By Cal Zastrow, September 1, 2011
“Live Free or Die” is a superb State Motto, as is “Under God, the People Rule.” I mean no offense to New Hampshire or South Dakota, but Ohio wins my contest for the best State Motto by quoting Scripture (Matthew 19:26).
Our family spent last week helping to launch the Ohio Personhood Amendment ballot-access petition drive and campaign. Dr. Patrick Johnston and Personhood Ohio www.personhoodohio.com are not content to regulate the murdering of preborn babies in hopes that it will someday go away. No. They recognize that all preborn babies are to be protected by love and by law. Here is the wording for their proposed Personhood Amendment to the State constitution:
Insert: Article 1, Section 1(b). Person defined:
The word “person” or “persons” applies to every human being at every stage of the biological development of that human being or human organism, including fertilization.
Now then, who can read English and not understand this? Child-killing in Ohio has never been “legal” because nobody can truly legalize what God forbids. Beloved pro-lifers in Buckeyeland should just recognize the humanity and personhood of all preborn children and protect them. Unlawful and incorrect court opinions like Roe v. Wade are to be ignored by the States while they uphold the law and protect innocent people.
While preparing the form and petition for Ohio, I was angered at their 1,600+ page “law” regulating petitioning and ballot-access issues. That statute is twice as long as the entire Holy Bible! After wading through that, we printed up a form and started petitioning.
Our family enjoys petitioning because there are so many opportunities to witness for Jesus and the humanity of preborn children. We daily get to educate people, especially the ones who claim to be Christians but support some or all choices to murder, especially in cases of “rape.” We tell them that innocent children should not be executed for the crimes of their fathers. We tell them about Rebecca Kiessling (www.rebeccakiessling.com) and Juda Myers (http://www.choices4life.org/) and how wonderful their lives are, even though their lives began after rape.
People tell us all kinds of things when we ask them if they are voters and will sign a petition for a pro-life amendment. Here are just three from last week:
“I’m with you. Our grandson is adopted.”
“My daughter has had two of them (abortions). It messed her up. She aint right in the head now.”
And my favorite: “Oh yes! Not only will I sign but I’ll pray for abortion to end.” This was from an elderly lady. She went on to tell me how God answered her prayers for the repentance and salvation of her brother. “He called me recently, very frightened, wanting to talk right away about God. He had just had an arm of fire come out of a wall and knock him down before hearing an audible voice, ‘You are going to hell if you do not change!’”
That’s one way our Heavenly Father answered prayer for somebody to come to know the fear of the Lord. Come on!
The babies won at the Friday night high school football game and the Saturday afternoon tractor pull. So many people were eager to sign our petitions!
We had the great honor of visiting and petitioning at New Beginnings Ministries (http://www.newbeginningsmin.com/) on Sunday morning in Warsaw, Ohio. Pastor Bill Dunfee has been a precious Christian brother to me for years. He understands the spiritual war between Christ and the devil, and his duty where he lives. There is is no abortuary in their town or county, but they drive hours to Columbus or Akron to minister on the streets in front of killing centers there. There is a hellish strip club in their county that they have been rebuking and evangelizing outside of for the last five years. Besides leading people to Christ, they’ve seen the business at the local strip joint greatly dwindle. Hell fights back with death threats, vandalism, and violence. The owner of the vile establishment pickets the church and hires his strippers to join him in harrassing families who show up at church on Sundays. Far from being intimidated, the believers and the pastor thank them for coming out to hear the Word of the Lord! Pastors and churches like this are why God will stop baby-murdering in Ohio, and I’m thrilled to serve alongside of them.
