Amen.

I’ve been thinking about your comment all day Chris. In actual fact, it’s the Progressive policies that have perpetuated the breakdown. You have to ask given the catastrophic failure if the real racism doesn’t actually exist there. How else do you explain that almost 75% of the abortions that Planned Parenthood performs are on Black children, and that most of their clinics are located in poorer neighborhoods? Yes, I realize this is politically incorrect but the numbers don’t lie.

Like John Couretas summarized it: “Shut up!” or “Pay, pray, and obey!” is the frequent response that priests and the laity get when they dare challenge or question the morally vacuous proclamations of these Orthodox “leaders.” Don’t they realize that such condescension are signs of cowardice and weakness. Rather than re-inforce and confirm their authority these kinds of attitudes undermine their leadership and diminish their righteous authority. Rational sheep will not be fooled by these kinds of games.

Here is the risk inherent in leadership: The greater the leader’s power, wealth, authority, and influence, the more likely the leader could succumb to ethical lapses and moral failings. The risk increases if the organization has a culture that lacks financial or managerial transparency and accountability, has insufficient checks and balances on executive power, and discourages criticism from subordinates or members. When a leader with a poorly developed ethical or moral sense ends up leading an organization with a culture that prevents ethical self-examination, a slow but perfect storm starts to form that demands compromise from all levels of leadership and eventually leads to catastrophic consequences.
http://orthodoxnet.com/blog/2009/09/warning-signs-of-power-corruption-in-organizations/

That’s the trouble with Progressive thinking. Progressive ideas have shaped the dependency culture especially in black urban areas that have essentially destroyed the Black family infrastructure. Then, to deal with the fallout, Progressives offer abortion to ostensibly solve the problems their ideas have fostered. There is seldom any self-reflection in the Progressive ranks, just a repeat of the moralizations used to implement the policies in the first place.

An example? Progressive resistance against school choice is virtually unanimous. They would prefer to keep poor children in substandard government schools for fear of healing the dependency and losing the Black vote. America’s worst performing schools are in Democratically controlled inner-cities.

Metropolitan Savas (Zembillas) on abortion:

“Given the demographics of abortion—which shows a terrible over-representation of young, single, urban, low-income African-American women—I do not understand how a pro-life agenda can be divorced from a social justice agenda. It is impossible for a Christian to acquiesce in policies that allow doctors to suck the life out of a fetus—yet it is deplorably common for Christians to eagerly encourage ‘conservative’ policies that perpetuate poverty, substandard education, and inadequate healthcare for these littlest ones, once they have left the womb.”