George Tiller is dead.
If you did not know, George Tiller had the most gruesome abortion record in the country. He would perform his "procedure" on any baby, in any trimester, for any reason. He had the blessing of Kansas' former governor Kathleen Sibelius, previously the most pro-abortion executive in the country.
He was unashamed about what he did. Pro-choice groups lauded him a hero. Now he is dead, murdered in his church of all places, and he will become a martyr.
This should never have happened. Had Kansas a governor with any moral mettle, the doctor would have been behind bars, at the very least for the past half-dozen years with many dozens still facing him, for the atrocities he had committed upon the unborn.
Law should have settled Tiller's case long ago. Law failed Tiller. Law failed Kansas. Law failed the thousands dead at Tiller's hand.
In the fertile soil of unenforced law, anarchy grows. Today, a vigilante entered Tiller's church and shot him dead. He was serving as usher today at his Lutheran church in Wichita.
Where was Tiller's pastor? No, not today. Three weeks ago. Three months ago. Three years ago. You've got someone sitting in your congregation, actually meeting and greeting folks as an usher on Sunday mornings, who during the week dismembers babies for a living, and you say nothing? "Hey, George, wanna play a round of golf on Saturday?" Where is the prophetic outrage? The pastor and every person in that congregation are culpable for the blood on Dr. Tiller's hands, and I would contend, for the very blood of Dr. Tiller.
Murder. The vigilante should be tried and sentenced for first degree murder. Self-defend all day long. Protect the innocent by laying down your own life. It is legal to kill another to protect an innocent if the innocent's life is in imminent jeopardy. I don't think Mr. Tiller (hardly a doctor) posed an imminent threat to anyone at his church. To execute law and preserve justice, that is the role of the state. It's failure does not permit one man to take unto himself the gravest task of the state, the death sentence of another man.
With President Obama taking the mantle from Ms. Sibelius as the most pro-abortion executive in the country, Tiller's death will serve to foment like kerosene on a riotous bonfire the hatred of the pro-choice movement for those who are pro-life. What Matthew Sheppard was to the homosexual movement, so George Tiller will become to pro-abortion America. The pro-life movement will become synonymous with wild-eyed zealotry.
Abortions will not become uncommon and rare. They will become unrestricted, and do not be surprised if protesting abortions becomes hate-speech and felonious.
George Tiller's death, rather than saving the life of the unborn, will do nothing to stem the tide of abortions but will actually make them more accessible. His death was criminal. So to was his life.
It's a travesty of justice all the way around.
(read Isaiah 59:1-8 here. Grievous.)
If you did not know, George Tiller had the most gruesome abortion record in the country. He would perform his "procedure" on any baby, in any trimester, for any reason. He had the blessing of Kansas' former governor Kathleen Sibelius, previously the most pro-abortion executive in the country.
He was unashamed about what he did. Pro-choice groups lauded him a hero. Now he is dead, murdered in his church of all places, and he will become a martyr.This should never have happened. Had Kansas a governor with any moral mettle, the doctor would have been behind bars, at the very least for the past half-dozen years with many dozens still facing him, for the atrocities he had committed upon the unborn.
Law should have settled Tiller's case long ago. Law failed Tiller. Law failed Kansas. Law failed the thousands dead at Tiller's hand.
In the fertile soil of unenforced law, anarchy grows. Today, a vigilante entered Tiller's church and shot him dead. He was serving as usher today at his Lutheran church in Wichita.
Where was Tiller's pastor? No, not today. Three weeks ago. Three months ago. Three years ago. You've got someone sitting in your congregation, actually meeting and greeting folks as an usher on Sunday mornings, who during the week dismembers babies for a living, and you say nothing? "Hey, George, wanna play a round of golf on Saturday?" Where is the prophetic outrage? The pastor and every person in that congregation are culpable for the blood on Dr. Tiller's hands, and I would contend, for the very blood of Dr. Tiller.
Murder. The vigilante should be tried and sentenced for first degree murder. Self-defend all day long. Protect the innocent by laying down your own life. It is legal to kill another to protect an innocent if the innocent's life is in imminent jeopardy. I don't think Mr. Tiller (hardly a doctor) posed an imminent threat to anyone at his church. To execute law and preserve justice, that is the role of the state. It's failure does not permit one man to take unto himself the gravest task of the state, the death sentence of another man.
With President Obama taking the mantle from Ms. Sibelius as the most pro-abortion executive in the country, Tiller's death will serve to foment like kerosene on a riotous bonfire the hatred of the pro-choice movement for those who are pro-life. What Matthew Sheppard was to the homosexual movement, so George Tiller will become to pro-abortion America. The pro-life movement will become synonymous with wild-eyed zealotry.
Abortions will not become uncommon and rare. They will become unrestricted, and do not be surprised if protesting abortions becomes hate-speech and felonious.
George Tiller's death, rather than saving the life of the unborn, will do nothing to stem the tide of abortions but will actually make them more accessible. His death was criminal. So to was his life.
It's a travesty of justice all the way around.
(read Isaiah 59:1-8 here. Grievous.)
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Very well said, Keith. You should see the demonstrations around here already...candlelight vigils, speeches by officials... Tragic on so many levels...
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