American Terrorism

This week someone decided they could make a valuable statement about the sanctity of human life by walking into a church and shooting an usher to death in front of his family and children. The assassination of obstetrician George Tiller was a disgusting attack on a law-abiding citizen that should make even the strongest pro-lifers shudder. Randall Terry, a divorced, homophobic pro-life advocate who disowned his gay son (almost as good a role model for people of faith as boob-jobbed, nude model Miss California), made the following infuriating statement:

George Tiller was a mass-murderer. We grieve for him that he did not have time to properly prepare his soul to face God. I am more concerned that the Obama Administration will use Tiller's killing to intimidate pro-lifers into surrendering our most effective rhetoric and actions. Abortion is still murder. And we still must call abortion by its proper name; murder. Those men and women who slaughter the unborn are murderers according to the Law of God.

So why was George Tiller's murder wrong according to Terry? For one it didn't give Tiller a chance to become a Christian. More importantly though, it was a tactical error for pro-lifers who will now be pigeon-holed as fanatics. Terry seems to ignore the fact that a woman and her children just saw their husband and father gunned downed during Sunday services. Excuse me for turning a bit Keith Olbermann here, but there's really only one thing I could possibly say in response to Mr. Terry's irresponsible attitude. But since some of my readers might be offended by vulgarity, suffice to say it's three words, and it rhymes with "cluck blue, Jerry."