Daily Verse | Matthew 5:37
“Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.”
Wednesday’s Reading: Matthew 8-11
We’re already to the first hump day of October.
Somehow I got Herschel Walker’s autograph when he was a member of University of Georgia football team and eventually won the Heisman trophy as a junior in 1982. I was hoping to find it and post a picture of it, but the photo below will have to do. He went on to play for 12 seasons in the NFL after playing for three in the now-defunct USFL.
Now he’s the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, opposing incumbent Democrat “Reverend” Raphael Warnock. I place Warnock’s titular title in scare quotes because he’s a “pro-choice pastor.”
I can’t tell you whether Warnock is “saved” or not. His relationship with God is between him and God, but I can’t see how he can logically hold that position with what scripture teaches about the value that God places on human life. Hence the scare quotes.
Herschel Walker, on the other hand, claims he is a pro-life candidate who opposes abortion with no exceptions. He’s a first time political candidate and a friend of Donald J. Trump, who encouraged him to run. He also claims to be a Christian, but I can’t vouch for his faith any more than I can Warnock’s.
Walker is virtually in a dead heat with Warnock, which is important because a “Walker victory in Georgia is crucial to Republicans’ chances of retaking the Senate majority.” Earlier the Washington Examiner reported that “the race between Walker and Warnock remains too close to predict, with polls alternating back and forth between which candidate is leading the other. The recent polling that shows Walker (47%) leading Warnock (44%) is a reversal from the 3-point lead Warnock held over his Republican challenger in July.”
But, because it’s October, SURPRISE!
The uber-leftist The Daily Beast reported that an anonymous woman alleges that Walker paid for her to have an abortion when they were dating back in 2009.
‘Pro-Life’ Herschel Walker Paid for Girlfriend’s Abortion
… A woman who asked not to be identified out of privacy concerns told The Daily Beast that after she and Walker conceived a child while they were dating in 2009 he urged her to get an abortion. The woman said she had the procedure and that Walker reimbursed her for it.
She supported these claims with a $575 receipt from the abortion clinic, a “get well” card from Walker, and a bank deposit receipt that included an image of a signed $700 personal check from Walker.
The woman said there was a $125 difference because she “ball-parked” the cost of an abortion after Googling the procedure and added on expenses such as travel and recovery costs.
Amazing that this story is just breaking now. Why didn’t the woman come forward earlier?
Asked if Walker ever expressed regret for the decision, the woman said Walker never had. Asked why she came forward, the woman pointed to Walker’s hardline anti-abortion position.
“I just can’t with the hypocrisy anymore,” she said. “We all deserve better.”
The ‘hypocrisy’ is so overwhelming that I’m willing to anonymously accuse a pro-life candidate who happens to be threatening the Democrats’ control of the US Senate.
Walker immediately denied the claim as an “outright lie” and threatened to sue The Daily Beast for defamation.
Look, I don’t know if what the woman alleges is true or not. I also don’t know just how a “Sen. Herschel Walker (R-GA)” would behave in the US Senate. But one thing I know is that we are in an existential fight for the survival of this country, which is being overrun by true fascists and moral deadbeats.
With that in mind, I honestly don’t give a flying political rip whether or not Walker did what he’s accused of doing 13 years ago. Yeah, if he did it, it was immoral and that sucks, but it’s irrelevant. I’m concerned about now.
The Democrats are the political equivalent of the mob or a drug cartel. I don’t trust them as far as I can throw them. Any complaints or accusations against Walker and anyone who supports him falls on my deaf ears. They have no standing with me to complain about corruption or hypocrisy or any other matter of moral judgment.
If I had to choose between a divorced ‘pastor’ who supports broad access to abortion with no limitations and was accused of deliberately hurting his ex during a domestic dispute, or a divorced former athlete who opposes abortion with no exceptions and also claims to be a Christian but hasn’t lived up to that billing either—I’ll go with the guy who opposes abortion every time.
Unfortunately, I won’t be voting in Georgia’s midterms. But spare me the faux indignation coming from the Left.