Ray Comfort, Kirk Cameron's BFF, is touting a DVD called "180," which he credits with turning hardcore pro-choicers into equally hardcore opponents of abortion. Well, earlier this month a father at Wagoner High School outside Tulsa got word that this DVD was being passed out there--and wasn't happy with its suggestion that abortion is no different from the Holocaust. But Comfort tells OneNewsNow that the real issue is that anyone who's upset about it is just upset about the gospel message.
"She said that she had seen a DVD in school that basically said if you have an abortion you are no better than the Nazi Germans who killed the Jews during the Holocaust and that you'll go to hell," he accounts.
But Comfort, a Christian evangelist of The Way of the Master, advises that step-father to view the movie himself.
"There's no way we said that. He's just not speaking the truth," the producer asserts. "180movie.com has now been watched by 3,032,000 people. It's a free viewing, and nowhere on the movie does it say anything like you're going to hell if you have an abortion. He needs to watch it himself and listen very carefully."
Angus also claimed the film was graphic, but Comfort reports that only a few have complained about the content.
"It's probably not the Holocaust footage that upsets them; it's the gospel message in there because it speaks to the fact that we've sinned against God and we all need a Savior," the evangelist concludes.
You'll notice that OneNewsNow didn't bother to link to Fox 23's piece. That's because if you actually
watched the bloody story, you'd see that the parent, Marty Angus, wasn't upset with the Christian message. He just didn't like that something this graphic would be handed out without him or other parents knowing about it. Unfortunately, I can't get the video to embed here for some reason--but you can read all about it
here.
Mind you, this is one of the reddest parts of the nation we're talking about here--an area where, as the saying goes, Democrats and non-fundies get shot. So if it went too far even for here, you know there's something amiss.
As many of you know, I used to be anti-abortion myself, but renounced the pro-life movement (though I'm still very much on the fence about abortion in general) after I could no longer stand its staggering lack of respect for privacy and human dignity. Even when I was pro-life, comparisons between abortion and the Holocaust always made me queasy. And for all of Comfort's hand-wringing, one fact is pretty stark. The word "abortion" is not even mentioned until 18:40 into the video--until then, it's almost all about Hitler and the Holocaust. But don't take my word for it--see for yourself on YouTube. Oh, and while you're at it, pile up the dislikes.
I'd find it a little easier to have sympathy for Comfort if more than half his video wasn't a rehash of the Holocaust. If he seriously thinks that no one would watch that and think that he was saying having an abortion makes you no different than Hitler, there's a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell him.