing. One of their commercials , for example, shows what it really would look like to "live under a rock." While having zero knowledge of the savings Geico offers could qualify for one living under a rock these days, another example would be to have heard nothing of Lila Rose, Live Action, and the many investigations into Planned Parenthood. I can imagine the commercial now. "Planned Parenthood covers up statutory rape and sex trafficking of minors." "No way! I didn't know that." "What, have you been living under a rock?" Instead of a neolithic-looking man crawling out from under the rock, though, it would be Nancy Pelosi and President Obama blinking their eyes as they wipe off the dust from blissful hibernation. Something else which has been hard to miss is the PR campaign mounted by Planned Parenthood to combat the efforts of Live Action. While in Florida for the Genocide Awareness Project, I chatted w...