Re: [UUPoly-L] Dr. George Tiller's Murder

[Maria Snyder <miss_faery_maria@yahoo.com>]

While I don't know about all the poly groups that were copied on this, I do think that this is an issue that is near and dear to many UU's, as Dr.Tiller stood up for reproductive rights. As a Kansan, a UU, a Dir. of Religious Ed., and a mom I am interested in the topic and I think that Christine's thoughts are relevent to at least the UU group. 
 
Maria 

--- On Sun, 5/31/09, CWLee <cwlee@post.harvard.edu> wrote:


From: CWLee <cwlee@post.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [UUPoly-L] Dr. George Tiller's Murder
To: uupoly-l@uupa.org, KanPoly@yahoogroups.com, OKPoly@yahoogroups.com, mwpoly@yahoogroups.com, harp@yahoogroups.com, wnypoly@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, May 31, 2009, 11:13 PM



OK, here are my comments:

1.  Murder is a crime.  The suspect(s) deserves a fair trial 
and, if found guilty, punishment.  I generally favor capital 
punishment for murder.

2.  I know of no connection between this murder and poly 
issues, so I don't understand why the poly community has any 
more concerns or need to speak out about this than any other 
subset of society.

3.  The victim is described as someone "who stood for his
principles and would not back down from what he thought was 
right".  Although I know nothing about the suspect(s) in 
this case, the same statement ("he stood for his principles 
and would not back down from what he thought was right") can 
be made about some previous killers/shooters of abortion 
facilitators.

4.  Sometimes it can be very difficult, morally, to know 
when to accept, for the good of the greater society, laws 
with which we personally disagree - and when to stand by our 
principles and disobey the laws of society.  That applies to 
both sides of many recent issues in the USA.

Rational dialog welcome; emotional rants will be ignored.

Best regards to all, Chuck Lee.

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CWLee
Former slayer of dragons; practice now limited to sacred
cows.  Believing we should hire for quality, not quotas, and
promote for performance, not preferences.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christine Heinsohn" <kb4wyr@fhrd.net>
To: <KanPoly@yahoogroups.com>; <OKPoly@yahoogroups.com>; 
<uupoly-l@uupa.org>; <mwpoly@yahoogroups.com>; 
<harp@yahoogroups.com>; <wnypoly@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 7:51 PM
Subject: [UUPoly-L] Dr. George Tiller's Murder


>I think it's appropriate for the poly community to think 
>about and talk
> about this murder.  Dr. Tiller was a good physician who 
> stood for his
> principles and would not back down from what  he thought 
> was right even
> after being shot in the early 90's and being harassed by 
> Kansas's former
> Attorney General.  I hope I can stand as steadfastly on my 
> principles.  May
> I stand down the tyranny of hatred dressed in the 
> transparent tattered veils
> of religion wherever I find it.
>
>
>
> Christine Heinsohn

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