George Tiller was shot to death in church this morning.<\/a> He was a monster who justified what he did by the good ends he claimed he was aiming for.<\/p>\nIn that, he was a kindred spirit with the person who murdered him.<\/p>\n
In our present cultural climate, it is quite possible that the man who did this just murdered the pro-life movement. It won\u2019t take much more for Caesar to decide that not all terrorists are Islamic and begin to strip prolifers of the protections of law \u201cto keep us safe\u201d. He would be wrong, of course, to do it. But fools who are inclined to cheer for (or, more commonly, makes excuses for) this act of evil should bear in mind the fact that it doesn\u2019t much matter if Caesar is wrong when he owns all the guns, police, and prisons.<\/p>\n
I sometimes fear that one of the only consolations of my old age will be sitting in a jail cell as a \u201csuspected prolife theocratic extremist\u201d with other innocent Christians who formerly cheered for consequentialism and saying, \u201cToldja so.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf anyone has an urge to kill someone at an abortion clinic, they should shoot me. \u2026 It\u2019s madness. It discredits the right-to-life movement. Murder is murder. It\u2019s madness. You cannot prevent killing by killing.\u201d \u2013 John Cardinal O\u2019Connor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n