{"id":7143,"date":"2023-02-09T14:49:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T19:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7143"},"modified":"2023-02-09T15:13:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T20:13:11","slug":"goin-with-that-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7143","title":{"rendered":"Goin&#8217; With That Majority!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, here is how NPR and most common-brained Americans seem to&nbsp;think and speak:&nbsp; &#8220;Well, duh, whatever the majority wants is right!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several polls from the last few years show that a majority of Americans do not support banning abortion. For example a recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/05\/03\/most-americans-say-supreme-court-should-uphold-roe-post-abc-poll-finds\/\">poll&nbsp;<\/a>from ABC\/Washington Post shows that 54% think&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade&nbsp;<\/em>should be upheld and only 28% say it should be overturned; 18% said they had no opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unpopularity of overturning&nbsp;<em>Roe<\/em>&nbsp;isn&#8217;t a new finding, either. Polling from CNN&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/21\/politics\/cnn-poll-abortion-roe-v-wade\/index.html\">going back to 1989<\/a>&nbsp;shows that the percentage of Americans who support overturning&nbsp;<em>Roe<\/em>&nbsp;has never risen above 36%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So right now, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/05\/03\/1096094942\/roe-wade-overturned-what-happens-next\">Supreme Court<\/a>&nbsp;is set to change a ruling that most Americans want to keep in place. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/05\/04\/1096154028\/the-movement-against-abortion-rights-is-nearing-its-apex-but-it-began-way-before\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/05\/04\/1096154028\/the-movement-against-abortion-rights-is-nearing-its-apex-but-it-began-way-before<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, duh, the majority wanted slavery, but they were <em>wrong<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is <em>right<\/em> is not always what the majority thinks is right!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dumb asses!&nbsp; Check out the Word of God.&nbsp; We are <em>conceived<\/em> in sin!&nbsp; The soul was present at conception!&nbsp; And He died for those little ones <em>in the womb<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Repent from butchering those whom He did create in His image!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We don\u2019t look to &#8220;majority opinion&#8221; to discover Right from Wrong!\u00a0 We look to God and His law!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We Christians, indeed, do not believe in democracy as a restraint upon personal living and service.&nbsp; It is not the majority opinion which rules the day, our lives, our moral and political behavior.&nbsp; It is God&#8217;s law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So buck up and stand for justice!&nbsp;&nbsp; Oppose tyranny, Lawlessness, and murder.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do not stand around and allow manstealing (as many Americans did a century and-a-half ago) or murder (5 decades now since the Roe travesty).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 Feb., 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, here is how NPR and most common-brained Americans seem to&nbsp;think and speak:&nbsp; &#8220;Well, duh, whatever the majority wants is right!&#8221; Several polls from the last few years show that a majority of Americans do not support banning abortion. For example a recent&nbsp;poll&nbsp;from ABC\/Washington Post shows that 54% think&nbsp;Roe v. Wade&nbsp;should be upheld and only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,33,24,23,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7147,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions\/7147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}