We can’t keep quiet

Earlier this week Attorney General Merrick Garland was grilled by Republican Senators as to why the Justice Department seems to be treating pro-lifers differently than pro-abortion folks. The best example of this two-tiered system is their treatment of pro-lifer Mark Houck, which Senator Ted Cruz brought up during the hearing.

Houck was charged federally and taken to trial for pushing an abortion clinic worker. This happened in Pennsylvania in September of 2021. The abortion clinic volunteer pressed charges for the push, but the sidewalk video shows he was pushed only after he got aggressive with Houck’s 12-yearold son. He didn’t attack him, but he was coming at him and yelling in his face. He approached the Houcks and began threatening them as they were praying and offering counsel to women. That’s why local charges were dropped.

But enter Biden’s Justice Department a year after the incident, and we have 30 armed FBI agents raiding Houck’s home at gunpoint with his wife and 7 young children screaming. Houck later said that after he got a letter that said the federal government may be pursuing charges, he tried to contact them. The next time he hears from them is in the form of a SWAT team at his door. This man was not a risk at all, but they chose to arrest him in this manner to intimidate prolifers and make them look like the bad guys.

Fortunately, Houck was found “not guilty” by a Pennsylvania jury. He’s now considering pressing charges of his own related to prosecutorial abuse against the FBI agents and state troopers who conducted the raid on his home. I wish him success in that.

Another example of the left trying to make a Christian pro-lifer look like a bad guy was when folks in the media began to assassinate the character of former NFL coach Tony Dungy on social media. Dungy dared to speak at a March for Life event and tweeted his feelings about a school putting menstrual products in a boys’ restroom.

Dungy is a good man who was mocking a bad idea, which we should all be doing. We also should be calling out sin and evil, especially when it involves hurting children. As a Christian, I believe abortion is evil because innocent children are being murdered every day this way. We should be more upset and have more of a sense of urgency about that. We should be calling it out, as well as those who push and support abortion as something good. They are the bad guys.

Back to the twotiered justice system while our Department of Justice is now targeting more pro-lifers with charges, they have not pursued charges against those who have fire-bombed crisis pregnancy centers. These centers actually help women instead of profiting off of women who are suffering a crisis pregnancy by killing their child.

Attorney General Garland gave the excuse that it was because the firebombings happen at night while pro-life protests happen during the day. So, isn’t it known that criminal activity usually happens at night? If they wanted to catch them, they could. They just don’t want to because the fire-bombers are helping our Justice Department with their goals of intimidating pro-lifers into keeping quiet.

Let’s not keep quiet. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor who was executed for trying to stop Hitler, once said, “Silence in the presence of evil is itself evil.” For me, abortion ranks up there as one of the most evil and barbaric things mankind has done to mankind, and it kills the most innocent and vulnerable among us.