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Mother murders eight-year-old son, claims mercy-killing defense...

by David and Tim Bayly on August 30, 2011 - 5:06pm

The defense sounds insane until you realize this is precisely the explanation tens of millions of mothers have used since 1973 to justify their murder of their unborn babies. His life was sad so I murdered him.

What we want to know is why this defense works with parents who murder their unborn and defective newborn children...

why it works with children who murder their enfeebled elderly parents; but it hasn't yet spread to children whose parents are in a bad marriage or being divorce or parents whose children have acne?

(TB, w/thanks to Kamilla)

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Submitted by Fr. Bill on August 31, 2011 - 3:42am

Reports on these kinds of horrors make me numb. I wonder if they do the same to others. If this woman should prevail with that jury, I'll counsel my children to take steps to move to another country. Seriously. It's already worth considering seriously because of the settled law in the area of sex.

Divorce? Check. Marriage may be cancelled at any time, for any reason, by either party.

Marriage? Uncheck. Put it off. Too expensive. Too fraught with liabilities. Roommates with benefits is so much more convenient. The escape hatch is handier, faster, and less troublesome than marriage. Are your children married with children? Oh? And, why is that?

Gay marriage? Check. It's the law of the land as soon as the Supreme Court declines to rule on it. Where, exactly, is heterosexual marriage protected by the Constitution? You see, for the framers of the Constitution, protecting heterosexual marriage is in the same league as enshrining the wetness of water in the Constitution. So, today, it's legal to trade in dry water. Or gay marriage. Or killing your children because you think life (for them) is just too, too sad.

Abortion? Check. Add to that a license for the killing of children outside the womb. Or the elderly. Or the infirm. Hitler was just a tad too early with his ovens. Today, he'd be a multi-billionaire consultant for pro-choice constituencies. Bummer for him.

Euthanasia? Check. See abortion above.

Governmental death panels rationing health care? Check. See abortion and euthanasia above.

Imprisonment for disagreeing with any of the above state-sanctioned legal options for all citizens? On the drawing boards in the offices of various sex-agenda agencies now. There's nothing more effective than a Cabinet-level Department of Thought and Values for Sexual Equal Opportunity. Sharpen your pencils to check this one after another election cycle or two. Hey, Pastors!! Have you made plans for the time when you're incarcerated for saying that homosexuality is a sin?

You can't make this stuff up. It's beyond satire or ridicule. It's beyond outrage. Who can feel outrage when drowned in a moral sewer? Where, O where, are Jesus and all His angels?

Submitted by Daniel Meyer on August 31, 2011 - 4:25am

>>Who can feel outrage when drowned in a moral sewer?

Maybe the Lord will have a use for my zeal yet, then. Sometimes I swing and miss, and that's embarrassing. But I dare not repudiate the zeal.

If you play trumpet, you've got to play loud. When you miss a note everybody knows it, and you blush but you keep playing loud, because if you're going to play wimpy trumpet you might as well just pack it up.

Don't leave the next generation, fathers in the faith. For now you must stay, if only for us.

Submitted by Fr. Bill on August 31, 2011 - 7:22am

"Don't leave the next generation, fathers in the faith. For now you must stay, if only for us."

I'll risk embarrassing myself by responding as if this had anything to do with me. In such a case, I'm going nowhere. Too old, for one thing. Too little time left in this vale of tears to worry about what might come to pass for myself.

I am selfishly anxious for the lifetimes of the next generation or two -- for they include my children and (as yet unborn) grandchildren. And, at least I'll not find myself lonesome in this anxiety among believers over the centuries at different periods of history. I think, for example, of the Pilgrims who fled first to the Netherlands and later to New England for -- in principle -- the same kind of reasons I'd counsel my kids to look for less fetid swamps in which to build their marriages and families and the future societies built on top of them.

Another period comes to mind -- when there were only 7,000 left in Israel who had not succumbed to Baal worship. And, you know what? Those people were "invisible" to God's prophet, who thought himself utterly alone. There come times when not only is the Word of God rare, but also those who actually remember it from the days when it sounded in the land.

Another figure comes to mind as I'm ruminating on all this: Polycarp in the Coliseum, facing the crowds jeering "Away with the atheists!" at him and other Christians appointed for the beasts and the pyres. Urged by the Proconsul to take up their cry as his own, he stares steadfastly at the ranks upon ranks of pagans howling in the stands and says "Away with the atheists."

It's an old saw of missiology that the blood of the martyrs waters the seeds of the gospel. Maybe that's how revival will come to this country.

Submitted by Daniel Meyer on August 31, 2011 - 8:26am

>> as if this had anything to do with me

You are one of the ones I had in mind. Thankful to God for you.

Submitted by Eliza on September 1, 2011 - 2:17am

I remember a particular column by Joe Sobran against abortion that likened it to something like this: Abortion because my child may be underprivileged is like saying my kid won't grow up to be a great football player so I think I'll shoot him.

It's all coming true as the pro-life prognosticators said years ago. Harold O. J. Brown said the same types of things.

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