13 Years of the GBCS’s Greatest Hits, Part One: Social Stances
File this under the “evil men do in the name of God”
Be sure to read the whole thing, but here is a small sample of the garbage done by the General Board of Church and Society
The GBCS staff endorsing and participating in an April 2004 abortion rally – without consulting or even notifying their directors. Press accounts described this DC rally as focused on defending abortion against any legal limitations (especially protesting the federal ban on partial-birth abortions/infanticides) and promoting partisan election campaign efforts. Speakers and marchers repeatedly denounced pro-life Christians with hateful rhetoric while making countless crass references to sex acts and female anatomy. My own eyewitness account is apparently archived here on a website to which I have no connection. Another account, by a pro-legal-abortion columnist, noted how“[s]ome of the protest signs were crude to pornographic”while “[p]rofanity and obscene gesturing toward the pro-life [counter-protesters] were commonplace” among the GBCS-supported marchers. And here is a compilation of observations the hateful-mob characterwhich many of the GBCS-supported marchers adopted (warning: not G-rated).