Pro-life strike (abortion boycott) mission: To purify our prayers and other pro-life efforts, and to make a concrete difference, we refuse to fund the abortion industry. We boycott corporate abortion funding, and hold back abortion taxes. We pray for life; we will not pay for death!
Among the plethora of pro-life campaigns, ProLifeStrike.org has a couple of unique features. Or unique omissions. For one thing, it doesn't ask for monetary support. For another, the implementation is not contingent upon any outside person or circumstance.
The focus of some pro-life campaigns is to secure legislative protection for the pre-born, or to raise their legal status by means of petitions, phone calls, letters and emails to a variety of government officials, in the hope that these officials will respond. Others focus upon the voting and election process, in the hope of moving party machinery and persuading voters. Others target the judicial angle, seeking to win in court, in the hope of persuading judges and juries. Still others seek to reach bishops and pastors in hope of getting them to teach and preach the message as they ought. And still other campaigns go public with billboards, radio and TV spots, and such, in the hope of persuading the "man in the street".
This is not to disparage any of these noble efforts, nor to minimize their importance. But you'll notice the pattern - in each case, success depends upon moving or persuading someone outside the organization. The locus of control is outside, depending mostly upon people who are not currently on board, so to speak. The pattern, in other words, is: send us money, so we can run this campaign to get these outside people to do the right thing and save the babies.
ProLifeStrike.org is not so. The locus of control is you. You who are reading this.
You don't need to persuade a legislator or judge. You don't need to send money. You don't need to make a phone call, sign a petition, or write a letter. You can do it yourself. You can decide right now, even before you leave this web page. Decide what? Do what?
It's simple, really. Just realize that your tax money is helping to fuel the slaughter. Then, just decide that you yourself mustn't add more fuel. Decide not to feed the dragon any more. Decide to hold back your tax money. It's just the right thing to do.
O, there is one thing you may want to do first: Pray.
The pagan Roman Empire had conquered the world and was ruling with an iron fist. Caesar was an arrogant autocrat who claimed divine authority. The Pharisees thought they had Jesus cornered with the question about paying the hateful Roman tax - a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" unanswerable conundrum. Jesus, recognizing their duplicity, told them to "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." (Matt. 22:15-22)
This passage has been invoked ad nauseum as an excuse to jettison all scruples over supporting human government, no matter how wicked and murderous. But is this a valid exegesis of the text? Ought this Gospel silence our conscience on the matter of tax funded abortion? Does Jesus really want us to docilely underwrite the abortion industry with our taxes?
I write as an American, and write now to fellow Americans. Who, precisely, is our 'Caesar'? What human authority do we live under in the United States? Is this not a Republic, established in lawful order by certain founding documents? Our Declaration of Independence, by which our founding Fathers created a new nation, contains these familiar words (emphasis added)...
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
This is the legally binding contract upon which our government is based. With no need to comment upon the Roman Empire or other governments past or present, the above clearly indicates that the government of the United States exists to secure basic human rights, the right to Life being primary. Moreover, the legitimate authority of this government derives "from the consent of the governed". This, my friends, is our 'Caesar'. This is the human authority to which we owe allegiance.
Notice also that government officials are themselves bound by the terms of this contract. To the extent that they abrogate those terms, they are breaking the law. When bureaucratic measures conflict with the proper ends, it becomes the vigilant citizens' right and duty to oppose them. That's what the contract demands.
Surely the tax funded slaughter of innocent humans is a breach of the contract. Can anyone honestly deny this?
Therefore, Americans must stop paying the abortion tax for two reasons: Out of fear of God and obedience to God's Law (render to God), and also out of a patriotic duty to our Republic (our 'Caesar'). We must indeed render to Caesar, and that means we must oppose tax despotism and insist upon a lawful form of governance, which secures basic human rights.
