ORLANDO, Florida, January 16, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – If he “had a dime for every time” someone told him that he looked like Elvis, says Robert Pierre, he’d be “well off.”
Even without the comparison, the 19-year-old singer’s boyish good looks are bound for teenage-girl crush fests. Plus, he has vocal talent serious enough to launch him to a record deal virtually overnight, after one casual home recording was played by a local Christian radio station. Pierre was only in eighth grade at the time.
While such a package could certainly take him places, Pierre, who now sings regularly for his church community, says that his heart is still firmly rooted in the Christian faith that provides the overt inspiration for his songs. And if that wasn’t enough to keep him out of the mainstream, Pierre has joined his voice with the growing numbers of his generation calling for an end to the abortion holocaust, and will make an appearance at the National Pro-Life Youth Rally immediately following the March for Life in Washington, D.C. January 23.
“A great injustice is happening, we can’t look away … There’s no use pretending that we are unaware,” sings Pierre in “Silent Cry,” a pro-life song on his latest album, “I’m All In.”
“Stand up, it’s time / Listen to their silent cry / Before the dawn of creation they had God’s eye / Now they’re not even given one chance at life. … Life is a gift / Not choice that we get / No mistake ever made / Made a life to erase,” it continues.
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Although he was always against abortion, Pierre told LifeSiteNews.com that the song arose in his heart after a guest at his high school showed his class images of children killed in abortion. His sentiments deepened after a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, where he said it was not the horrors of the slaughter itself, but the indifference of the surrounding communities, that shocked him most.
“I always thought that, had the Germans really known what was going on in those concentration camps, surely they wouldn’t have allowed what happened to have happened,” said Pierre, who said he became “horrified, standing in there and seeing just outside the walls and the barbed wire, were houses, communities, neighborhoods. …
“These people saw the smokestacks, could smell the smell every day, and said nothing.”
He says he felt the pressure to make sure he would not join those communities in turning a blind eye to injustice, and the lies that surround it. “It’s something I can’t stay silent about. … It’s troubling knowing that my generation is being lied to,” he said, criticizing those who are “trying to portray sex as something that’s safe and fun … [that] there’s a safe way out of it. I want to be part of revealing the truth.”
Pierre will join other entertainers and pro-life leaders, including Lila Rose and David Bereit of 40 Days for Life, at the 2nd annual National Pro-Life Youth Rally, which will take place near Union Station. (Click here for directions.)
Leaders at the rally will also be giving out free pro-life materials and unveiling a pro-life election effort.
Click here for more information about the National Pro-Life Youth Rally.