Bring on the burkas! That is what I wanted to yell out as I watched Beyonce strut her stuff on stage during the VMA awards ceremony. Where I come from they will use “ogbo oto” (naked) to describe her appearance at that event. “Naked” also describes almost all the other performers at that event. It is obvious they are competing over who will deliver the bigger shock value. As a TV commentator said later, “very soon they will be having actual sexual intercourse right there on stage.” They will not be content for much longer with merely simulating it on stage as some of them did. Miley Cyrus seems to have benefitted from her lewd performance last time around, so the shock threshold has been raised. The powers behind the entertainment industry reward such risque behaviour to thumb their noses at critics.
To add insult to injury Beyonce wove in women’s liberation into her VMA shtick. She thinks she is liberated but she does not know that she is a slave to sin, a purveyor of cultural decadence. A woman in burka appears more liberated than Western women like her to wear outrageously sexy outfits. She railed against the expectations placed on women and offered up an emancipation proclamation that included the right of women to have casual sex without qualms just like men do. That is her idea of equality between the genders —- and to her a feminist is someone who believes in this kind of equality.
Beyonce is yet another example of successful Americans who offer up to the public a set of principles diametrically opposed to the ones they followed to achieve success. As far as we know, Beyonce was not having casual sex before marriage.
My best Beyonce moment is when she proudly announced her pregnancy on stage a little while ago. She said there was love growing inside of her —- or something to that effect—- as she rubbed her ” baby bump.” I was misty-eyed as I shared in the joy of her big reveal.
This same Beyonce who was so sure there was a bundle of love growing inside of her (not a blob of tissue) is now aligning with Planned Parenthood (number one abortion providers in the U.S ) to promote abortion. Rather than help other women have their own babies she is helping them to kill their babies in the womb.
Many feminists only oppose abortion when it is gender-driven. You can abort for any reason, but if you abort a child because she is a girl you will trip over one of their equality tenets. In their view, every child, male or female, should have an equal chance of being aborted.
The kind of headline and news I reprint below must fall far below Beyonce’s radar:
NYC: More Black Babies Killed by Abortion Than Born (CNSNews.com)
In 2012, there were more black babies killed by abortion (31,328) in New York City than were born there (24,758), and the black children killed comprised 42.4 per cent of the total number of abortions in the Big Apple, according to a report by the New York City Department of Health….. For Hispanic women, there were 22,917 abortions in New York City in 2012 which is 31 per cent of the total abortions….The number of non-Hispanic white abortions was 9,704, and the number of Asian and Pacific Islander abortions was 4,493.
Innocent Black babies are over-represented in the abortion statistics but it is the killing of one Black man by police that will surely mobilise our Black leaders to action.
Sadly, abortion services is now being promoted in Africa by President Barack Obama’s administration. Is the black race not at risk of decimation especially when you factor HIV-AIDS, wars, starvation into the equation?
The Biblical basis for pro-life public policy advocacy is given below:
God gives life before birth and cares for the unborn
For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.” (Psalm 139:13-16).“
God has a purpose and calling for individuals even before we are born.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5)
“For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.” (Luke 1:15) –
