Super Bowl; abortion; rebel flag

Super Bowl

I wonder if the Dallas Cowboys players and coaches were watching former Cowboys coach Wade Phillips and player DeMarcus Ware in Super Bowl 50 and finally realizing that their only way to win a Super Bowl is with another team.

It will never happen with the current Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones. If Super Bowl 50 didn’t drive that point home, nothing will.

Abortion

Increasingly, America has denied the basic rights of Christians (and others) who cannot conscientiously sin against their convictions. (See Feb. 4 commentary “Even pharmacists should be allowed their religious liberty.”)

We know that abortion is the deliberate killing of an innocent life in the womb. How can a state, nation, city or company seek to force someone to violate his or her conscience and do what he or she believes is a sin against God?

No one has this right! God has not given any institution, state or company a “right” to require a sincere individual to sin against his conscience!

If a pharmacist, a pharmacy assistant, a doctor or a nurse objects to giving birth control pills, condoms or any other object to another because of his conscientiously held beliefs against sin, that person has the right to obey God rather than a human institution.

Rebel flag

I was dumbstruck by Calvin Allen’s comment in a Feb. 6 story, “Pro-Confederate group to buzz Stock Show with battle flag flyover.”

Allen was quoted as saying that the Rebel battle flag represents “smaller government, not the slavery issue.” He added: “They want to bring up the slavery issue all the time, but it wasn’t really that big of a situation.”

It wasn’t that big of situation to Calvin Allen. His people weren’t enslaved for hundreds of years.

Perhaps Allen might read the Declaration of Causes for Secession and see if he can still say these same things with a straight face.

This story was originally published February 15, 2016 at 5:43 PM with the headline "Super Bowl; abortion; rebel flag."