Renowned Theologian Confronts City Council, Urges City To Become 'Sanctuary' for Unborn
Theologian James White has a fantastic idea: What if Phoenix were a “sanctuary city” for the unborn?
White, head of apologetics group Alpha and Omega Ministries, appeared before the Phoenix City Council this week and gave a viral speech in which he compared the act of abortion to what went on inside Nazi concentration camps.
“In April 1945, American forces were moving into the heart of Germany and they freed a city called Weimar,” White said.
“It’s a beautiful little city. Right up on the hill outside of Weimar was a very large camp. We know it today as the Buchenwald concentration camp.”
“What they found there has become stuff of legend,” he continued.
“But, for example, the camp superintendent’s wife was fascinated by human skin. She had a lampshade made of human skin. She was fascinated by tattoos that she would have people killed and have their tattoos preserved.
“The kind of horrific things that took place in Buchenwald over the years so shocked the American leadership that when Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Patton toured the camp, General Patton commanded that the mayor and magistrates and leading citizens of Weimar be forced to tour the camp to see what had been done right under their eyes for many years,” he said.
“Now, most of us would say that was a moral act on the part of the Americans,” he continued, noting that the people of Weimar “kept their eyes down” when it came to the realities of Buchenwald.
“The citizens of Weimar did nothing. They said, ‘We didn’t know!’” he said. “They knew.”
The moral parallels to modern America were obvious to White.
“The reality is, within the borders of the city of Phoenix, more innocent children have been killed in equally gruesome ways than were ever killed in the Buchenwald concentration camp in the entire years that it was in operation,” he said.
“How will history look at us?” White said. “Will there be a General Patton who has to rise from the dead and force us to walk through the abortuaries? How will the judge of all history look upon us when we stand before him?
“He knows whether we knew or not,” White added. “And we live in a day where there’s no reason not to know what’s going on. Not to know the humanity of the preborn child.
“I ask you, please make the city of Phoenix a sanctuary city for preborn children. Save us from the infamy of and cowardice of Weimar,” he said in closing.
Now, we know that pro-abortion forces will watch this and either laugh or foam at the mouth. Perhaps he changed some minds among the undecided, but I don’t think that’s what he was looking to do.
Instead, his speech was aimed directly at those who are pro-life but keep their eyes down.
It’s easy enough to make abortion a back-burner issue. It’s easy enough to say that it’s in the hands of the courts and go about our business. We don’t ask ourselves what we can do because we think there’s nothing we can do.
We need to start looking for ways to enshrine the culture of life. Volunteer at a pro-life clinic. Donate to pro-life causes. Perhaps speak before your town or city council regarding making your locale a sanctuary city for the unborn.
Whatever you do, don’t be a part of Weimar.
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