At cross purposes with the message

There is continuing to be a lot of furor over the murder of the Kansas abortionist in his own church. Most mainstream and liberal media are bashing any and all pro-life people.

It is undoubtedly a case of people working at cross purposes when the educating people in the pro-life movement, including some people who consider themselves pro-choice, continually remind us that there is a victim in each abortion, a message which, although it needs to be aired also seems to incite people to extreme, sometimes violent, action.

I found an interesting post on the Christianity Today politics blog.

I found the first comment [June 3 by Brendan] enlightening.

People for the American Way - whose very name insidiously implies all who disagree with them are being "un-American" - has once again gone overboard, linking all strong pro-life rhetoric with a vicious murder by a deranged individual..

Curiously, in the same breath they say pro-lifers have "dehumanized their opponents." Pot, meet kettle.

Similar problems came up during the great national arguments over slavery. Remember John Brown.