Tell me again what it means to be pro-life.
Tell me again how sacred life is.
Tell me again how thou shalt not kill.
Tell me again how we are to love even our enemies.
Tell me again how the meek will inherit the world.
Tell me these things, and do so loud enough to be heard over the sound of gunfire.
-Unknown-
Tell me again how sacred life is.
Tell me again how thou shalt not kill.
Tell me again how we are to love even our enemies.
Tell me again how the meek will inherit the world.
Tell me these things, and do so loud enough to be heard over the sound of gunfire.
-Unknown-
Dr. George Tiller was murdered this morning. Shot in the foyer of his church where he was serving as an usher, greeting friends and strangers as they arrived to worship.
Even when I was all about Evangelical Christianity, I wasn't about abortion protests. I wasn't anti-Tiller as many in Wichita were when I was growing up. As with almost everything in life, abortion isn't that simple. You can't create this prototypic person, this woman who casually gets a late-term abortion and feels no remorse. You can't do that. People who make the difficult, painful decision come from every walk of life and have so many stories. Despite what this year's election debates and Fox News may report, I've never heard of anyone who is "Pro-Abortion."
I'm not sure if the murderer killed this father, husband, and grandfather to prove a point related to abortion, but that's the presumption. I'm not sure if the murderer will as a result be held up as an example of all that is good to extremist "pro-life" (can we even call it that?) groups. I hope not. And as much as my initial reaction was to think that the murderer should be cut up in little pieces and fed to snakes, that's not what should happen at all. Because he's a person too.
So for today there's some anger and plenty of sadness and very careful holding of the delicate thing - hope for the future.
Even when I was all about Evangelical Christianity, I wasn't about abortion protests. I wasn't anti-Tiller as many in Wichita were when I was growing up. As with almost everything in life, abortion isn't that simple. You can't create this prototypic person, this woman who casually gets a late-term abortion and feels no remorse. You can't do that. People who make the difficult, painful decision come from every walk of life and have so many stories. Despite what this year's election debates and Fox News may report, I've never heard of anyone who is "Pro-Abortion."
I'm not sure if the murderer killed this father, husband, and grandfather to prove a point related to abortion, but that's the presumption. I'm not sure if the murderer will as a result be held up as an example of all that is good to extremist "pro-life" (can we even call it that?) groups. I hope not. And as much as my initial reaction was to think that the murderer should be cut up in little pieces and fed to snakes, that's not what should happen at all. Because he's a person too.
So for today there's some anger and plenty of sadness and very careful holding of the delicate thing - hope for the future.
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