Choices, Right and Wrong 

   Society seems to have decided that any choice made is just as valid as any other.  My choice is right for me and yours is right for you and neither of us has the right to question another’s choice.  The fact that certain things are always right, and others are always wrong has been lost.

   In the early days of Christianity Roman Emperors brutally persecuted the Christian community.  Nero was known to have had them drenched in oil, hung on poles, and set afire while still alive along the streets of Rome.  That choice could never be considered a right choice.

   Hitler brutally murdered millions of Jews, Catholics, Gays, and Gypsies as a means of cleansing what he called the Master Race.  They were used for medical experiments, starved, and killed.  No one would try to justify that decision, that choice.

   In pre-Civil War times in this country, slavery was a common economic decision made by many to provide cheap labor.  Often treated no better than animals, slaves were brutalized and killed for the most minor indiscretion.  Families were separated and sold to various new owners.  Our nation still suffers because of that choice.

   On this day in 1973 the Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, determined that babies in the womb were not worthy of protection.  In the United States alone over 50 million innocent children have been slaughtered in the womb.  Some say we shouldn’t or even can’t question that court decision.  I would remind them of another Supreme Court decision.  On March 6, 1857, also by a 7-2 decision, the court informed Mr. Dred Scott that he was not entitled to protection under the constitution.  They reasoned that African Americans were not and never could be citizens of the United States.  That choice was also wrong.

   At the judgement we will be held accountable for our choices.  Some choices are always wrong. 

We live by the choices we make.

We will be judged by those choices.

Give us the wisdom to make right choices.

To respect your creation of all human live. 

Amen