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  • 2022-05-04 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Pastor Dave Barnhart Say, 'The Unborn Are a Convenient Group of People to Advocate For'? (en)
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  • In May 2022, after the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion showed that the justices were set to overturn Roe v. Wade, a piece of text supposedly written by a pastor named Dave Barnhart about how the the unborn are a convenient group of people to advocate for was widely circulated on social media: This message was truly written by the pastor. Barnhart, who is a pastor at Saint Junia United Methodist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, first posted this message to his Facebook page in 2018. At the time, Alabama politicians were in the process of passing an amendment to the state's constitution that would recognize the rights of the unborn in order to ensure that state funds [would] not go to funding abortion care, according to AL.com. The full text of Barnhart's Facebook post read: Some of the most popular iterations of this quote introduced Barnhart as a traditional Christian pastor. Other versions introduced Barnhart as a Methodist pastor or simply a pastor. Barnhart operates a network of house churches called the Saint Junia United Methodist Church. Saint Junia United Methodist Church describes itself on its Facebook page as a a diverse community of sinners, saints, and skeptics who join God in the renewal of all things. (en)
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