‘Violence in the name of protesting abortion is immoral, unjustified, and horribly harmful to the pro-life cause. Now, the premeditated murder of Dr. George Tiller in the foyer of his church is the headline scandal — not the abortions he performed and the cause he represented.
‘We have no right to take the law into our own hands in an act of criminal violence. We are not given the right to take this power into our own hands, for God has granted this power to governing authorities. The horror of abortion cannot be rightly confronted, much less corrected, by means of violence and acts outside the law and lawful means of remedy. This is not merely a legal technicality — it is a vital test of the morality of the pro-life movement. . .
‘Murder is murder. The law rightly affirms that the killing of Dr. George Tiller is murder. In this we must agree. We cannot rest until the law also recognizes the killing of the unborn as murder. The killing of Dr. George Tiller makes that challenge all the more difficult.’
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Mohler is right in that his death, and subsequent media coverage, has branded his death a martyrdom.
I was just as horrified to hear an abortion doctor from my hometown of Birmingham, Alabama lump all pro-life supporters into the same category as those who took Tiller's life. She spoke live on CNN this morning, responded to the anchor's question as to whether or not she, as an abortion doctor, could distinguish between those who resort to violence against abortion doctors, and those who are against abortion as a matter of religious and political conviction.
What is that Jesus said? "Shrewd as snakes and innocent as doves..."
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