In a recent op-ed for Time Magazine, Baptist “pastor” Lauren Jones Mayfield made a bold claim. She wrote, “I can’t do my job as a pastor with abortion laws like Texas’ S.B. 8 in place.” Mayfield is referencing the Texas Heartbeat Act, which restricts abortion after a unborn child’s heartbeat is detected.
Mayfield wrote following a roundtable with Kamala Harris:
I was grateful for the opportunity to represent the tens of thousands of clergy around the country who strongly support access to reproductive health care—including abortion access—as a moral issue and a calling supported by our faith’s first teaching to do no harm and love our neighbors.
wanted the Vice President to understand how a law like Texas’s radical Senate Bill 8–which bans most abortions after around six weeks and empowers private citizens to sue anyone who helps a pregnant person get an abortion after that period–might make my job more difficult in Kentucky.
Live Action writes:
Of the Texas law, Mayfield says that “we certainly should never pass laws that prevent us from showing love and care to our neighbors.” But both a mother and her child are our neighbors deserving of love and care, as Scripture makes clear that God sees the preborn as human beings. It is unclear why Rev. Mayfield thinks she cannot show love and care without promoting abortion. In fact, abortion is never something that a Christian pastor should be advocating for their congregants. It is in direct violation of the Fifth Commandment: Thou shalt not kill. Furthermore, post-abortive women are increasingly opening up about the trauma and regret they experience as a result of abortion. Counseling a woman to commit abortion is neither loving nor caring.
According to Mayfield’s bio, she is a “pastor” in Louisville, Kentucky, and is the vice-chair of Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Clergy Advocacy Board.
No pastor should be promoting abortion. What part of “Thou shalt not kill” does she not understand? As a pastor she should be following God’s Word, NOT encouraging someone to sin.
Wow!
Unbelievable.
talk about the fox guarding then hen house , wouldn’t want to attend that church this so-call “pastor” will lead many astray.
So it will be harder for her to send poor women to the side of Satan. Good job Texas!
Not much of a “pastor” as far as I am concerned if she cant recognize the life begins at conception.
She is a paper pastor
She and her cohorts don’t sound like “pastors” to me. Baby killer sounds more like their agenda just like the potus and ho harris.
This is the problem with Christian organizations today they are lead by people who do not not even know their own religion. I remember Christ saying bring the children to me not kill the children. How can a so called pastor be in favor of killing a baby.
Proclaiming her belief in the murder of the unborn makes this so-called ‘pastor’ unfit for a pulpit! She has placed herself in a pathway to Hell!
Then she’s another fake Christian like Biden and Pelosi. Why is there a crucifix in her “church”? She pretends to be Baptist, not Catholic. Sick people pretending to be defenders of Jesus. Blasphemy!
It is probably a stock photo. The writer and editor of this article didn’t notice or doesn’t know the difference.
She is a member of the church of satan, a true POS. Anyone listening to it does so at their own folly. Next biden will be a paster, they have the same satanic belief system.
This country is going insane.
My faith also states that women are not to be pastors. They can support the church in other ways, but are not to be pastors.
The Bible also teaches us not to murder, and killing the pre-born is murder. So any pastor that claims to support abortion cannot truly be a pastor. Instead, to support the mother and the baby, for women who do not wish to raise a child, there is always the option of adoption and there are many parents looking to adopt children because they cannot have any of their own. Why not show compassion for both? No, this pastor is taking the selfish side and claiming to support reproductive healthcare. If you also want to support reproductive healthcare, then preach to your congregation the important of abstaining and birth control so you do not get pregnant in the first place!
Exactly! Very well said!
“1Ti_3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;”
Please don’t call her a Pastor. I don’t know why God chose to limit the office of Pastor to men, but He did. They can Prophesize and teach Oh, a bishop and pastor are the same thing in the Christian world, excepting of course the Catholic and those that follow the doctrine (TRADITION) of the Catholic church.
This woman is no christian, in my opinion. She is against Biblical Law as commanded in the Bible. She should be removed as a false teacher.
How is any law in Texas affect anyone in Kentucky?
Maybe you should READ your Bible BEFORE you open your mouth.
She might find “her job” even harder when she meets Jesus face to face. She knows better than this! Better to repent now than to wait!
This so-called pastor is a babbling fool, Proverbs 10:6.
Thou shall not KILL
what part of the 10 commandments do you NOT understand?
Pastor??? Doesn’t read the Bible obviously, maybe a false prophet?
Abortion is murder, prove me wrong.
Isaiah 5:20
How can a person be a Christian and believe in murdering the unborn as life begins at conception.
She sure hasn’t been called by God to be a pastor and should be removed immediately from the pulpit
THE “Baptist” church does NOT believe in female Pastors. As the Holy Bible directs. This woman is a fraud and promoter of mass murder as a “Moral” right. The woman is a Goon.
Even so called “Christians” mistakenly believe that monotheism means that there is only one god. What it actually means is that Jehovah requires that you SERVE only one god. There are other gods and these other gods have their own pastors and their own agendas. We are in a WAR and if you don’t understand that much then stop pretending that you are saved. Christ “saved” the people who were willing to re-enter the fray. All the rest is false hoopla.
What is the point of being a Baptist pastor if you are not a Christian?
Well she isn’t a Christian is she condones murder for a start if I was a member of her church I would be asking for her replacement.
By removing my previous comment your organization in not much better then facebook. No one or organization has the right to control speech. That is communism. This pastor is not Christian if she can condone killing a baby.
God doesn’t recognize her as a pastor and neither do I, nor should anyone else who truly honors Him and the life He creates!
The Bible States clearly a woman should never be on the pulpit this woman is a self-proclaimed hypocrite lord lord lord but you don’t keep my Commandments I do not know you
You are absolutely correct mayfield. Your job as a satanic Luciferian witch will be much much more difficult, but not to worry the Holy Father will destroy you very soon!
Did a little Goggling on “Pastor” Mayfield. She’s way more of a mouthpiece for political ends than she is a shepherd to her flock.
Googling (sorry)
She stated — “our faith’s first teaching to do no harm” …… isn;t the killing of the baby causing harm ???
Isn’t it her job to direct ppl to Satan…so what’s seems to be the problem❓
Promoters of murder do not belong in a pulpit!
First of all, she is not a Pastor and can never be, unless God chooses to rewrite His Words. Second she is not a Baptist. She has obviously, a very limited knowledge of Gods word or the Doctrine of the Baptists. So let me assume she is a preacher of a Satanic cult calling themselves Baptists. The Word of God clearly says Life Begins at Conception and all human life has a soul. I will take a few moments to pray for her soul.
Pastor? A job? I don’t think so. The writings of the Apostle Paul, fully describe a Pastor. He also details the organization of a Christian Church.
This sinner has placed herself in opposition to the Bible, God will have a few things to tell her on Judgement day. The calling to be a Pastor is not a job in a Christian Church, it is a calling. Just as a Church is a called out Assembly.
Psalm 127:3-5 ESV /Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb…
Women are unique and special in God’s creation; only they can assure the continuation of mankind; the continuation of the heritage of God. That gift was not given to another; man alone cannot “bear that fruit”. In as much as women are created special by God they should honor that with the way they live; their thoughts, their words, their acts and actions In the eyes of God, “continuing His heritage” is the most important task a woman has. Man also has a task; provider and protector of the woman and her “fruit”.
Any person, regardless of title or position, teaching anything other than the Word of God will not be recognized in the Kingdom of God.