(October 28, 2023 at 4:34 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Sooo... how are we going to enforce this?
It is explained in the article that they expect citizens (Christians) to betray the trust of pregnant people and report them to the police if they hear that they are going to have an abortion.
Quote:The ordinance is enforceable through the private enforcement mechanism which has proven its success in both the Lubbock City Ordinance and the Texas Heartbeat Act. This is how the ordinance is enforced," the statement said.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
