The Gaytheist Agenda

I don’t like abortion. Who does? The claim that some make, that those who advocate choice are “pro-abortion” is an outright lie. Nobody is pro-abortion. Many people are pro-choice, even though they may not like the idea of abortion itself. I am one of those people.

I would prefer that abortion were never a necessity. I would like it if birth control were so widely available, affordable (free if necessary) and properly used that no woman ever became pregnant unless she wanted to. Were it up to me every child would have age-appropriate comprehensive sex education beginning in middle school. The notion that “just say no–and condoms are evil” will keep them from having sex is as ludicrous as pretending that if you don’t teach your kids to swim and you tell them lifejackets will make them drown they’ll never get in a pool.

Would that eliminate unintended pregnancies? Of course not. But it would drastically reduce them and drop the rate of women seeking abortions to near-zero, which would be a very good thing. Now on to the actual story:

WICHITA, Kan. — George Tiller, a Wichita doctor who was one of the few doctors in the nation to perform late-term abortions, was shot to death on Sunday as he attended church, city officials in Wichita said.

Dr. Tiller, who had performed abortions since the 1970s, had long been a lightning rod for controversy over the issue of abortion, particularly in Kansas, where abortion opponents regularly protested outside his clinic and sometimes his home and church. In 1993, he was shot in both arms by an abortion opponent but recovered.
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The shooting occurred at around 10 a.m. (Central time) at Reformation Lutheran Church on the city’s East Side, Dr. Tiller’s regular church.

Wichita police said that the shots were fired from a handgun in the church lobby during the morning service. The authorities gave few details, but said they were searching for a powder blue Taurus made in the 1990s that had been seen leaving shortly after the shooting. They said witnesses had described seeing a white man departing.
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Leaders of national abortion rights organizations, meanwhile, expressed outrage. Some described Dr. Tiller as one of the only doctors in the nation who performed third trimester abortions when the life or health of a mother was at stake, and said that his death would make it even harder for women in such circumstances to end their pregnancies.
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A suspect, Scott Roeder–associated with the group “Operation Rescue”, was later arrested.

 

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Wichita police said that the suspect was arrested without incident on I-35 in Johnson County about three hours after the shooting following a statewide broadcast description of the suspect and the car he was driving.
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Police said it appeared Roeder ted alone and that they are are investigating whether he had any connection to anti-abortion groups.

Police on Sunday said they expect the man to face a charge of murder and two counts of aggravated battery.
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Roeder has a rather colorful history and needless to say Operation Rescue is in overdrive trying to distance themselves from this event and pretend they’re all about nonviolence. In fact at this time their entire site is down and undoubtedly being scrubbed of any posts by Roeder and possibly even their “Tiller Watch” section. Needless to say it will be quite interesting to see what the police investigation uncovers.

For more on the matter read my lovely wife’s post on the Newswire.

I’m just constantly amazed how some people “of faith” can justify anything by saying they’re doing it in the name of God.

 

The hateful yet somehow amusing Phelps family had planned to protest the funeral of Heath Ledger for his role as a gay man in Brokeback Mountain. The only problem? They were unable to discover where the funeral was being held. Their lust for attention is so strong that they released this Open Letter to Heath Ledger’s family. You simply must read it, it’s a doozy.

Westboro Baptist Church
(WBC Chronicles - Since 1955)
3701 SW 12th St. Topeka, Kansas 66604 785-273-0325 www.godhatesfags.com
Religious Opinion and Bible Commentary on Current Events
Monday,January28,2008

Open Letter to the Family of
Heath Ledger
Dear friends:

For misguided reasons you are hiding the body of Heath
Ledger, and refusing to divulge the time, date, and place of his
burial in Perth, Australia, so that we at Westboro Baptist
Church cannot attend - in respectful proximity - and conduct a
religious service.

“Religious service”. So that’s what you’re calling it now.

Please reconsider. For the following reasons:

1) Heath would want us to appear - in religious protest and
warning to the living - that they should repent, “lest they also
come into this place of torment.” Lk. 16:28. Like the rich man
in Hell in Luke 16, Heath is pleading even now for somebody on
earth to preach the truth to his family, lest they join him in Hell.

2) Heath himself could come back to life for a brief period to
speak to his loved ones on earth, he would lift up his voice in a
hideous scream, to wit: “Listen to Phelps! For God’s sake,
Listen to Phelps.”

He would? Then why didn’t he appear to you in a dream and tell you where his funeral was being held?

3) You owe it to the youth of the world, whom Heath misled via
“Brokeback Mountain” into believing it was OK to be gay. I
say, you owe it to the youth ofthe world to use Heath’s funeral
to correct that lie. It’s NOT OK to be gay. It is a great sin
against God. It will destroy the life and damn the soul. All
those whom Heath misled will arrive ultimately in Hell, and
they will curse Heath to his face throughout all eternity.
Please tell us the time, date, and place of Heath’s funeral in
Australia. Thank you.

Despite the hateful bile the Phelps family spews, they’re becoming an outright joke. I find it hard to believe even they take themselves seriously any longer. Their claims are so far over the top that any rational person would be compelled to almost laugh in their faces. Sooner or later they will burn out with the combination of their obsession with gays and their need for the spotlight. With luck they’ll take a few of their companion haters with them.