NO.
I would not have honored him.
I would not have protected him.
I would not call anyone who killed him a murderer.
What’s the problem with the pro-death crowd? Tiller was killed by one of their own - a post-birth abortionist whose violent background looks quite simlar to bill ayers.
The difference here is that Tiller was a murderer on a large scale.
Hoping this is one of the few reasonable columns I've seen to date.
> All who know the objective truth about the dignity and value of every human life should decry this horrible act of violence.
Amen.
We are now a country that reveres abortion and euthanasia.
Too many have remained silent when these laws have been passed or we have actually welcomed those laws.
Remember, God is watching. We need to stand up and speak up whenever we can.
The thing bothering me this morning is all the people and their families that will be out of work because of the man’s death /sarc
Funny - many of those who are sobbing for poor Tiller right now would have no qualms, if it were possible, to go back in time and kill Hitler before he started his murderous rampage.
It was “street justice” which we decry as wrong ... but it was still justice.
NO.
I would not have honored him.
I would not have protected him.
I would not call anyone who killed him a murderer.
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Except for the fact that the wholly innocent unborn did nothing to anger anyone to the point of murder.
A man must resign himself to the mercy of God by acting on his God given conscience, or resign himself to the mercy of God as part of the collective (apparent) curse.
The test of a man's walk with God is deciding which is the God directed path.
Romans 13 gives us God's chosen magistrates for good .... but if the (all scripture is given by inspiration ... and is profitable for .... instruction ... ) ... magistrate no longer does good .... can we rely on the sentiment that threw off the shackles of bondage to England and directed to our own selves as duty, to do away with such (tyranny/evil) ?
Perhaps its not a good thing to be a friend of Kathleen Sebilius like Tiller was.
Are you saying that the hand of God could NOT be at work here? Through out the Bible, didn't God strike down the wicked in various manners?
The real tragedy in this all is that the state (the entity, not the local and federal institutions) allowed this to happen, through not enforcing the laws, or upholding anything remotely close morality. The killer is responsible for his actions; the state is culpable in creating the environment.
Agreed, but I’m not going to allow them to blame me for it. I will not be put on the defensive, that is exactly what they want. They will milk the situation as much as possible.
My big regret is that it is going to be harmful to the cause because of the way the press is playing it, and that now the killer - who sounds like a rather disturbed individual anyway - has a murder on his soul.
Tiller was an evil man who lived by murder, lived by blood, lived by violence. As you sow, so shall you reap. Somebody had tried to kill him once before, which certainly should have been a wake-up call, but he obviously just became even more hardened in his evil ways and in fact was trying to get his acts legalized more broadly and encourage others to follow him.
His final judgment is up to God; but by any objective standard, his life on earth was evil and it is not surprising that it was ended this way.
I am with Randall Terry on this one. I am saddened only in the fact that this “doctor” did not repent and denounce the barbaric act of late term abortions before his death.
In the referenced incident, the lesson is: “Do not try to stop what the Lord wills/ don't mistake your will for the Lord's/and similar; it is NOT a lesson that violence is never justified. Christ NEVER taught that!
This case is more appropriately viewed as an intercession on the behalf of the defenseless against he who would murder them. Although the choice of venue was heinous; the taking of a life to save another’s life is allowed under THE LAW.
Oh, I’ll decry the violence that took this mans life, but don’t think that I equate innocence with guilt. He was allowed far more life than the countless innocent children he executed.
This man chose a life of destruction not life, sadly his murderer did too. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Gee...And here I was thinking it was a Seldon Crisis.
The children are innocent. Tiller was not.
Law embraces the notion of defending a third party. Should the shooter have waited until Tiller was "in the act"? Rather absurd. Tiller was bound to murder again.
Maybe Tiller should have been snatched and held someplace where he could not repeat his atrocities. I'm sure this suggestion, too, would be dismissed as a violation of law.
There are sins of commission and sins of omission. If people truly believe that abortion is murder, then not stopping the murder is to be complicit.
Who would not rejoice in the death of an Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, ...