Posted on 01/29/2010 9:49:10 AM PST by FutureRocketMan
WICHITA, Kan. — A man who said he killed prominent Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in order to save the lives of unborn children was convicted Friday of murder.
The jury deliberated for just 37 minutes before finding Scott Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, Mo., guilty of premeditated, first-degree murder in the May 31 shooting death.
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Sorry, but if you kill the rule of law, you murder us all, and are no better than George Tiller.
This is where the whole idea of “abortion is murder and war is not” comes in. This is why this case should have wnet farther up the chain of command. Abortion is such a hot-button issue, as is this Tiller’s evasion of the law, that there is no justifiable way to try Roeder without mentioning abortion itself.
First of all, just because the law says something is ok doesn’t mean in morally is. Remember, this country is based on Judeo-Christian principles. When slavery was legal, it was still morally wrong. Abortion is legal, but morally wrong. Vigilantism is illegal, but arguably moral.
This is why you and I would never able to be able to actually discuss this issue. IMHO, premeditated murderers (which Roeder is one) are far more of a threat to society, and represent a far greater evil than your run of the mill murderer. I vote that Kansas just fries him and gets it over with.
that’s surprising. I didn’t think any state in the mid-west/southwest stopped the death penalty.
Sorry, ‘Murder’ is a legal term, like it or not. ‘Killing’ is not a legal term and can be used accurately for both.
which makes this case disgustingly biased, right?
The only way to have an impartial trial was for the procedures that Tiller preformed described in court. most of that jury probably didn’t realize the bloodiness of late term abortions, and that would no doubt have changed the verdict.
He was talking with fellow ushers in the back of the church, not even listening to the sermon. That’s repentence? no, i think that’s disrespect to God, no matter what church he went to.
Yep, Heaven with 100 virgins too.
But, you 'pro-lifers' are thinking very small scale. You forget the doctor’s assistants and the ultimate criminal is, the mother. It is she and she alone that gets to make the ultimate decision to kill her baby. Why let the others off the hook? Maybe to really call yourself ‘prolife’ you might thinks of eliminating them all at once. To do that you may have to sacrifice your life at the same time. But think of Heaven with those 100 virgins.
Is it possible that the governor will? I am not familiar with Kansas election rules (whether the lieutenant is like the vice-president or elected seperately) so i don’t know if the current gov is conservative or sebelius II.
Great! I love it!
Fine, I will be the first (up to this point in my reading comments): Roeder is a HERO, and should be COMMENDED for his SAVING unborn CHILDREN. GOD BLESS SCOTT ROEDER and his family.
by the way, if anyone is pro-life and in the army, it is like scott killing Tiller.
AMEN.
These nutcases are candy for the liberals to claim all conservatives are nuts too. They are calling him a soldier. My comment :
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2440165/posts?page=450#450
That being said, the state also bears the power of the sword (Romans 13), and if Tiller had been judicially executed under a law which made performing late-term abortions a capital crime, I'd have been entirely cool with that.
Ah, such a lovely expression of the Christian spirit....
“He was talking with fellow ushers in the back of the church, not even listening to the sermon. That’s repentence? no, i think that’s disrespect to God, no matter what church he went to.”
If that is the case, you can explain it to the Kansas Parole Board in the winter of 2035.
What I find most disturbing is that of all these comments praising Roeder’s actions, no one seems to be bothered with the fact Roeder killed Tiller in a church! Of all the places that Roeder could have chosen to execute Tiller, he chose to put a bullet in the man’s brain while he was praying. And you think that this speaks of “Roeder’s service in a Holy Cause”?
When I’ve helped clean our church our priest wouldn’t even let me kill a spider in the church, because God’s Sacrifice in giving His Only Begotten Son Who was Crucified, is the ONLY Sacrifice that has a place there.
While I can understand — if not agree with the idea that Roeder saw he and Tiller as combatants in a war for unborn lives, the very fact that he took Tiller out while the man was in church praying, tells me that there was nothing about this action that can be justified or “pleasing to God”!
That's a hell of a difference from what is being said to readers here in many 'prolifer' replies :”Go kill them yourselves because they murder”: #450
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