(Cont’d from this post)

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.

Merely consider the great social reform movements of the past:  The abolitionists did not rest until passage of the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed all equal rights regardless of color; the suffragettes did not rest until a series of constitutional amendments guaranteed women the right to vote and fully participate in the civil life of the nation; even those opposed to “demon rum” had the will to fight for a constitutional amendment enshrining their moralist aims.  Shall we value the life of the unborn less than they valued an alcohol-free society?

By amending the organic documents that form the very bedrock of the American legal order to protect the unborn we place those little lives in the safest haven which we can reach this side of Eternity.  By amending the organic documents that created what the Founders called “the laboratories of democracy” we bind the abortionists with the surest bonds available this side of Hell.  By amending the organic documents in keeping with the high ideals of subsidiarity^* we rebuke a federal system that is drunk of the blood of America’s next generation and set up a case for review before the highest secular court this side of Heaven.

Add to all of those fine reasons this:  By amending the organic documents that define our state governments we can derail Obama’s socialist health care system.  It may be, in fact, our last best hope – for such action would be a grassroots movement to alter the very foundational documents of statecraft.

Some will say the time is not right for such bold action. Martin Luther King, Jr. was told that as well. We join his reply: “The time is always right to do what is right.”

Some will say such action is patently futile.  Mother Teresa was told that as well.  We join her reply: “I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”

Some will say such action is far too disruptive. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (a modern martyr) was told that as well. We join his reply that it is not enough to merely “bandage the victims under the wheel,” we must also “jam the spoke in the wheel itself.”

There are those here among us who claim that America and even Western Civilization itself is in the process of falling into the abyss.  Many also claim that the Second Coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is at hand. Such is the Blessed Hope that all Christians are to share.

If that Hope is to be realized in this generation – or if we rather face the judgment of an Angry God – under either scenario we can envision few tasks to be found doing on that great Day  of the Lord more important and pleasing to God than petitioning a renegade government for a redress of the grievances of the next generation.  There is no greater redress under our system of government than a constitutional amendment.

A constitutional amendment was the end goal of the abolitionists, the suffragettes and the prohibitionists. Are the lives of the preborn important enough to you to add them to this pantheon of protected interests?

Planned Parenthood, the politicized leadership of  the culture of death’s bevy of agent provocateurs, and professional killers (abortionists) shriek “no!” And that should be reason enough to move forward in haste.

This statement has been approved by the ArchAngel Institute’s Board of Directors.

Meetings to establish the Personhood Committee will began at the offices of the ArchAngel institute in June, 2010.  Please contact the Institute if you are interested in working to promote Personhood on this Committee of the ArchAngel Institute.

Call (260) 423-1771 or (800) 399-4620 for more details on this important and newly forming committee, which is already networked with Personhood USA, Personhood Kansas, Personhood Mississippi and Personhood Indiana.

*Subsidiarity is the principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized (competent) authority.  Our Founders considered the states (former colonies) superior to the federal government in matters of family and criminal laws under such a governing philosophy.  They still are.

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