One of my students just turned in a parental permission form for going to pray in a park and also in front of Planned Parenthood later in the semester. Those words struck me as if I had never seen them, let alone be the one to write them: Planned Parenthood.
One would read those words and, if one didn't know any better, would assume birth takes place there. A birth might take place there but it is entirely accidental. Nobody goes to Planned Parenthood to actually walk out a parent cradling a child. The idea it presents is that you are to only become a parent if you plan to be one. Part of the trouble (or gift--matter of perspective) is that by the time Planned Parenthood is "needed" the person is most likely already a parent.
As I looked at those two little words---so innocent on their own---I wanted to say that it was unfair. They shouldn't be allowed to use those words, to speak those lies, to shove that myth down the throats of the unsuspecting and vulnerable. But of course---that is why those chose it. It is built on a foundation of lies. And do you know what happens with that kind of foundation? Jesus does.
"Every one who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep, and laid the foundation upon rock; and when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it had been well built. But he who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation; against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great." (Lk. 6: 47-49)The days of pernicious lies are numbered. In the end, everything will be tested and what is not of the Lord, will fall. And the ruin will be great.
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