Dr. George Tiller was murdered this morning as he walked into his church to attend regular weekly services.
Killed at a church, of all places. How could his murderer miss the irony in that action? Did he think that it was somehow fitting? Or was it simply a place where he could more easily get close enough to Tiller to kill him?
Whatever you think of Dr Tiller’s work, he was a brave man who stood up for his principals in the face of decades of threats and violence. Reasonable people can disagree about abortion. But there’s simply no justification at all for killing someone that you disagree with.
He didn’t deserve this.
UPDATE: If you’re so inclined, I’d suggest making a donation to Medical Students for Choice in Dr Tiller’s memory.
Christians regularily kill people who they think are interperting the sayings of the Carpenter wrong. Other religions also seem to kill co-religionists for parallel reasons, but I was’t raised in them. It is why I left Christianity at about age 15. Thinks deep south, segragation and freedom rides, not to mention lunch counters and HUAC.
Roger Williams, who was about as rabid a Puritan as you could find, was of the opinion that people that interperted Christ wrong were going to burn in hell for eternity and that should be enough punishment. As a result RI was open to everybody.