By Judie Brown
In the 1960s the well-known comedian Flip Wilson memorialized the phrase “The devil made me do it!” He was very funny, and the phrase caught on.
But today the devil is making people do things that are anything but funny.
When renowned commentator Charlie Kirk was brutally murdered, one New York Times correspondent had the gall to suggest that he was “a symbol of the toxic culture we’re in.” It is comments like this that spew forth the poison we consider toxic. But perhaps journalists like him are not familiar with the meaning of that word. Toxic language is harsh, malicious, or harmful to others. Kirk lived and spoke as a man who was anything but those things.
Perhaps the devil made that reporter write those demeaning comments.
We also see that some folks suggest that God got it wrong when He created human beings as either male or female. Such panderers of the evil one suggest that gender is fluid, meaning human beings can be transgender, nonbinary, or gender-expansive. Anyone who accepts this train of thought has lost touch with basic biological facts, not to mention reason itself.
But the deceptive demon does not stop there. When the federal government cut funding for Planned Parenthood, another agency of evil, some states stepped in to provide the lost dollars so that Planned Parenthood did not have to skip a beat on the trail to providing abortion, contraception, and so forth.
In related news, 21 state attorneys general told a federal appeals court “to uphold an injunction blocking the law President Trump signed to defund Planned Parenthood.” While the court ultimately allowed the defunding to take place, the stage was set for a battle that could go all the way to the Supreme Court.
Planned Parenthood is not cowed by truth, by court opinions, or by anything that stands in the way of its bloody agenda. In Ohio, where the 24-hour waiting period law requires patients to wait prior to aborting their children, Planned Parenthood’s medical director Dr. Sharon Liner said, “We see the effects of the 24-hour delay on patients every day. This medically unnecessary waiting period puts a strain on patients, some of whom must arrange for multiple-day stays to access abortion care and, by design, even prevents some people in need from accessing abortion entirely.”
Such rhetoric reminds us that the devil is in the details. Denying the fact that abortion kills a person provides folks like Dr. Liner with a bully pulpit for advocacy for committing abortion regardless of the facts in each case. “Abortion care” is, after all, an oxymoron. In this case, the care is killing, even when some deny the facts.
In the final analysis, organizations like Planned Parenthood are committed to doing whatever it takes to kill people. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, PP relinquished its federal distinction as an “essential community provider” because its staff care more about resuming abortion than they do about retaining the safety net that federal standards provide for healthcare entities.
Again, the devil is in the details. There is nothing safe about abortion as far as the baby or her mother is concerned, so why bother with meeting the standards!
Medical professionals appear to be sliding further down the slippery slope every day. For example, Wesley Smith has written about those who wish to conjoin the practice of euthanasia with the practice of organ harvesting and opines, “We are far down the road of objectifying the bodies of suicidal people to permit unethical acts.”
Amid this social mishmash of redefining gender, assuaging the truth about abortion, and taking the lives of the suicidal and ailing with a perverted purpose comes a note of rational observation. Those of us who speak the truth are not haters but lovers. And we agree with J. K. Rowling, who said, “It isn’t hate to speak the truth.”
The devil detests it! And we can only pray and work toward a world that is no longer guided by those who say in sincerity, “The devil made me do it.”