In support of Personhood, post 1
My name is Bryan J. Brown. I served Kansas as a Deputy Attorney General under Phill Kline between 2003 – 2007 and as a First Amendment litigator for Don Wildmon’s American Family Association in the six years before that. Prior to that professional experience I was involved in pro-life activism as far back as Francis Schaeffer and Dr. C. Everett Koop’s seminal 1979 seminar “Whatever Happened to the Human Race” and as intense as leading “rescue movement” groups in Fort Wayne and Wichita. During those tours of duty on the front lines of the culture war I was privileged to meet, and work beside, some of America’s most well known pro-life and pro-family leaders.
I have stood up to statism and stood against due process violations in courts across the nation and, most recently, during my unconstitutional processing through the bar application process in Indiana. I have been in recent combat with forces of political correctness in very high places, and can assure all that the denial of due process for the unwanted is their stock-in-trade. I have documented this since my earliest days in the pro-life movement: I marched in Bloomington, Indiana while courts and hospital administrators legally dehydrated Baby Doe to death. I was also imprisoned by a federal judge for more than two months for merely refusing to pledge a personal oath of supremacy to him.
Which brings me to the topic at hand: My experiences in Christian activism, government service and constitutional law all move me to heartily endorse the “personhood” movement rising up from the grassroots across the nation.
With the arrival of Obama and his ilk on the national scene all have witnessed just how quickly the political tides can change in America. It is also revealed in the human weaknesses of even our best representatives, as the former Congressman from Northeast Indiana most recently demonstrated.
The political situation is not advantageous in most state capitols – but it is much worse in Washington, D.C. Obama continues to pack the federal bureaucracy, the federal courts, and even the Highest Court in our land with appointments who are open to the charge of being thought-out and thorough-going Leftists. He is doing incalculable damage to the American Experiment in ordered liberty that our Founding Fathers birthed in this alleged land of the free and home of the brave.
Obama, pro-life turncoats of both parties and even Republican stalwarts have demonstrated the futility of trusting in mere statutory or administration changes. Both are temporary at best. Neither offer the unborn or the presently born safe haven. King David advised us to trust not in princes.
To where does one retreat when the political floods threaten sweeping and potentially irreversible change? Americans have only one safe haven, politically speaking. It is the strength and vitality of our system of government that has held us together when most of the major democracies have fallen, — some over and over again. It is our system of constitutional republics. We are not just a nation of laws, we are a nation of organic laws. That is to say that our constitutions, state and federal, define our legal social order in a powerful fashion, a fashion that no mere statute or attorney general’s opinion or even off-point supreme court decision can uproot.
Which brings me back to the topic at hand: My experience as a political dissident and social reformer move me to heartily endorse the “personhood” movement sweeping across the nation.
Tomorrow: Post 2 in this series
