By Arthur Waskow
Today we mourn the death of Dr. George Tiller, a physician who has been
murdered for making it possible for women to actually use their constitutional
right to choose an abortion.
All honor to Dr.Tiller, who joins the list of martyrs for ethical decency and
human rights, killed for healing with compassion. Dr. Tiller is a
religious martyr in the fullest classical sense, killed in his own church
as he arrived to worship, killed for acting in accord with his religious
commitments and ...
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why this murder bothers me. He admonished me not to be so angry about such matters, that my outrage is an expression of my depression. He went on to criticize Dr. Tiller for performing too many abortions without acknowledging how the television demagogues to whom he listens when he ought to be thinking helped murder Dr. Tiller.
I would send my brother this message from Arthur Waskow, but I think he would call it an act of rage.
How sad to live in a world where the righteous excuse such crime as the murder of a good man in his church.
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