Michael Vick’s Redemption

The debate over Michael Vick’s recent football antics is once again dominating the news circle; and although the redemption is taking root, there are those who will still want to punish Vick further… even though he has served his time. The Vick phenomenon is a display on how much our values have changed, specifically that of equating the rights afforded to humans to animals. I am not here to condone what Vick did to the dogs in his charge, but the outrage by some of us was overboard and unwarranted. Where is the outrage over the ongoing slaughter of the innocents under the guise of ‘abortion rights’ and how many of us would and have criticized those pro-life supporters who display pictures of actual, gruesome aborted fetuses?

In contrast, we extolled the virtues of those who have abortions, not because of rape, incest, or a threat to the mother, but for the simple, venerated sake of God choosing the female species to replenish the human race. No doubt that there are still going to be protests and influence brought to bear on the National Football League, if they could, not to ‘big-up’ Vick’s spectacular exploits in the last three weeks or so… engaging in the vocation he loves - while some of us will engage in our Constitutional right of moral indolence by walking pass our shame… on our way to wax poetic about the spotted owl or to boast about how green we are in our support of the much maligned environment. 

I too used to be cavalier on the abortion issue until I saw my daughter in my wife’s womb; since then, I have pondered how deluded one must have to be to have seen an ultra sound and go home and chalk it up to just globs of tissue, which just happen to have the DNA of his or her parents. Permit me to digress a little, but I must convey a story I heard about a couple residing in Hawaii who had many a problems - the least of which was the interracial nature of their relationship. In the middle of the chaotic relationship, a child was sired-no one knows if sometime during the pregnancy, the mother contemplated an abortion; however, the child that was born in the midst of all that chaos… made epochal history by becoming the first African American President of these United States. In the mean time, Michael Vick to many is still among the ranks of the notoriously wicked of our age - Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Bin Laden….

-Verily Prime