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Holly Meyer And David Crary
The Associated Press rights overturned this weekend as clerics across the United States reorganized their worship plans and rewrote their sermons. I praised what was done and mourned. Their religious context about historic moments — and competing messages —.
Abortion is a visceral problem for deeply divided religious Americans. Some are saddened or angry after the Dobbs v. Jackson decision of the US Supreme Court on Friday. Others are grateful and overjoyed.
At St. Paul's Cathedral in Pittsburgh, Rev. Kristubna honorably abandoned the scheduled Sunday, focused on the decision and called it "a day of great joy and blessing." He said the overturning of the almost 50-year-old Roe v. Wade was the result of the prayers and efforts of many Catholics and others.
"This law violated God's very law that all life is sacred," he said. "People cannot support abortion, but they can still remain loyal members of the Church."
Because American Catholics do not agree to the right to abortion, Stubna's Comments will be considered divisive for some. Proponents include prominent members of the faith, such as President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who are facing restrictions on communion as a result.
Not everyone sat in honor of Stubna as a whole. I can't ask why, but the Associated Press photographer saw a woman leave in the meantime. Guards estimated that the other three also left early.
The views on abortion are not only polarized within the sect. The division straddles a religious landscape.
"SCOTUS has hit women, girls, all give births, freedom terrible," said Jackie Lewis, senior minister of the multicultural Chubu University Church. Said the minister. Manhattan Protestant congregation.
During her Sunday service, she mourned the overthrow of Rho and said: We are moving. spinning. It hurts so much that I can hardly move. We are feeling the loss and pain.
According to the Pew Research Center's Religious Landscape Survey, a large number of adults of Buddhist, Hindu, historically black Protestant, Jewish, Mainline Protestant, Islamic, orthodox Christian faith. Many support legal Protestantism in all or most of the time.
Rabbi Sarah DePaolo took the time to express her disappointment and a member of the community at the start of the Sabbath worship on Friday night at the congregation ShirHa-Ma'alot in Irvine, California. I urged them to support each other. She creates space for others and scary.
"One of the most annoying things about this decision is that it claims to represent people of faith, but it does not represent our faith." Depaolo said. "It does not reflect our Jewish law. It does not reflect our tradition. It does not reflect our community."
Pew Research Center Most evangelical Protestants, Jewish witnesses, and members of the Latter-day Saint Jesus Christian Church have stated that abortion is all or most often illegal, while Catholics have commented on this issue. It is divided. ..
Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Council, sees this ruling as a moral and spiritual victory. On Sunday, he told his California congregation in the new season that this is the time of an unprecedented adoption movement.
"We are going to adopt a baby, but we are going to adopt a mother who has an abortion because she can't afford to have a baby, a pregnant mother," he said. rice field.
The Southern Baptist Convention, a member of the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, strongly supports the view against abortion. On Sunday, some ministers praised the verdict from their pulpit.
The first Baptist Concord congregation in Knoxville, Tennessee was applauded when Rev. John Mark Harrison addressed it. He invites a panel of his supporters to explain how to continue to support people with undesired pregnancies through mentorship, foster care, adoption, dealing with systematic problems, and more. did.
"There is so much anger and emotion," Harrison said. "What we need to understand is that we are not called to stimulate the right or left emotions. We go through into the gospel of Jesus Christ and are in danger. Called to serve real people in the real world of. "
At Central Church, College Station, Texas, Rev. Philip Bethancourt replied that overthrowing Law was not the goal. Did. "This is the starting point for a new chapter. Abortion must not only be illegal, but unnecessary and unthinkable."
Broadview Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas. David Rhodes, the chief pastor of Lubbock, said in an email that the court's decision was equivalent to the Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth and would resonate for years.
He clearly understands what the church members must do next, such as "serving both babies and mothers and continuing to work to elect representatives of professional life." And wanted to leave the Sunday service.
Leaders of other faiths have doubled their support for the right to abortion.
A woman preaching to Rev. Fletcher Harper at the Anglican Church of the Messiah in Secaucus, NJ should be able to make her own decision.
"Outlawing abortion is a sinful act of perpetuating male rule and female conquest," he said. "It extends national coercion to where it shouldn't have business."
During a Sunday worship at the Unitarian Universal Church in South Hills, Lebanon, Pennsylvania. , Music director Mary Pratt read aloud a statement from the sect that asserted that he was "committed to reproductive justice."
Pratt said the members were hoping for results, but were shocked and sad. "They were looking for something to remind us why we need to fight back," she said.
To begin service at the Pilgrim United Christian Church in Durham, North Carolina, verse 2 "We Shall Overcome" and Melinda Keenanwood for the Indignation It included a prayer by the pastor. Grieving and afraid of Rho's death.
"We know that this decision is measured in death, imprisonment, and life-changing trauma, as politicians are rushing to control the most painfully intimate decision. "Keanan Wood said.
A prominent black minister in Columbus, Ohio — Bishop Timothy Clark of the Church of the First God — balances with a message to the congregation on Saturday, acknowledges conflicting views on abortion, and calls on the church to show compassion. I did. ..
"I know and love people from both camps," Clark said. "They are sincere and devoted .... They really see this as a life-changing issue."
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Meyer from Nashville, Tennessee, Clary from New York I reported. Peter Smith and Jessie Wardarski from Pittsburgh, members of the AP Religious Team. Luis Andres Hennao from Princeton, NJ. Mariam Fam in Winter Park, Florida. Deepa Ballas in Los Angeles. Contributed by Tom Foreman Jr., AP writer in Winston Salem, North Carolina.
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