Christian Fundamentalist Terrorism.

[ellen_datlow]

I wasn't sure I wanted to post about the assassination because I didn't know how to approach it, but Shannyn Moore says it best and calls it what it is, Christian Fundamentalist Terrorism

via Nathan Ballingrud's facebook page

Comments

[n5red.livejournal.com]

Now that they started it can we have Cthulu murders>

[colubra.livejournal.com]

There's a reason I tend to call these folks 'Christianists', in the same sense of the term 'Islamist'.
If the second coming happened today, I'm pretty sure Yeshua ben Yosef would say 'I don't know these people, I never met these people, and I wish they'd stop using my name.'

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Absolutely!

[punktortoise.livejournal.com]

And the corollary is that, in all likelihood, they wouldn't recognise him either.

[charleeg.livejournal.com]

No they wouldn't. They'd probably shoot him for a damned liberal.
Christianists - I really like that.

[doortoriver.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely. What with His running around *loving* people and not trying to make laws about morality.

[doortoriver.livejournal.com]

WELL said!

[14theditch.livejournal.com]

Well, they value life so much, so the only answer was to kill him. Makes sense, no?

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Right. The hypocrisy of it is mind-boggling.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

There's a reason Homeland Security said our greatest terrorism threats were domestic, not external.

Rightwingwhacko media has a lot to answer for.

Love, C.

[14theditch.livejournal.com]

"Rightwingwhacko media"
Some of the same people who condone torture. These are some righteous mother fuckers.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Yup. The nutters see nothing wrong with murder if it's for their cause:

As news of Roeder's arrest traveled, Kansas City activist Regina Dinwiddie remembered the day a dozen years ago when Roeder hugged her in glee after trying to frighten an abortion provider by staring him down inside a Planned Parenthood clinic.

"He grabbed me and said, 'I've read the Defensive Action Statement and I love what you're doing,' " Dinwiddie said in a telephone interview. She was a signer of the 1990s statement, which declares that the use of force is justified.

"I said, 'You need to get out of here. You can get in a lot of trouble,' " Dinwiddie recalled.

Dinwiddie said she does not consider death of Tiller, the nation's most prominent provider of controversial late-term abortions, to be a homicide.

"I don't think he was murdered. I believe he was absolutely stopped in his tracks and it was long overdue," Dinwiddie said. She declined to say when she last spoke with Roeder.

http://tinyurl.com/kleajo

A painful essay about a painful issue

[ellen_datlow]

This is heartbreaking but important.

My Late-Term Abortion


Thanks to
themadblonde