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Pastor: Harris and Democrats Use ‘Marxist Tactics’ and ‘Division’ to Promote Abortion, Racism

September 5, 2024

In January, Vice President Kamala Harris launched her nationwide abortion circuit — the so-called “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour. As Mary Szoch, Family Research Council’s director of the Center for Human Dignity said previously, the reality is that “Harris’s tour championing ‘reproductive freedom’ isn’t about freedom at all.” Rather, it’s yet another example of how the vice president has chosen “to use her power to promote killing unborn children.” Now, as the official Democratic presidential nominee, it seems nothing has changed as the Harris-Walz campaign makes abortion their top priority.

On Tuesday, the Harris-Walz duo kicked off yet another tour, what appears to be an extension of January’s “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms,” but this time it’s being done by bus. The nationwide “bus tour of death,” as guest host Jody Hice deemed it on Wednesday’s episode of “Washington Watch,” is simply the latest in the Democrat’s agenda to push “taxpayer-funded abortion on demand for any reason up until birth in all 50 states.”

Hice noted that “abortion advocacy is not only extreme. It’s also racist.” To further discuss this harsh reality, he was joined by John Amanchukwu, author and pastor of the Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, North Carolina. The pastor agreed with Hice’s assessment about what this abortion tour really is and referred to the free abortions and vasectomies that were offered outside of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) only a matter of weeks ago. “To have that set up at the DNC,” he said, “and now transversing the country [promoting abortion] really says something about the Democratic Party that [we] already know.” It’s not just a “bus tour of death,” but “a party of death.”

While death appears to be a prominent theme in much of what Democrats promote, Amanchukwu pointed out that it’s not the only theme. In fact, it’s understanding the history of abortion that reveals the grim reality that this industry is inherently and flagrantly racist. “Margaret Sanger,” the founder of Planned Parenthood, “wanted to exterminate the Negro population,” the pastor noted.

He explained how a 1939 letter Sanger wrote to Doctor Clarence C.J. Gamble provided proof that she wanted to do so,
“and that she would use the black charismatic preacher to convince other blacks to abort their babies.” However, “What we’re seeing right now with the Harris and Walz campaign” is that “they’re only furthering the plan and the strategy of Margaret Sanger.” According to Amanchukwu, “If you are pro-abortion, you’re also pro-racism.” Now is the “time for Americans to really understand what that truly says about a political party who seeks to do” such things.

As Amanchukwu contended, Democrats attempt to convince black voters “that they support them,” and that “blacks are supposed to go along with that [narrative] for the sake of identity politics.” With this mindset, he added, “Because I’m a black man, I should vote for someone who looks like me, regardless of the fact that they want to kill as many black babies as possible.” But statistically speaking, “20 million black babies are missing since the inception of Roe v. Wade.” So really, “[A]ny Christian who casts a vote for the Democratic Party” is “not doing that based upon the Bible. They’re doing that based upon secular humanism and post-modernism,” he argued, which is based on “[a] new Christ and a new Bible and a new doctrine of the faith,” but “not based upon [true] Christian principles.”

“How did this happen?” Hice asked. “How does someone like Margaret Sanger come into the picture like she did” while at the same time using “black pastors to push that message forward?” Historically, Amanchukwu replied, “[I]t was the Democratic Party that did not want to end slavery. It was the Democratic Party that drafted the Jim Crow laws. It was the Democratic Party that voted against the Civil Rights Act,” and “with strong support from the Democratic Party, … Planned Parenthood receives nearly $500 to $600 million a year in federal funding.” Ultimately, it’s looking back at the history of the Democratic Party that helps us understand the tragic state it remains in today.

“Why are so many blacks gullible?” Amanchukwu wondered. Why are they supporting a political party that seeks to destroy them?” It stands to reason that “Harris [can’t] care less about black Americans … and Americans across the board.” What it boils down to is that “now we have buses going around the country [promoting], in the name of protecting … ‘democracy,’ [that] someone has to die. Some baby must have their limbs ripped from their body. Some baby must have their skull crushed.” It’s “insane and barbaric.”

The pastor pleaded, “We don’t want to support a political party, nor should we, that seeks to do these things.” Because it doesn’t stop with abortion. As he conveyed, “[I]f [they] can’t kill him in the womb, [they] turn them into transgenders in the classroom” by pushing “gender theory and queer theory upon them [to] confuse them.” It’s the truth of the current Democratic agenda, he insisted. And as we consider this, it’s crucial to “know that God is not the author of confusion.”

Amanchukwu continued, “We know that Satan … is the author of confusion. He’s also the deceiver of the brethren.” And at the end of the day, “the Democratic Party offers nothing to America.” But this doesn’t change the fact that “so many people have been duped and hoodwinked,” which “is why now, more than ever, the church must use her voice and speak up.” Church leaders can no longer be “on the fence,” he asserted. “[P]laying these soft, weak games of not taking a political stance under the false notion that ‘the Bible is not political,’” because “the Bible is political.” And any claims otherwise are “liberal and progressive” lies.

“Absolutely,” Hice agreed. The Bible “addresses all these issues.” But because this is true, then the question is: Why are some issues put in the spotlight while others are swept under the rug? According to Amanchukwu, it’s about the “race baiters” who are driven by “Marxist tactics.”

“[W]ithin Marxism,” he said, “there must be chaos. There must be division. There must be blacks versus white, the rich versus the poor, the patriarchy versus the matriarchy, the LGBTQIA+ community versus those who are straight. Marxism thrives through division.” There are many “individuals out there” who “sweep [important issues] under the rug because it doesn’t fit the narrative. … And so, these things are strategies,” and “the Left is waiting for the next opportunity … so that they can rip our country apart.”

And “to everyone out there,” Amanchukwu urged, “we need to … listen with the mind of Christ. … We must use the fruit of the spirit … to understand rightly what is going on and be discerning.” Specifically for pastors who choose negligence, “blood will be on your hands if you fail to preach the whole counsel of the word of God. If you fail to point out the error of these current administrations, … every man shall stand before the judgment seat of Christ to give an answer of what he’s done in his body, whether it be good or bad.”

“The Apostle Paul says we persuade men,” he concluded. “We persuade men knowing that this danger is coming. And so, it’s imperative now more than ever, that pastors tell their congregations to vote biblical values. Not based upon personalities, but biblical values. And no, Jesus is not on the ballot, but He’s going to hold us accountable of how we vote.”

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.



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