The Foundational Issue

Joel Belz nails the foundational issue in our society today in his article Stop Apologizing. Solve this problem, he says, and you will solve other issues that flow from it--such as racism, the environment and the economy. Here are a few choice quotes:

It is hard to see how anyone can claim to be a protector of the environment and not put a high priority on the preservation of human babies. To defend a focus on the future of polar bears and whales, while asking evangelicals to get less noisy about infant humans, is an embarrassing contradiction.

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No economist can look at the loss of 50 million American babies over the last 45 bears and not wince at the impact of such a drain on the economic vitality of our society.