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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Amen
"Whoever murdered George Tiller has done a gravely wicked thing. The evil of this action is in no way diminished by the blood George Tiller had on his own hands. No private individual had the right to execute judgment against him. We are a nation of laws. Lawless violence breeds only more lawless violence. Rightly or wrongly, George Tilller was acquitted by a jury of his peers. "Vengeance is mine, says the Lord.' For the sake of justice and right, the perpetrator of this evil deed must be prosecuted, convicted, and punished. By word and deed, let us teach that violence against abortionists is not the answer to the violence of abortion. Every human life is precious. George Tiller's life was precious. We do not teach the wrongness of taking human life by wrongfully taking a human life."
-- Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Amen
"Whoever murdered George Tiller has done a gravely wicked thing. The evil of this action is in no way diminished by the blood George Tiller had on his own hands. No private individual had the right to execute judgment against him. We are a nation of laws. Lawless violence breeds only more lawless violence. Rightly or wrongly, George Tilller was acquitted by a jury of his peers. "Vengeance is mine, says the Lord.' For the sake of justice and right, the perpetrator of this evil deed must be prosecuted, convicted, and punished. By word and deed, let us teach that violence against abortionists is not the answer to the violence of abortion. Every human life is precious. George Tiller's life was precious. We do not teach the wrongness of taking human life by wrongfully taking a human life."
-- Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University
1 comment:
My posted comment on Religious Dispatches:
"Dr. Tiller was already the victim of a hate-crime assault in which the perpetrator received only a mild penalty. The assassination of Dr. Tiller undermines the health and well-being of women and it happens against a backdrop of religious chauvinism voiced in long dead religious ideology.
"Opponents of reproductive freedom shout meaningless slogans about what defines a human being. When the world leader of the largest religious denomination in the United States takes time in person to greet into that denomination the notorious demagogue Russell Terry into his church, he sends support to those who hurt women by murdering their physicians. Shame on the church that does this."
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