I can't believe I approve of something Sarah Palin said.

In response to the murder of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, Sarah Palin has issued a statement: "I feel sorrow for the Tiller family. I respect the sanctity of life and the tragedy that took place today in Kansas clearly violates respect for life. This murder also damages the positive message of life, for the unborn, and for those living. Ask yourself, 'What will those who have not yet decided personally where they stand on this issue take away from today's event in Kansas?' Regardless of my strong objection to Dr. Tiller's abortion practices, violence is never an answer in advancing the pro-life message."

Considering I read other responses this morning that stated that this action was fine by the "Law of God", I'm really relieved that Governor Palin has the good sense to denounce this horrific act. As far as I've read so far, Bill O'Reilly has not yet responded.  He has been on a personal crusade against Dr. Tiller for years, calling him a murderer and "Tiller the baby killer" as well as many other horrible things. 

When are people going to realize that this crazy, raising hell sort of faux-journalism only leads to trouble and is really out of hand.  I'm interested to see what O'Reilly's response to this will be.  Will he be reasonable and say directly to his listeners that violence is NEVER the answer and that in no way should his entertainment news show be taken as instructions to commit violence?  Or will he say that his free speech rights are being threatened because he called out the doctor as he saw him to be?  Let's hope it's the former, but I'm not really hopeful.

I'm getting to a point where I really don't want to live in the country that is producing and spewing all this hatred and hate-speech.  I really need to see a turnaround.  I need to see the reasonable, intelligent people stand up and be counted.  We can agree to disagree - that's fine.  I don't need everyone to be pro-choice.  What I do need is for everyone to stop trying to impose their personal and religious beliefs on others and remember that this is a country where we support each other and applaud hard work and value a diversity of experiences and beliefs.

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[tarasg]

I feel the exact same way. Great post.