"There was a time when the church was very powerful in the time when
the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what
they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer
that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a
thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Whenever the early
Christians entered a town, the people in power became disturbed and
immediately sought to convict the Christians for being "disturbers of
the peace" and outside agitators. But the Christians pressed on in the
conviction that they were "a colony of heaven" called to obey God
rather than man. Small in number they were big in commitment. They were
too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." By their effort
and example they brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Letter from a Birmingham jail, June 12, 1963)
Somehow I think FOCA would have appalled Dr. King.
Sharon says
Thank you. Well said.