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Two items of note in the political news for today:

1. Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade.

Today marks the 31st anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court Ruling that legalized abortion throughout the United States. Although a ban on partial birth abortions was pushed through Congress and signed by President Bush this year, the current status of abortions basically remains unchanged since this decision 31 years ago. Legalized abortion is a blight on our society and on our nation.

One of the most outspoken critics of abortion was Mother Teresa. During the National Prayer Breakfast in 1995, she uttered these wonderful words about abortion:

"I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.

And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion?

As always, we must persuade her with love and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

Jesus gave even His life to love us. So, the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love, that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts.

By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world.

The father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.

This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion."

Words to heed on this 31st anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. Please join me in praying for forgiveness for our nation and for an end to the killing of unborn children in America.

2. Gay Marriage in Georgia

On Wednesday, a Republican legislator introduced a resolution into the General Assembly in Georgia calling for a constitutional amendment to define marriage in Georgia as "one man and one woman." State law currently defines marriage in this way, but a constitutional amendment would ensure that future legislative action would not erode marriage in this state. Additionally, this would prevent Georgia from having to recognize gay marriages or same-sex unions approved in other states. If the resolution passes, we will have the oppportunity to vote on this proposed constitutional amendment in the general election in November.