[markomalley]

That's a very interesting piece of information that adds a whole lot.

[icwhatudo]

“Also, the pro-life people who are quoted in the story are of the Randall Terry variety. “

You mean the ones who do more than put a bumper sticker on their car?

[markomalley]

This article has a very, very interesting update.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Over here!

Thought an ELCA apostate would appreciate this!

[Jeffrey_D.]

This “missing” information was pointed out quite frequently here at FR on that Sunday.

I guess Mollie Ziegler doesn’t Freep?

[pray4liberty]

God teaches us in Romans 13 and other places, that the government is in place to enforce justice.

Which did not happen, as George Tiller had the best government money could buy.

So (karmic) judgment was exercised in the House of the Lord.

[lightman]

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Glory to the Holy Trinity!

[firebrand]

Dr. Tiller, a former member of a Missouri Synod congregation, was excommunicated by that congregation for his abortion practice.

"The kingdom of heaven was nigh unto you."

[Redleg Duke]

As someone who left the ELCA for the LCMS, while the murder of this abortionist is reprehensible, the actions of my new synod in his case fill be with confirmation of the rightness of my decision back in 2005 to leave the ELCA.

The ELCA provides medical coverage for its employees that includes coverage for abortion procedures. The ELCA is no longer a Christian Church in my eyes but a left wing political organization.

[Charles Henrickson]

Mollie Ziegler Hemingway has been a friend of mine for probably close to ten years. In fact, Mollie was the one who first told me about Free Republic! That was back in November 2000, after I had just written a parody about the recount called "The Palm Beach Pokey," and Mollie told me it was getting a lot of attention on a site called "Free Republic." That's how I became a Freeper! (I don't know if Mollie is herself a registered Freeper or, if she is, what her screen name is.)

Mollie is the daugher of an LCMS pastor, and her husband, Mark Hemingway, writes for National Review Online (many of his columns have been posted here).

Mollie Z. Hemingway and I (Charles Henrickson) both have blogs--on the battle for confessional Lutheranism within the Missouri Synod--at the Brothers of John the Steadfast website, steadfastlutherans.org.

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[redgolum]

As a life long Mo Lu, the article says something to me that isn't as clear to someone ‘outside’.

Tiller wouldn't have been given a bull of excommunication by surprise. He would have been confronted first in private, then in the presence of a few witnesses, then maybe in the parish council (not always the last one).

In other words, he had to have been pretty flagrant to get excommunicated.

[Wilhelm Tell]

I had hoped that there would be stories exploring Tiller's religious beliefs and church membership and that the stories would explain the difference between the ELCA and the LCMS..

It is probably just as well. The media are lazy and agenda-driven. They could not do a neutral, descriptive story even if they wanted to. At the least, they would have dismissed the LCMS as a small "fringe" group that is "against women." They would falsely say the LCMS is "fundamentalist." That is the best you could expect. At the worst, they would do a hit piece on the LCMS. People with any discernment at all would see through it but it would be ugly. Then again, people who have never heard of confessional Lutheranism might check out the LCMS with the idea that anything the mainstream media hate must have something good about it or the media would not hate it.

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[Alex Murphy]

What none of these stories have explained is that Tiller had previously been excommunicated by a Lutheran congregation on account of his lack of repentance about and refusal to stop his occupation. That Lutheran congregation was a member of my church body, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

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[Star Traveler]

You said — That’s a very interesting piece of information that adds a whole lot.

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Yes, indeed...

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