But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, “Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.”

 Mark 10:24

 I suppose it was bound to happen sometime.  Planned Parenthood is now trying to turn the tables on its religious opponents by appointing a “chaplain,” Ignacio Castuera, and having him meet with various organizations.  It is a move that makes sense on paper: try to show that the “right” doesn’t have the market cornered on religion by staking your own claim to it.  Finding a front man would be a problem, but for the fact that in the more liberal denominations, you can literally find some “priest” or “pastor” or “reverend” who will deny just about any Truth you like and argue that “I know this is what Jesus said, but here’s what He really meant.” 

 But the idea of a chaplain for America’s largest promoter of abortion simply takes the cake.  And to hear him talk is even more bizarre.    I really don’t understand how the following statement can come from the mouth of anyone who knows anything about Jesus, but I think it does illustrate a few important points.  In it, Casteura is remarking on the fact that few, if anyone, wanted to talk to him in his new position:

 "The closer Jesus got to the cross, the smaller the crowds got," the chaplain said. "This is pretty close to the cross because [pro-abortion] people have to take derision, ostracism, all that."

 If there was law of physics that stated that the amount of force exerted upon the inside of one's skull cavity is directly proportional to the amount of hypocrisy leaving one's mouth, surely the good reverend would take half of Los Angeles with him when he exploded.

 Neo-nazis and white supremacists face "derision, ostracism, all that" all the time too.  In fact, Adolf Hitler is one of the most hated men of in history.  I hear Jeffery Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy weren’t too popular either.  So, using Casteura's logic, that fact puts them all quite close to God. 

 Then again, perhaps subliminally that is precisely what he would like to see.  After all, this poor, persecuted little pearl is actually arguing that God would support an organization that has contributed to the murder of over 7 times the number of people Hitler could claim in his prime!  I’m supposed to feel that to refuse to meet with him is to persecute Christ!?  Perhaps we should throw in a little warm, fuzzy feeling for Josephs Mengele or Stalin while we’re at it?  I don’t think so. 

 What is really happening here is nothing more than an attempt at blatant emotional manipulation, and is in fact an insult to all men and women of faith.

 The most basic question with abortion isn’t quality of life.  It isn’t even the “rights” of the mother.  It is the humanity of the “fetus.”  If the baby should be considered human at conception then all other questions must be framed in light of that one fact.  And yet it is that one fact that Planned Parenthood is most desperate to avoid.

 By draping abortion and Planned Parenthood in religious language, the “chaplain” is defacto diverting attention from the real issues by suggesting that there are no religious grounds for questioning either, and they hope that we’ll just take his word for it since he and Christ have so much in common.  In fact, Casteura goes a step farther to imply that abortion is something that Christ Himself would have wanted and promoted.  (Who knows, perhaps Christ would have been too busy opposing Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court to make it to Jerusalem?) Nothing could be further from the truth, and I throw down the gauntlet to Casteura and his crowd to show me a single shred of scriptural evidence that Christ advocates anything like the killing of even a single inconvenient or unwanted child.

It is an affront to all men and women of faith in that it first assumes that most of them are nothing more than mindless boobs who will automatically follow anyone who asks, “What would Jesus do?” and mentions the Bible.  It is an insult to anyone who as ever read the Bible for what it is, especially when men like Casteura start wielding the inevitable hermeneutical orcish battle axe against scripture in order to further what amounts to an American Holocaust. 

 Christians, in America and elsewhere, must understand that it really is an all or nothing issue; it allows no more wiggle room for “erring brothers” than if we had confronted African chattel slavery in the 1800s.  The church needs to be willing to face the likes of Casteura head-on and see them for what they are: men who are willing to not only butcher the truth in their feel-good pursuit of a god-like humanity but will even sanctify the murder of innocent children for the crime of being inconvenient.