Shooting the messenger

Published: July 24, 2007, 2:13 pm

Tags: life issues, marriage family, politics government, religion society, sexual ethics

ASSIST News Service reports on that German theologian who received a one-year jail sentence for drawing a comparison between abortion and the Holocaust. As you may remember, Johannes Lerle asserts that infanticide in the womb--which takes place 200,000 times a year in Germany--is comparable to the murder of Jews at the hands of the Nazis. Lerle has also served time for referring to abortionists as "professional killers." Lerle's logic cannot be faulted: Killing the innocent is killing the innocent, whether those slated for death reside in death camps or death wombs. And a hit man is a hit man whether his target is a political enemy or a fetus turning sommersaults. What is really going on here, I suspect, has little to do with Lerle's supposed Holocaust denial and everything to do with outrage over someone having the gall to tell the truth about abortion and those who commit it. In an upcoming BreakPoint commentary on another subject, Chuck describes the spiritual battles

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