Frank Schaeffer: How I (and Other "Pro-Life" Leaders) Contributed to Dr. Tiller's Murder

[babylonsister]

Frank Schaeffer

New York Times best-selling author
Posted: June 1, 2009 12:34 PM
How I (and Other "Pro-Life" Leaders) Contributed to Dr. Tiller's Murder



My late father and I share the blame (with many others) for the murder of Dr. George Tiller the abortion doctor gunned down on Sunday. Until I got out of the religious right (in the mid-1980s) and repented of my former hate-filled rhetoric I was both a leader of the so-called pro-life movement and a part of a Republican Party hate machine masquerading as the moral conscience of America.

In the late 1970s my evangelical pro-life leader father Francis Schaeffer and Dr. C. Everett Koop (who soon become Surgeon General in the Reagan administration) went on the road with me taking the documentary antiabortion film series I produced and directed ( Whatever Happened to the Human Race?) to the evangelical public. The series and companion book eventually brought millions of heretofore non-political evangelical Americans into the antiabortion crusade. We personally also got people like Jerry Falwell, Ronald Reagan and countless Republican leaders involved in the "issue."

In the early 80s my father followed up with a book that sold over a million copies called A Christian Manifesto. In certain passages he advocated force if all other methods for rolling back the abortion ruling of Roe v. Wade failed. He compared America and its legalized abortion to Hitler's Germany and said that whatever tactics would have been morally justified in removing Hitler would be justified in trying to stop abortion. I said the same thing in a book I wrote (A Time For Anger) that right wing evangelicals made into a best seller. For instance Dr. James Dobson (of the Focus On the Family radio show) gave away over 100,000 copies.

Like many writers of moral/political/religious theories my father and I would have been shocked that someone took us at our word, walked into a Lutheran Church and pulled the trigger on an abortionist. But even if the murderer never read Dad's or my words we helped create the climate that made this murder likely to happen.

more...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/how-i-and-other-pro-life_b_209747.html

[kestrel91316]

1. Mr. Schaeffer, the only appropriate action for you to take at this time is

change your will to name Planned Parenthood as your sole heir and then commit suicide. Preferably in the old Japanese way, with a sharp implement. Because you and your soulmates are guilty as hell of MURDER.

This is the part where you lost me, you sorry SOB: "......As I say in my book today I believe that abortion should be legal but more regulated than Roe allows......"

[babylonsister]

2. Just wow. I admire his honesty. Go figure. nt

[kestrel91316]

3. AFAIAC he's no more pro-choice than Randall Terry. He's just good

at making himself look good. He favors increased restrictions on abortions, and thinks Roe v Wade is too permissive. He can bite me.

[babylonsister]

4. I'm more familiar with him from all the articles he's written...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/searchG/?cx=partner-pub-3264687723376607%3Atlvacw-gkue&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Frank+Schaeffer&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&sa=Search#1379

And this one stands out, from May 18:

Obama and Abortion: Escaping the Left/Right Divide
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/obama-and-abortion-escapi_b_204791.html

[kestrel91316]

9. He certainly talks a good talk, and he even had me cheering for him

for a while. But he states that he favors increased restrictions on abortion and he feels that Roe V Wade went too far, and he completely lost me with that.

[hlthe2b]

6. No... We NEED him speaking out....

THe RW fundies will, in many cases, listen to him. He speaks their language and his frankness leaves the Repug assholes no room to spin.

[babylonsister]

7. Thank you! nt

[corpseratemedia]

5. wow he's also telling it like it is on rachel..warning about further bigger attacks

from the terrorist christian far right..


that the words they're using lead to assasination

I am thankful he is speaking out, I bet he gets a lot of threats from his former base.

[babylonsister]

8. Yes, she's inspiring.

:evilgrin: