August 25, 1989 Remembered
On August 25, 1989 hundreds of Christians gathered in the 800 block of Webster Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana to take a stand against the childkilling that had been taking place there since 1978.
More than two hundred risked arrest that day. The police did arrest 175.
It was the third rescue in 12 weeks during that summer of Christian resolve.
The three 1989 rescues (sit ins) in Fort Wayne were not as successful as hoped and they did draw down the full firepower of Susan Hill’s friends at the NOW and ACLU and other leftist public interest law firms … legal crucifixions followed during Holy Week of 1990.
The sit-ins may not have resulted in a closed clinic, but they did model Christian resolve to stand for God’s law first and Christian resolve to stand as one, despite denominational disagreements going back more than 20 generations.
We at the Institute think that Alexander Solzhenitsyn would have approved.
August 25 is the 19th anniversary of what was probably the largest act of civil disobedience in the history of Indiana.
God, Family, Country. (Not the reverse, not ever.)
See the category “refuse, resist and/or rebel” for more on this subject.
