{"id":1213,"date":"2024-12-15T13:27:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idahochooseslife.org\/commentary\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2024-12-17T01:10:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T01:10:48","slug":"a-tale-of-two-peoples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idahochooseslife.org\/commentary\/2024\/12\/15\/a-tale-of-two-peoples\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Peoples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Minnesota native Michele Bachmann was our guest speaker at this year\u2019s Christmas Dinner.  She delivered a powerful talk, an analysis of the practical impact associated with choosing to accept the gift of Life from our Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Idaho and Minnesota provide the wise observer with a powerful contrast, as the peoples of each state are on very different paths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minnesota once was a leader in protecting pro-Life values \u2013 despite its historical embrace of more liberal policies.  In fact, Minnesota was once ahead of Idaho in providing basic protections for preborn children.  They were ahead of us in requiring parental consent for abortions.  They were ahead of Idaho in denying taxpayer funds for abortions.  They enacted a ban on Partial Birth Abortions before Idaho did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you may have heard, Minnesota is on a radically different path these days.  These days, it is among the nation\u2019s most radical states in actually promoting<\/em> abortion and the mutilation of tender children under the guise of \u201ctransgender medical treatment\u201d.  This hard turn toward the Culture of Death has come at a price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people of Minnesota have turned to inept leadership \u2026 people like Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison. No objective observer of this past presidential election could deny that Tim Walz is pretty much a dufus.  Thank the Lord he got nowhere near the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contrast Minnesota\u2019s foolish leadership with the high caliber of leaders nurturing Idaho\u2019s future: Governor Brad Little and Attorney General Raul Labrador, to name just two.  We are blessed to have such competent, morally sound leaders; our legislature and executive branch are loaded with rich examples of quality leadership that will help Idaho families for many years to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I submit to you that each of the states is harvesting the curses and blessings promised by the Lord at the very beginning of the Biblical story of His saving grace:  In his last speech before the Israelites, Moses says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                \u201cI have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.  Now choose life, so that you and your children may live <\/em><\/strong>\u2026.\u201d  (Dt. 30:19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many falsely believe that the abortion issue is some kind of distraction to the \u201creal issues\u201d \u2013 guns, taxes, crime.  They are mistaken.  The question of refusing God\u2019s gift of Life is at the very heart of nearly every problem and challenge we face as a society.  He is, after all, our Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It may seem like the contrast between a Walz and Little has nothing whatsoever to do with abortion.  But I submit it has everything to do abortion.  Immature and corrupt leadership is part of the curse associated with rejecting God\u2019s commands.  And that sorry leadership reaches into all aspects of Minnesota\u2019s future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact is, Minnesota is a state in serious decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It now ranks 35th<\/sup> among the states in population decline.  It ranks 25th<\/sup> in the nation for reading scores among 4th<\/sup> graders in the public school system \u2013 where once it could take pride in leading the nation in literacy.  Minnesota ranks 33rd<\/sup> in the country for new business start-ups.  Net farm income is projected to decline some $2.7 billion in that state over 2023.  And Minnesota ranks 40th<\/sup> in growth, as measured by the state\u2019s GDP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are all signs that Minnesota is reaping what it has sowed.  The embrace of a culture of Death does not just affect the tender preborn. It carries with it an increasingly severe judgment that affects everyone in that society. Judgment is inescapable and certain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank God Idaho is on a radically different path.  We are being blessed by that same God \u2026 by those same precious promises as we continue to battle to rebuild a Culture of Life in Idaho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of the Defense of Life Act \u2026 Idaho stands as a light to the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Updated photo of the state of things in Minnesota:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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