Ryan Bomberger is the Chief Creative Officer and co-founder of The Radiance Foundation. He is happily married to his best friend, Bethany, who is the Executive Director of Radiance. They are adoptive parents with four awesome kiddos. Ryan is an Emmy Award-winning creative professional, factivist, international public speaker and author of NOT EQUAL: CIVIL RIGHTS GONE WRONG. He loves illuminating that every human life has purpose.
As an adoptive family of 15 with white, black, mixed, Native American, Vietnamese, able and disabled siblings, we’re literally the realization of Martin Luther King’s dream. My marriage and my four mixed children are a testament to a movement that fought to erase the destructive lines racism had drawn for our society.
According to the male-dominated Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, abortion ensures the “smooth functioning of American society.” Things go so smoothly when we kill our children. OK. Got it.
I know the memories of our historical heroes are sacrosanct. While I have celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.’s history-changing eloquence on individual and societal morality and his relentless pursuit of justice, I can’t ignore his blind spots.
Love is love, right? Nope. God is love. When we understand that and how love is defined in 1 Corinthians 13, we can’t pretend that our culture’s brokenness is something to celebrate.
You are reading my words, today, because my birthmom didn’t end my life. Despite being a victim of rape, she did not make me a victim of abortion. For that, I’m eternally grateful.