Central Connecticut LFL welcomes new members. We meet 5 times per year in the autumn, winter and spring seasons to participate in activites, such as; Pro-Life Bible Studies, Baby Bottle Boomerangs, and No Crib for a Bed Project (new cribs & mattresses for crisiis pregnancy centers).

CCLFL is supported by local lutheran congregations whose members care deeply about saving lives. Saint John Ev. Lutheran Church is one of CCLFL's main supporters and contributers.

For additional information about Central Connecticut LFL contact June Stanton - (860) 243-1975. For more information about National LFL call (888)364-LIFE or go online to www.lutheransforlife.org.

We believe that this letter is an important statement of faith and priciples, and we reproduce it here.

God bless Pastor Kiesel!

CATHOLIC LAWMAKERS TRUE TO FAiTH CAN'T BACK PLAN 'B' BILL.

As pastor of a pro-life Lutheran congregation, I applaud and agree with the May 25 column by Archbishop Henry J. Mansell, "Religious freedom at stake." We in the orthodox Lutheran community share in his church's teaching that all life is a gift from God, human lives begin at the moment of conception, and the taking of a life through abortion is contrary to the Holy Scriptures.

There is, however, an area of life and practice for the members of the Roman Catholic community that escapes me: the accountability before God and church of many of our legislators who profess the Roman Catholic faith.

If there was a legislator in my congregation who had voted for the Plan B bill, requiring Catholic hospitals to provide emergency contraception to rape victims, I would contact him and question his dedication to the teachings of our church and the faith he professed. I would explain such a bill is morally equivalent to mandating. hospitals provide guns or poison to anyone who wishes to rid themselves of aging parents or handicapped children. If he still refused to withdraw his support for the Plan B bill, perhaps citing something such as "I personally believe it is wrong, but I have to represent all the people," it would be clearer that he really didn't believe abortion is murder. One cannot truly believe abortion is murder and then condone it.

Finally, it would be clear that such a person, being unrepentant, was not living the Christian life that is professed, and had separated himself from the gifts of God. In such a case, the church Would have no choice but to exercise excommunication. This not for the ruin of the soul, but to show this legislator his thinking is flawed, his actions belie his profession of faith, and unless he turns from such evil in repentance, he will never see the blessing of heaven that was earned for him by the blood of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

I could quote many Bible verses to back up what I have written, but rather than regale you with bomb-sight biblicism, I will conclude with the plain words of Christ: "You cannot serve both God and manmon."