{"id":319107,"date":"2024-09-23T06:53:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T11:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=319107"},"modified":"2024-09-25T12:38:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T17:38:17","slug":"nfl-famer-tony-dungy-pro-life-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nfl-famer-tony-dungy-pro-life-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Hall of Famer Tony Dungy defends pro-life Christianity: &#8216;We should not take any life unjustly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>NFL Hall of Fame Football coach Tony Dungy reaffirmed his commitment to protecting life recently, as he posted a tweet maintaining that the true Christian faith does <em>not<\/em> support abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Dungy was responding to a tweet by Vice President Kamala Harris, who claimed that religion should not hinder anyone from supporting abortion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree: The government, and certainly Donald Trump, should not be telling a woman what to do with her body,&#8221; she said in her statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dear VP Harris: I hear you make this statement all the time. Exactly what \u201cfaith\u201d are you talking about when you say you don\u2019t have to abandon it to support abortion? Are you talking about the Christian faith that says all babies are made in the image of God (Gen 1:26), that God\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lo7v8V4wRm\">https:\/\/t.co\/Lo7v8V4wRm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tony Dungy (@TonyDungy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyDungy\/status\/1836859560516276579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dungy fired back at the claim using Biblical quotes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dear VP Harris: I hear you make this statement all the time. Exactly what \u2018faith\u2019 are you talking about when you say you don\u2019t have to abandon it to support abortion? Are you talking about the Christian faith that says all babies are made in the image of God (Gen 1:26), that God places them in the womb (Jer 1:5) and that we should not take any life unjustly (Luke 18:20)?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you talking about that faith or some nebulous, general \u2018faith\u2019 that says we\u2019re good enough, and smart enough to make our own decisions? What \u2018faith\u2019 are you talking about?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dungy has long been vocal about his support for life. He previously called out a minister who had expressed support for abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you say \u2018a minister\u2019 does that mean they represent a church? I\u2019d like to know what book the candidate uses as their foundation for truth and their guiding principles? It couldn\u2019t be the Bible,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/coach-tony-dungy-bible-cannot-support-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dungy tweeted<\/a> in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He and his wife, Lauren, have also put their commitment to life into practice, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tony-dungy-blessing-foster-100-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fostering over 100 children<\/a> throughout their 40 years of marriage. They are also the parents of 11 children, eight of whom are adopted. In 2019, the couple <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tony-and-lauren-dungy-talk-new-book-we-chose-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote a book<\/a> celebrating adoption, called \u201cWe Chose You: A Book about Adoption, Family, and Forever Love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God knows us before we even come out of our mother\u2019s womb. And we thought that was really necessary for young people to understand, that God had a plan for you,&#8221; Tony told the TODAY show of he and his wife&#8217;s adoption journey. &#8220;We\u2019ve got seven in our house right now we feel like He put in our family. It wasn\u2019t an accident. It wasn\u2019t any miscommunication. God had planned for them to be with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/resist-pressure-to-dispense-the-abortion-pill\/\"><b><i>Urge Walmart, Costco, Kroger, and other major chains to resist pressure to dispense the abortion pill<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL Hall of Fame Football coach Tony Dungy reaffirmed his commitment to protecting life recently, as he posted a tweet maintaining that the true Christian faith does not support abortion. 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