The news has been filled with coverage over the trial of the man who murdered the notorious late-term abortion doctor George Tiller. Scott Roeder was found guilty yesterday of first-degree murder for shooting Tiller. Tiller was an usher at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Kansas where he was handing out bulletins to people before he was shot on May 31, 2009.The man convicted in the murder of the so-called abortion doctor was filled with reasons why he did what he did. You can read that in other places. His religious history is to say the least -- convoluted and just plain weird. There have been those who have ventured that this was in some ways, at least, a righteous killing of a man who killed unrighteously. Though few would venture such an opinion in print, conversations often included things we would not sign our name to in public.
But it must be said up front that this man did no favor for God or for those who stand against the heinous immorality of abortion. He proved only that those who are pro-life are also willing to make exceptions and that the years of good work done to witness against this cult of death can be undone very quickly when one person acts with violence that is supposed to do good.
There is no glory here... not for a doctor who stood by his flawed principles to carry out even late term abortions because it was a legal right... not for a Lutheran congregation who welcomed him after another Lutheran congregation could not allow him to remain when his business and his practice so conflicted with their pro-life stance... not for the pro-life cause which is precisely against the choosing of one or some lives over others... not for the pro-choice cause whose nice sounding words about choice were scattered with blood when the details of this doctor's practice were revealed... not for the courts where this man willingly and happily accepted responsibility for this crime... not for anyone...
But for those who cause is life, the fight will continue... It will take some time before the pro-life people and our perspective are no longer painted with the broad brush of this murderer. It will take some time before the people of Reformation Lutheran Church get back to normal -- though a normal in which a doctor such as he was had been accepted without much more than a superficial reflection of what his presence meant is not a good normal to return to. It will take some time before the focus can be lifted from these two men and back where it needs to be -- on the million plus infants whose lives are taken before their first breath of this world's air. For, in spite of all the things that have and have not been said, it is this group of innocents who remain the true and lasting victims of the moral stain that has diminished the high stature of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness enshrined upon our American life and identity...
"It will take some time before the people of Reformation Lutheran Church get back to normal -- though a normal in which a doctor such as he was had been accepted without much more than a superficial reflection of what his presence meant is not a good normal to return to."
ReplyDeleteReformation Lutheran Church is, and was not, normal (in the normal, and Lutheran, sense of the word) - it was and is a blasphemy in its acceptance of the genocidal abortionist's membership and, as a congregation, being a member of the E_CA and in proclaiming a woman as a pastor.
As for Scott Roeder, he has confessed to and been found guilty of committing murder. His efforts instead, along with those of pro-life organizations, should have been in advocating and promoting a Nuremberg-style trial, conviction, and sentencing of George Tiller and other major medical, political, judicial, and business leaders involved in the abortion holocaust, on charges of crimes against humanity, genocide, and treason.
If pro-life organizations do not begin to advocate, support, and demand such Nuremberg-style trials for justice against the thousands of pro-abortion leaders, they obliterate their own moral claim to being opposed to murder-by-abortion, and reduce their pro-life preference to an equivalent one of chosing appropriate-colored socks to put on. If abortion is wrong because it is murder - and it is, on a genocidal scale - rather than wearing the wrong color of socks, then a pro-life position must truly be a decision for justice.