Release Hannah Overton: Christian Mother Unjustly Imprisoned

Today the Rev. John Otis (pictured above) contacted me by e-mail to alert me to a judicial tragedy in America. Hannah Overton – a Christian homeschooling mother of five children – has been jailed for failing to act or provide medical attention for her son, whom, unknown to her, had ingested something that would ultimately kill him. Nine months of CPS investigation could not find her guilty of child abuse. Ten months of the District Attorney’s investigation and 8 days of testimony could not convince the jury that she purposely poisoned this little boy.

What is she guilty of? Not discerning the signs of salt intoxication from the signs of a common flu. Now five children are without a mother. Did she act? When cold, she warmed him with a blanket and a warm bath. When his breathing was affected she gave him a breathing treatment. When he did not respond to her care, she rushed him to the hospital and on the way he stopped breathing. Is this failure to act? At the hospital the doctors even shot sodium into his veins because they also did not recognize the signs of salt intoxication. Mothers and fathers of small children, fear this verdict and pray for Hannah who has already suffered the consequences of an misinformed media, a zealous police investigator, CPS trying to cover themselves politically and the DA who continues to stir up emotions about child abuse when none was proven. For all the Christians out there, understand this, Hannah’s simple faith was used against her as the prosecution incessantly sought to make her out to be a religious sociopath. [this information has been taken from the Free Hannah Overton website]

Rev. Otis (a minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States) has been working hard to highlight this gross injustice and on the Lord’s Day preached a sermon entitled “Hannah Overton’s Judicial Tragedy: When Autonomy assaults Theonomy” Hopefully the injustice of this will highlight the need for Christians to contend more zealously for the justice of Theonomic ethics. For those who ridicule the holy laws of God with smart comments like “should we stone our children?”, condemn Theonomists as “deluded”, or hide behind a couple of historical quotes (usually taken out of context) as an excuse for casting aside God’s righteous standards of civil justice – is this what you would prefer to God’s civil law? Would you prefer to live under such tyranny or under the freedom of Biblical judicial law? In light of tragedies such as this, which are the result of human autonomy in civil ethics, I counsel anti-Theonomists to repent of their sinful rejection of the word of the Lord (I call it that for that is what it is) and to embrace the truth and justice of God’s law.

Could readers please pray that Hannah will be released and that her children will be quickly re-united with their mother. The rise of secular humanism in America is very troubling, and I fear that Northern Ireland is not much better. Despite the fact that we are being governed partly by evangelical Christians (and partly by Socialist Terrorists), the province is becoming more and more secular as humanism is increasingly on the rise. The church is partly to blame for this; we have hidden ourselves away in our Calvinistic monasteries – amusing ourselves to death with endless fun and games – while society is getting increasingly wicked. But what else can we expect? We have refused to proclaim God’s word as it applies to education, economics, politics, civil law etc, thus denying the kingship of Christ over the totality of life , and so, the wicked exercise rule over us and (unless the Lord steps in) will begin to persecute us.

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