[MineralMan]

Well, that'll do the pro-life movement a lot of good. Every time something like this happens, or someone kills a doctor or someone else, the pro-life movement takes it in the shorts.

Way to go, dudes.

[jwalsh07]

Detectives could not say for sure that the arson fire and vandalism at Dr. Michael Benjamin's Tamarac office was the work of political or religious extremists, but the case was assigned to the department's elite Strategic Investigations Unit, which handles the largest and most complex investigations.

But you certainly have no such compunction to fire up the straw and prepare the gallows for the evil pro life community.

[Colofornian]

Well, that'll do the pro-life movement a lot of good. Every time something like this happens, or someone kills a doctor or someone else, the pro-life movement takes it in the shorts.

An arsonist isn't exactly the sword I want to die on to defend. But this reflexive pro-life rep defensiveness tends to bother me a bit. Will we forever being putting forth as the highest ideal that we need to protect the pro-life community's reputation at the continued expense of babies, or will we protect babies at the eventual expense of our reputation?

I at least note that when Jesus chose Simon the Zealot (and Zealots believed in killing Romans in defense of their homeland), Scripture didn't then refer to him as Simon the ex-Zealot.