James Lankford Asks: Will We Protect Animals, but Not Children?

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James Lankford Asks: Will We Protect Animals, but Not Children?

Tom Lankford Asks: Will We Protect Animals, But Not Children?

Christian Post Report – “Mr. President, I’d like to take just a moment to be able to speak about a subject that’s very, very difficult for me to speak about, and quite frankly difficult for a lot of Americans to talk about and hear about. It connects to all of us, in extremely personal ways.

Let me set some context. Not long ago a group of animal rights activists gathered around a research facility, a research facility that was using animals for their testing. The activists gathered around the facility and chanted and had signs that they held up saying “it’s not science, it’s violence.” And other signs that said “animal lives are their right, we have just begun to fight.” As they protested to protect the lives of the animals that were being used in that facility for research.

Now, I understand their frustration there. But let me put it into context of some things that came out this week. We learned that this week an organization called Planned Parenthood is using children that are aborted and sending the bodies of those aborted children to research facilities, sometimes for sale, different body parts, to be used in research. These are not mice, these are not lab rats, these are children. Children that have gone through the process of a horrific abortion.

This morning in an appropriations hearing, that the president and I both were in, we had extensive conversation about the rights of orca whales. And this protracted conversation went on and on — that many people were also connected to — about the rights of orca whales and the care for them. Then we had a protracted conversation about horse slaughter and how horses would be humanely put down. But in the middle of all that conversation happening today, there were children still being aborted with an instrument reaching into a mother, tearing apart a child but carefully protecting certain organs because those organs would be valuable to sell.”

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Potter’s House Pastor Chris Hill Explains Why His Denver Megachurch Needs Armed Guards

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Potter’s House Pastor Chris Hill Explains Why His Denver Megachurch Needs Armed Guards

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  • Armed members of the security team at The Potter's House of Denver in Colorado check their weapons.(Photo: screengrab)
Armed members of the security team at The Potter’s House of Denver in Colorado check their weapons.
  • The Potter's House of Denver in Colorado has kept armed guards among its security team for years, according to pastor Chris Hill in a New York Times video feature.(Photo: screengrab)
    • The Potter’s House of Denver in Colorado has kept armed guards among its security team for years, according to pastor Chris Hill in a New York Times video feature.
  • Pastor Chris Hill of The Potter's House of Denver in Colorado is seen in a New York Times video.(Photo: screengrab)
    • Pastor Chris Hill of The Potter’s House of Denver in Colorado is seen in a New York Times video.

    The Rev. Chris Hill, senior pastor of The Potter’s House of Denver in Colorado, has shared that members of his congregation who were once critical of the presence of armed guards in the sanctuary now understand the necessity of such security measures in the wake of the Charleston church massacre.

    The Charleston shooting was certainly not the first time a church had been targeted by a gunman. The Christian Post reported in 20Christian Post Report – 12 that a former employee of Creflo Dollar’s World Changers Church International in College Park, Georgia, had walked into an early morning Bible study and shot a member point blank while he prayed. In 2009, late-term abortion Dr. George Tiller was murdered while serving as an usher at Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas. In fact, Carl Chinn, a former Focus on the Family safety manager and a church security expert, tracks “deadly force incidents” at faith-based organizations. According to Chinn’s data, there have been 97Christian Post Report – 1 such incidents between Jan. Christian Post Report – 1, Christian Post Report – 1999 and Feb. Christian Post Report – 15 of this year.

    “You are not safe on a plane. You are not safe in an elementary school. You are not safe in a high school. You are not safe in a movie theater. Guess what? You are not safe in a church,” Hill told The New York Times in a “Protecting the Sanctuary” video feature on The Potter’s House of Denver published this week.

    Hill shared that the church he grew up in did not have a safety team, and did not need one. Times are different now, he said, “We need safety.”

    “This is a pastor who is doing Bible study on Wednesday night. I do Bible study on Wednesday night, for the last 25 years,” Hill said at another point. “For someone in my calling and in profession, that just hits home.”

    Hill was referencing the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, a South Carolina state senator and pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. Pinckney, along with eight members of his congregation, were murdered in cold blood by a white supremacist during a Bible study at the church on June Christian Post Report – 17. Dylann Storm Roof, the alleged confessed 2Christian Post Report – 1-year-old gunman, was charged for the murders, reportedly inspired by his desire to simply kill black Americans.

    The Colorado pastor was not the only church leader considering, perhaps again, the security of his congregation since the Emanuel A.M.E. mass shooting, although Hill installed safety measures for The Potter’s House of Denver years ago. In June, The Wall Street Journal spoke with several black pastors who said they were seriously considering for the first time incorporating armed guards in their churches’ safety measures.

    Hill said some members who were previously critical of his desire for a semi-armed security team called him after the Charleston shooting and said, “Now I get it. Now I understand.”

    The Times video gives an inside look at how Hill’s 25-member security team does its job in protecting the congregation and its pastor. Hill also gives insight into the makeup of the 7,000-member congregation, which he shared was about 50 percent black and 35 percent white, with the remaining members being Latino and of other ethnicities.

    Watch the “Protecting the Sanctuary” video below:

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    Source : Christian Post