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At first, I mistakenly thought that this movement was limited to what its name implies. We all agree that lives matter, of whatever color. However, I recently had occasion to learn the basic principles of this organization straight from the horse's mouth, in their own words, and a good deal of it is opposed to our Tradition: to mothers being mothers (it's "patriarchal" to say that a mother should mother her own children if she is also working "for social justice", homosexuality, changing your sex and rejecting your God-given ontology is good, committed to the disruption of the traditional family.
It goes far beyond affirming the value of life, and directly adopts, in a non-Christian context, the ideas of the so-called "Far Left", university radicals aiming at tearing down Western civilization, period.
I wouldn't post this here, if I did not have good reason to think that some of us might be going that way. It is unwise in the extreme to associate ourselves with a movement that will tear down our churches and persecute us in a heartbeat.
Doubts? See for yourself.
http://blacklivesmatter.com/guiding-principles/
It goes far beyond affirming the value of life, and directly adopts, in a non-Christian context, the ideas of the so-called "Far Left", university radicals aiming at tearing down Western civilization, period.
I wouldn't post this here, if I did not have good reason to think that some of us might be going that way. It is unwise in the extreme to associate ourselves with a movement that will tear down our churches and persecute us in a heartbeat.
Doubts? See for yourself.
http://blacklivesmatter.com/guiding-principles/