GRAVITAS

Recently, my brother, the other member of Verily Prime, took our beloved mother out to dinner; apparently, during the dinner, the surrounding tables were opining about Michael Vick. My brother conveyed to me that the consensus among the dinner guests was that Michael Vick was an ogre and basically should be a candidate for the funeral pyre. Of course my brother had to engage the guests by asking the question--has anyone around the tables had an abortion and if she did, did she consider herself better than Michael Vick? I am told that there was an elephant pregnant pause, along with unsettling silence at the tables. I am not certain if I would have had the gravitas to do what my brother did, especially with our mother at the table. In a similar vein, to that lady who, via this blog, has argued the merits of her abortion and boasting about being a Christian, I am not worthy to judge, but I will vehemently disagree with you that abortion is an act sanctioned by Jesus. I say to my confuse sister, peruse anyone of the Gospels, especially Luke, and you will be edified. In law school, one must stud y Roe vs. Wade and one will learn about quickening, trimesters, and demarcation lines like 24 weeks. To my sister, I put no stock into those brilliant Constitutional judicial prose authored by flesh and blood we call jurists--my stock is in the Gospel of Luke, and we are told that John the Baptist, while he was six months old in his mother, Elizabeth’s, womb, started kicking his mother when Jesus, who was only three months (12 weeks) old in Mary’s stomach, passed by--John the Baptist kicked out of respect when he recognized the Messiah. I need not go any further my sister because you could decipher for yourself the meaning and believe me when I say that part of the Gospels refuting abortion is not written allegorically. Many of my brothers and sisters on the left would always repeat the mantra that only Cuba, South Africa, Russia and the United States sanction Capital Punishment; they say this to make people like me feel guilty…Right back at you brethren, not even bin laden would engage in the abomination call abortion….

-Verily Prime