Randall Terry should be water boarded.

Yesterday, after the brutal assassination of Dr. George Tiller, President Obama released the following statement:

I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence.

It was a relief to hear the word "outraged" even though the statement itself was appropriately measured. It Bush were still in office, I'd fear a "chickens coming home to roost" type statement, which would, of course, make my head EXPLODE. I mean, rocket, clear off my neck.

The thing of it is, I don't want measured. I want someone, anyone, to stand up and call it like it is. These anti-choice people are religious fundamentalist terrorists, period. There will be no reasoning with them, there will be no middle ground, and they won't stop.


Anti-Choice demonstration in Toronto, 2007. They didn't like me taking their picture. Which begs the question, if you don't want attention, why aren't you just off praying somewhere?

But we're measured. Because that's how you win the argument, right? Tell that to Randall Terry, head honcho at Operation Rescue and de facto anti-choice leader:

George Tiller was a mass-murderer. We grieve for him that he did not have time to properly prepare his soul to face God. I am more concerned that the Obama Administration will use Tiller's killing to intimidate pro-lifers into surrendering our most effective rhetoric and actions. Abortion is still murder. And we still must call abortion by its proper name; murder. Those men and women who slaughter the unborn are murderers according to the Law of God.

My articulate response to this? Get your pens ready. "Aaargghhuuuhhh." I have lost all will to try and come up with a reasonable, measured argument against people who are CRAZY and get a seat at the table. Why do these religious nuts, these men (SO many of them are) get any say about what women choose to do with their bodies? Why do we have to react in a measured way when one of them goes off the reservation and commits murder? They shot a man, point blank, in the head while he was in the lobby of his church. In front of his family and his community. A man who has been living with the threats for decades. A man who was shot twice 16 years ago and still continued to show up for work every day and provide health care to the women who needed it.

What we are dealing with here is not just a feminist issue, this is a civil rights issue...a human rights issue. And the sooner we all stop being pushed around by people who claim that "God" is on their side, the sooner it will actually be a fair fight.