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Iraq: The War at Four

From Protesting Abortion Clinics to Protesting the War

Evangelical Christian couple who founded Believers Against the War have a son in Iraq.

Julie Sullivan, Religion News Service, in Portland, Ore. | posted 3/16/2007 09:27AM

Suzanne Brownlow shivers on the Oregon highway overpass as a cutting wind whips her sign: "Honk to End the War." Her weekly demonstration is the latest turn in a fractious journey that has taken the evangelical ...

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Kathleen Freeman

Posted: March 20, 2007 3:15 AM

My heart goes out to this woman and her son. We all decry war, and yet every mother's son who dies needlessly and inhumanly has marveled at the stars in the summer sky, tasted ice cream, seen his mother's smile, and felt that truly he is loved. In 34 years we have killed 49 million people. One minute you are listening to your mothers heart beat and the next you are being ripped limb from limb in such an agony that if they killed condemned death row inmates that way, everyone in America would protest. When we saw 2,000 boots in Washington we could say this is awful these lives had meaning. How about 49 million pairs of baby shoes? The Aztecs offered one out of six in human sacrifice. We are offering one out of every four or five to the great god of choice. Maybe when we all unite to stop the huge pagan sacrifice that so offends God every day and get on our knees and say I'm sorry, then we can ask God for peace, for justice, and we will bring the boys home. Please stop abortion

Veronica Sheehan

Posted: March 19, 2007 2:37 PM


Looking beyond anyone's disagreement with this war, I see this article as an illustration of the left's "new tactic" of trying to link opposition to the war to conservatives and therefore also trying to convince the public that the right is also beginning to accept homosexuality and abortion. Be careful....By the way, Tony Campolo is no conservative!

Erin Johnston

Posted: March 19, 2007 1:20 PM

I share the deep pain of separation with the Brownlows and I share their Christian faith. As does my husband who is currently serving our God and country in Iraq as an Army chaplain. I as much as anyone want to see this war come to a close. I don't want my husband to miss seeing our three small children growing up. It is not easy and God knows I don't want to spend the rest of my life without him should he die in Iraq. However, we have chosen to look beyond ourselves in this issue. I choose to believe that my husband is doing a tremendous service to our world by taking part in this difficult, but necessary completion of this horrible conflict. Should we sit back in our comfortable lives in America and watch others around the world suffer as the Iraqis were under Sadaam? Are we to leave this conflict now and let the terrorists cause even more havoc in our world? No, we must focus on the progress being made in Iraq and praise our troops for it.

Lois	Posted: March 19, 2007 12:47 PM

This was was started by an attack on American soil. We went to war in Afganistan. Iraq had some boastful artillary, which was sent into Syria during the UN debates. Our troops would have been attacked by Iraq. Sitting by and waitng for the next attack is NOT a way to keep America safe. These are facts. If Christians want to look at moral aspects of war, then remember in the bible it says wars are a punishment that God allows due to our free-will. Let America stop abortion, the mockery of marriage with homosexual "unions", stop the deliberate killings of the Terri Schiavo's of the nation, pornography industry, then we will see a decrease in war. I understand Suzanne Brownloe's concern for her son, but the babies she used to protest to save are still being killed DAILY, and the lives of those truely innocents are a vengeful lot in God's eyes.

Reader

Posted: March 19, 2007 12:27 PM


Is it really appropriate to link to this couple's son's My Space?

Peter Groen

Posted: March 17, 2007 3:42 PM

I appreciate hearing fellow Christians speaking out more and more against blindly accepting that the war in Iraq is somehow perfectly acceptable because the President and other Christian leaders say we should believe it is so. I have studied my Bible closely, listened to our leaders, and have concluded they are wrong. Lying to lead us into war, lying about the war, and slandering those who speak out against the war does not speak well about some of our Christian leaders. Some of them have been corrupted by the 'perceived power' they obtain by supporting a particular political party or leadership and their extremely narrow focus on abortion and homosexuality, that they are willing to ignore the many other issues scripture calls us to address. Again, I appreciate seeing and reading this article. Thank you.

Bill Wilkerson

Posted: March 16, 2007 10:27 PM

I am very happy that the Brownlows have and are sharing their Christianity. I have thought of myself as a follower of Christ most of my life and so was totally opposed to the Iraq war from day one. Many people who call themselves Christian and attend church regularly have supported this administration and the war. This has resulted in a sometimes difficult, frustrating, and heart breaking experience for me. Are our Christian churches failing to teach that Christianity is 'following Christ'? What has been the cost of not following Christ? Thank you for publishing their encouraging story. Opinion polls now indicate a large majority oppose the war and this administration but polls at the beginning of the war yielded a very opposite result. Unfortunately our society is sometimes not very Christian in attitude toward those who do not stand with the majority. A second very big thank you to the Brownlows and to CT.

Ruth Jacobson

Posted: March 16, 2007 6:15 PM


God bless the Brownlows. Following Jesus is always more difficult than following our nation, its leader, or a violent form of Christianity. Truly, blessed are the peacemakers. Their family will be in my prayers.

Diane Fitzsimmons

Posted: March 16, 2007 12:19 PM

Praise God for the Brownlows' witness. As an evangelical Christian opposed to the War in Iraq from the start, I, too, feel outside the mainstream being fully pro-life -- against war, against capital punishment, against abortion, and against euthanasia. As a citizen of the Kingdom of God, I support the Christian "army" of missionaries who labor around the world to bring the Good News to all. Thank you for printing this story.

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