Lev - Hobbit Rebellion at UN

I'm an admirer of the writing and reporting of Elizabeth Lev. So it comes as no surprise to me that she sized up a recent surprising turn of events at the United Nations, of all places. The usual flight from love and life (read: covenantal marriage, giving birth to and raising children) was taken up by the monolithic powers and principalities, "progressive" double-speak ready to be voted upon, when suddenly a small band of ... hobbit-states put the kibosh on the whole work of evil.

... four hobbit-like states, whose collective national products probably don't equal the operating budget for Planned Parenthood, spoke loudly and convincingly. Malta decried the consistent attempts by the commission to expand "reproductive health" to include abortion.

The delegate from Santa Lucia saw to the heart of the proposed wording and stressed that her delegation understood that this provision did not threaten the right of health care providers to refuse to perform or be complicit in abortions as a matter of conscience.

As Galadrial said to the wavering Frodo, "even the smallest person can change the course of the future."

At the last moment at the close of the meeting, the ring of power was thrown back into the fires of Mount Doom from whence it came. "Sexual and reproductive health and rights" was struck from the text.

In these days of imminent conscience coercion, massive government funding of abortion and other gloomy signs on the horizon, this little fellowship at the United Nations demonstrated what Tolkien's characters whisper during the darkest hours and Pope Benedict XVI exclaims from nation to nation: "There is still hope."

Read all of Elizabeth Lev's inspiring and brilliant Hobbit Alliance Brings Triumph of Hope.