{"id":949,"date":"2009-01-27T08:44:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T13:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=949"},"modified":"2009-01-27T08:44:32","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T13:44:32","slug":"piper-responds-to-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"Piper responds to President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/ResourceLibrary\/Sermons\/ByDate\/2009\/3528_The_Baby_in_My_Womb_Leaped_for_Joy\/\">John Piper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As everyone knows, our new President, over whom we have rejoiced, does not share this reverence for the beginning of human life. He is trapped and blinded by a culture of deceit. On the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, he said, &#8220;We are reminded that this decision not only protects women&#8217;s health and reproductive freedom, but stands for a broader principle: that government should not intrude on our most private family matters.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>To which I say . . .<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No, Mr. President, you are not protecting women&#8217;s health; you are authorizing the destruction of half a million tiny women every year.<\/li>\n<li>No, Mr. President, you are not protecting reproductive freedom; you are authorizing the destruction of freedom for a million helpless people every year.<\/li>\n<li>No, Mr. President, killing our children does not cease to be killing our children no matter how many times you call it a private family matter. Call it what you will, they are dead, and we have killed them. And you, Mr. President, would keep the killing legal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Some of us wept with joy over the inauguration of the first African-American President. We will pray for you. And may God grant that there arises in your heart an amazed and happy reverence for the beginning of every human life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inlightofthegospel.org\/?p=3682\" target=\"_blank\">James Grant<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Piper: As everyone knows, our new President, over whom we have rejoiced, does not share this reverence for the beginning of human life. He is trapped and blinded by a culture of deceit. On the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, he said, &#8220;We are reminded that this decision not only protects women&#8217;s health &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=949\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Piper responds to President Obama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,84,4,78,67,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-culture","category-current-events","category-law-and-faith","category-politics","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}