When I talked about single parents, a few people brought up that welfare encourages poor decision making. And that’s true. There are women who make terrible choices and keep having children with reckless men, abusing our resources. At the same time, failure to care for single parents also encourages poor decision making. And that poor decision is abortion. If we don’t want children to be aborted, then we can’t make their parents (often moms) feel helpless, shamed, and alone. And while I don’t agree with welfare fraud, it’s paltry compared to what we send in foreign aid or spend bombing third world nations that can’t threaten us. If we stopped our neocon foreign policy, which has wasted untold trillions and made life harder on today’s youths, we would have saved MUCH more money. The Bible teaches that fornication is a sin, as is a father who abandons a family. But children are not. So is lying and cheating charity. We haven’t created a superior alternative to welfare and I hope brighter minds can supply it. The question I pose to Christians: do you want more abortions? Or do you want more children born? Pro life isn’t going to win at the polls right now. Have you ever considered that God might be calling us to win in another arena first? Make abortion unthinkable, and you will make pro life abortion a winnable strategy. God doesn’t always ask us to win politically. Look at what the left did to win major victories that never would have passed legislatively. That may be the prolife path to victory as well. I will continue to vote for pro life leaders, but I also will accept the fact that God calls us to fix issues in a variety of ways, and not always at the ballot box. Politics reflects the culture, so it may be the culture we are asked to change first.
@TheMuppetPastor Worked in public housing (exec level); saw that "the govt" actively pushed away father's role. Sure, women can make good or bad choices but the $ incentives to remain unmarried are huge factors. This has detrimental consequences on the societal, as well as individual, level.
@PaulaHa36571122 It does, and that’s why I’ve said welfare isn’t the answer. We need something better.
@TheMuppetPastor @PaulaHa36571122 We need policies that encourage marriage.
@TheMuppetPastor @PaulaHa36571122 Even churches now have regulated activities. Local efforts to feed homeless resulted in public health department shutting it down
@TheMuppetPastor @PaulaHa36571122 Before government became the baby daddy teat encouraging bad decisions, such aid fell to the local church. Who also had the benefit of knowing who was grifting and who truly needed help. This would be a good start.