Pastor Confronts Local Government

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Honorable representatives, I want to express my deepest gratitude for your attention today. I also want to testify to my humble submission to your role as God's ordained civil magistrates with the duty to preserve justice and to work to punish evil and uphold justice.

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My name is Reverend Jeff Durbin, the lead teaching pastor at Apologia Church. Thank you for your attention today. My purpose in coming before you this day is to be a witness and a voice for the fatherless, preborn neighbors who are being dismembered, poisoned, and chemically burned in our state and your city and under your watch and jurisdiction.

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Not only has taking the life of an innocent human being in the womb against God's fundamental command to not murder, it is against current and unchanged

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Arizona law, Arizona Statute 13 -3603, Roe v.

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Wade is not a law. The Supreme Court of the United States has not been given the duty or power of legislation according to our union's founding documents.

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It is a fundamentally flawed and errant court opinion. Decades old without proper scientific, logical, or legal basis.

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It was based on the biologically and demonstrably absurd premise that what is in the womb of a mother is potential human life.

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We know as a biblical fact of revelation and as a biological and scientific fact that at the very moment of our conception all of our biological components of you, me, and every human being is present.

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The only difference from that point is the difference of degree, size, level of development, environment, and degree of dependence.

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Honorable representatives of justice, murder is defined as taking human life in an unjustified manner with malice of forethought.

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This is taking place under your watch, under your jurisdiction, and it is your responsibility to uphold justice for our pre -born neighbors and to interpose by putting an immediate end to this massacre of innocence.

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This is not merely, please hear this, a partisan issue. This is the premier issue of justice before you all this day.

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And every day until you do your duty to stand between these defenseless human beings and their attackers. Honorable representatives, you have a duty to not allow people to kill human beings who are small, still developing, are located in the safe sanctuary of their mothers, and who are dependent on others for life.

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If we rationalize killing children because they are small, do we also abate the punishment for the father who murders his small two -year -old?

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Do we also cease to uphold justice for the nine -year -old who is not fully developed? Do we allow humans to kill other humans simply because of where they happen to be located?

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Are we going to cease upholding justice for the elderly and the handicapped simply because they are dependent upon others for their lives?

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Before this day is over, dozens of human beings will have their arms torn from their sockets, their legs will be ripped from their bodies, and they will be disemboweled and have their heads crushed.

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Graphic, I know, but true. This will be done under your watch, and you will all be held accountable before God for not acting, and you will be violating your duty as magistrates by not upholding justice and, please hear this,

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Arizona law, which forbids the unjustified killing of a human being with malice of forethought. Thank you for your attention today.