On Tuesday, President Obama's former spiritual advisor and defrocked Methodist minister Harry Knox penned a Washington Post op-ed alongside Rev. Alethea Smith-Withers chastising Christian clergy, primarily Catholic, for standing in stark opposition against abortion.

In the column, the former minister who once called the Knights of Columbus Pope Benedict XVI's "foot soldiers" in a "discredited army of oppression," essentially stated that since there currently stands no "unified" view of abortion among Christians, then pastors need to let people deal with it according to their own conscience.

"There is no monolithic religious opinion about contraception, abortion or sex education," says Knox and Withers. "The wisdom found in our faith traditions is rich, nuanced and rarely absolute. Here is the good news: Most people of faith in the United States support access to compassionate abortion care."

Their statement that no "monolithic religious opinion" exists in relation to abortion can be completely negated by the fact that most Christian denominations, excluding Episcopalians and Presbyterian USA, have condemned the practice entirely.

Knox and Withers then make the widely-held claim among pro-abortion advocates that attempting to pass laws against the institution violates religious freedom and separation of church and state.

"There are some politicians who do not want abortion to be legal and use the mantle of religion to demand legislation that would close clinics or withhold insurance coverage, making care unaffordable," they go on to say. "This is wrong. It is not our place to impose our religious beliefs on others, and it is certainly not the place of a politician."

By Knox's and Withers' own estimates, the right to life has no fundamental and inalienable truths governing its principle, and should be relative to "every person in the United States' own conscience and faith tradition."