Painting with a broad brush

I wasn't going to write about this. Until I read this:

If anyone is in need of salvation now, it’s the anti-abortion movement in Kansas and across the nation.

As Terry’s statement makes clear, the bullet that killed George Tiller also shattered the moral underpinnings of the movement that inspired its firing.

I'll be the first to admit this issue, like many other controversies, causes some self-professed Christians to say and do some very un-Christlike things. That alone does not negate the "moral underpinnings" of the pro-life position. The logic employed by this writer, if applied equitably, would discredit the Obama administration's leftist agenda, with its ties to people like Bill Ayers, who express regret only that they weren't violent enough in their heyday.

Just as the Oklahoma City bombing years ago was used to marginalize anyone who thinks Uncle Sam needs to be reminded who works for whom, this event will now be trotted out to make anathema anyone who dares assert that abortion ends a human life. Already, the Associated Press dutifully published a list of ten aggressive acts against abortionists over the past 16 years. Nowhere in their convenient summary, however, is there a mention of how many millions of children never saw the light of day during that same period.

Pro-abortionists will claim all the denouncements from pro-life groups amount to a "no true Scotsman" argument. But in this case it should be easy enough to deduce that pro-life cannot, by definition, condone murder. Whatever the gunman thought he was doing, he violated God's command not to murder... the same commandment the victim was guilty of, thousands of times over.

What happened Sunday was wrong, period. But with that admission, let's not forget the victim made a specific career of ending the lives of pre-born children, many of whom were only weeks from breathing their first breath. Groups like Planned Parenthood will try to make him out as a saint. He may have died serving as a church usher, but the fruit of his work revealed a seared conscience.

As a nation, we have so embraced death we think nothing of waging preemptive war, legally encouraging suicide, destroying children in their mothers' wombs, or becoming vigilantees for a cause. Such a culture must inevitably destroy itself. May God forgive us for what we've become.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. -- Thomas Jefferson