Dr. E, NOBODY on this forum EVER advocated for Tiller to be gunned down. But now that he has been gunned down, we have to deal with the consequences of the act. What are the consequences? Well to start with there have been no late term abortions in the State of Kansas since 5/31/09.
I suspect it was God's sovereign will that there would be no late term abortions this last 7 days. I suspect that while God does not take pleasure at the death of the wicked, the heavens have rejoiced at the lives that have been spared since Roeder took the law into his own hands.
I cannot condemn Roeder for what he did because I have many times called Abortion "murder" and in that sense I have many times fueled the very fire that burned within him. I would have preferred that God had taken him out with a bolt of lightning or with fire from heaven, but he didn't.
While I too take no pleasure in the death of Tiller, I cannot say that I have for even one second contemplated that idea that I am sorry that he is dead. I could no more weep for Tiller than I could weep for the Nazi guards at Buchenwald or Dachau. And less human beings were slaughtered at either of those facilities than were slaughtered at the Tiller clinic in Wichita.
I pray that someday there will be a memorial to the 60,000 innocent lives that were butchered on the spot where that horrid "clinic" now stands. Likewise I hope that there may also be a plaque at the "Church" where Tiller met his maker commemorating the end of a violent holocaust.
But I am not optimistic. The pro-life movement, such as it is, is apparently calling for Roeder's blood while at the same time crying crocodile tears over the greatest serial murderer this planet has ever seen. Where is their call for mercy and forgiveness of Roeder's actions? That would be politically incorrect. The politically correct position is that Roeder can't be executed fast enough and the call from the Abortions Rights people and the Right to Life people sounds eerily idential. Politics makes for strange bedfellows.
Absolutely awesome point, P-M! Why are pro-life organizations, spokespersons, and commentators NOT calling for forgiveness and mercy for Roeder?
Have they forgotten who they are and what they've advocated. From pro-life groups to O'Reilly they ALL have called abortion MURDER. Now their words have come home to roost, and they're the ones lining up asking for a Roeder Roast.
Hypocrites are those who are unwilling to face the predictable consequences of their own actions. Given their OWN ACTIONS, their words about murder of in utero babies, they should be asking for mercy/forgiveness for Roeder, who they led astray, or who they admit is a casualty of a verbal war.
My point was that I take great "pleasure" in the fact Tiller is no longer breathing, but I disagree with the manner which accomplished that fact.