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Article: Pro-Life and Civil Rights Camps Should Band Together to Right Wrongs
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- The Washington Post
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- January 31, 2009
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This week's sermon is by the Rev. David R. Stokes, senior pastor
of Fair Oaks Church in Fairfax, marking Sanctity of Human Life
Sunday on Jan. 18. President Ronald Reagan established a National
Sanctity of Human Life Sunday in 1984, to be held the Sunday in
January that falls closest to the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade
abortion decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The recent passing of theologian Richard John Neuhaus brings to
mind a passage from the book of Genesis: "There were giants in the
earth in those days."
As Michael Gerson mentioned in his recent tribute to Neuhaus in
The Washington Post, there was a time when "the footsteps of
theologians shook the land." These days, ...