Gingi Edmonds, a religious nut and world-class asshole, recently wrote a horribly amoral and disgusting article on Christian Newswire that placed the blame for a recent Montana plane crash, which resulted in fourteen deaths (including seven children), on abortion (long story). Long story short, this has understandably garnered a large amount of attention (not aided by the fact it was front-page Pharyngula material), and so far Gingi Edmonds has been wholly flooded with outraged eMails, and so have Christian Newswire, questioning their ethics in allowing such a disgraceful, amoral article to appear on their site.
Now, Gary McCullough, the director of Christian Newswire, has responded to the complaints. It's just as you'd expect from the source that published the original article: sanctimonious, self-righteous, fundamentally stupid and profoundly amoral.
As director of this newswire, I do not believe I need to defend our choice of what we distribute from attacks by those who trumpet the phrase "pro-choice." I am not concerned about the intolerance expressed by those who scream for tolerance. Nor do I intend to defend Ms. Edmonds' freedom to express herself from those who cry "censorship" to justify the publication of anything vile, offensive or disgusting.
Hypocrisy is just too easy of a target.
What I do find of interest is the common misunderstanding of God's judgment and what Edmonds expressed. Imagine if you will, a father telling his toddler son not to touch a hot stove. Over and over the father warns that the stove will burn him if he touches it. Yet the toddler does, and cries out in pain. The infant mind might blame the father for the burn he just experienced -- thinking he was being punished. "Why did you burn me daddy?"
I do not know the extent of the pain we will experience for failing to heed our Heavenly Father's admonition not to murder. Child-on-child and child-on-adult murderers are becoming less rare. An overall lack of respect for human life is undoubtedly having an impact. The highest concentration of child-on-child murders occur within the segment of our society with the highest concentration of abortion clinics. And we cry out, "Why is this happening -- is God punishing us?"
This time I'm thoroughly immolated, not just by the fetid flames of hypocrisy and disgusting callousness, but also by the sheer bucketload of stupid the dingus just threw at us. He equates a child burning himself on a stove despite being warned not to do so, with a plane crash which still has no confirmed cause as of yet.
It's a telltale sign of religiots: using faulty analogies that don't make the slightest shred of sense. Everything from motives to causation, he gets it all wrong. A child burns itself because it's curious and isn't aware of the danger. How did this moron manage to equate that to a man who owns a bunch of clinics that allow abortions, who loses his kids in a plane crash? A plane doesn't crash by having anything to do with abortion; it's a ridiculously non-sequitor.
So, the only cause left in his view (and Gingi's as well), is divine retribution. God did it, to punish the man, by crashing the plane and killing two of his children and five of his grandchildren (along with seven others).
Anyway; don't bother reading the rest of his holier-than-thou response; it's nothing new or worth your time, saying we're paying back for killing the unborn, that abortion is 'child-murder for hire', and equally ridiculous and frankly disturbing statements that make one wonder if McCullough has all of his brain cells functioning normally. Even if he is categorically insane.
The day religiots and fundies stop equating abortion to child-murder is the day I eat my socks.
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