Pro-Life

This my most recent submital to my local paper regarding the homelessness issue facing the city
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I'm pro-life. I have the belief as a christian that abortion is wrong, that the senseless death of an unborn child is terrible and shouldn't be allowed. I believe that socially it sends a bad message to our children regarding the sanctity of human life. Ah, the sanctity of human life, our notion as Americans that all men were created equal or even the christian perspective that men are created in the image of God would tell are sensibilities that human life is sacred. We do value life , most of us are taught from an early age to respect others and just to be nice to people. Our society is one that for the most part is based on the idea of the value of human life, in fact judeo- christian theology teaches that you should "love your neighbor". I'm sure that if I were to take a poll of local(Porterville) Christians, that most if not all would agree with all the principles I have laid out here. Yet if these same ideas are placed on a homeless person, the value of that life decreases radically and people start calling them drug addicts and alcoholics, they demean their value as something less than a person created in the image of God. Over the last couple months there has been 2 people die on the streets of this city, and only God knows how many more didn't receive publicity that have also died on the streets of Porterville.Since these 2 people died , there has been very little call to action(especially within churches), to make a homeless shelter happen, Oh sure there has been plenty of talk, by local religious groups and city leaders, but talk is cheap. We can't say we value life, if we don't value the lives of those that suffer with need. All human life is sacred in the eyes of God, for they all bear His image, from the unborn baby, to the man sleeping under the bridge. I couldn't say I follow Jesus Christ if I didn't believe this. This issue of homelessness, should be taken considerably more seriously , by the christian leaders of this city, than the prayer issue that was rallied against last year. If we that bear the name "Christian" believe in the sanctity of human life then we must do all we can to help these people now.