Sanctity of Human Life

 

If I believe in the sanctity and dignity of human life,

Then I must care about not only when life is conceived and born 

But also about what happens to that life once it enters the world. 

I must care about not only people who look and sound like me

But also about people from every tribe and nation, of every language and skin color. 

I must care about actions and policies that not only honor and protect me

But that also honor and protect the least of these. 

If I am free in Christ, 

If I believe in and follow Jesus, 

If I believe that Jesus really did summarize the law and the prophets in one statement: Love God and love others as self, 

Then I must love others not by 

Damning them 

But by welcoming them as God’s child,

Created in God’s image, 

Both to be born and truly to live.