Hailed as “the Upton Sinclair of this generation” by her Religious Right elders, Lila Rose has been at the forefront of right-wing video guerrilla activism, targeting groups like Planned Parenthood and then releasing selectively edited footage designed to promote her anti-abortion crusade.
Rose, who believes that all abortions ought to be performed in public, has been the guest on James Robison’s “Life Today” television program for the last few days, where the two discussed the need for Christians to take the lead in efforts to outlaw abortion with Robison warning that “the Enemy of life, the Enemy of truth” has politicized the issue in order to intimidate Christians into remaining silent, as Rose declared that it was time for the Church to rise up because “this is our nation”:
Robison: Don’t you think it is a tactic of the enemy of life, the enemy of truth, to try to get something politicized, even though it is spiritual, moral, it is a matter of life, if they can get it politicized then they think they’ve discounted, dismissed, or written off or discouraged people in the faith community and those who are committed to family from being involved because it’s become a political issue. Don’t you think that has kept a lot of people out of the fray, so to speak, and from speaking, that’s why a lot of people are not even registered or involved? They just say, look at all the dirty stuff that goes on politically so they stay out of it and it just gets worse. Don’t you think that’s the biggest mistake believers can make is to stay out of the battle for life and not be involved in choosing our leaders and insists that we make the right decisions and the right choices?
Rose: It’s crazy what we’ve allowed. So I think now more than ever the church does need to rise up. We need leaders of faith to stand up and say, “Enough is enough.” This is our nation. This is a nation founded under God for the protection of human life because they are endowed by their creator with these rights and we need to remind people this is a country that is based on Judeo-Christian values. That the reason that we’re great is because we value human life; we see human beings as being made in the image of God, human beings as being stamped with that beautiful mark of the creator God, and we need to remind people of that otherwise our nation won’t succeed.
