Abortion: the civil rights movement of today?

I just got back tonight (Sunday evening) from my roommates church (The Urban Refuge). They had a gathering of sorts to look back into Americas past to learn from it as we look forward. It was fun to have a black church come and share their pasion for the Lord. The music was totally different and totally awesome! The pastor spoke of the segregation that he experienced as a boy in the 50's and 60's. It was painful to listen to the travesties that he experienced. 

As the pastor spoke I am reminded how big of an issue the civil rights movement was for our parents and grandparents. Men and women took to the streets to lovingly stand up for what they believed in. Pastor John Piper came out with a book/documentary (see below) earlier this year to retell his tale in the midst of the civil rights movement and how it has effected him. I believe, like the generations before, there is still injustice in the world. Like the civil rights movement before we now face a new injustice of the mass killing of unborn children. 

What strikes me as interesting was how the deep south was so adamant that blacks were inferior to them. But as history would show this bigotry would prove false. I also believe that 20 years from now we will look back on all the innocent lives that were taken and morn of our ignorance and indifference. 

May God revel to us how precious every life is (black, white, born, and unborn). May we have the conviction to stand up for what is right. 

-Robert 

The Urban Refuge