As many of you have now heard, the late-term abortionist Dr. George Tiller was shot in a vigilante execution yesterday, while he was serving as an usher at Reformation Lutheran. A suspect named Scott Roeder is now in custody.
And of course, all those who hate ungodly revolutionary violence need to condemn this execution, and all others like it. But that is not all they should do, and more on that in a minute. But first, the condemnation — back in the mid-nineties, we were facing some similar circumstances. Paul Hill fancied himself a pro-life John Brown, heir of the radical abolitionists, and wound up murdering an abortionist in Florida. One of the reasons we published the Southern Slavery booklet back then was because we were trying to counter the idea that abolitionist violence is something God approves. In reality, abolitionist violence is only a good thing after 100 years of textbook lies have sanitized it.
That said, let us now step into the morass of relativist lies promulgated throughout our judicially blinded culture. [Warning: there are some readers of this blog who are incapable of following nuance, and so I have to issue a formal sarcasm alert, lest somebody get the whole thing arsy varsy.] Sure, we condemn the murder of Tiller now, like good citizens, but we will only do so unless and until the targeted murder of such individuals is determined by the Supreme Court to be a consitutional right we didn’t know we had. Turns out they found it in a recently discovered penumbra somewhere. Once they say it is okay, we will all immediately shut up about it, right?
Well, no, because the Supreme Court doesn’t have the authority to declare murder okay, and only ghastly human beings like Tiller think they do. When such men take the Supremes up on their invitation to any slaughter that has been given the legal okay, they are helping to create a society in which lawlessness reigns. They cooperate with those who frame mischief with a law. But once this lawlessness has taken root, the bright boys running everything start to discover that lawlessness has certain shortcomings as a social theory.
One last comment. The fact that Tiller was a member of Reformation Lutheran pretty much sums up everything that is wrong with our nation. But even this highlights another interesting feature. If the suspect Roeder in fact is the guilty party, and is a member of a conservative church somewhere, the chances are pretty good that he will be excommunicated (as Paul Hill was) for his bloody ways. The chances that someone like Tiller would be excommunicated from a liberal church for his bloodlust are chances approaching zero.