[uua_l@uua.org: [UUA-L] UUA President Condemns the Murder of Dr. George Tiller]
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Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 18:02:31 -0400
Thread-Topic: UUA President Condemns the Murder of Dr. George Tiller
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From: Unitarian Universalist Association <uu...@uua.org>
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Subject: [UUA-L] UUA President Condemns the Murder of Dr. George Tiller
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Unitarian Universalist Association President Rev. William G. Sinkford
issued the following statement regarding the murder of Dr. George
Tiller:
I am shocked and outraged by the brutal murder of Dr. George Tiller.
America has lost a decent and courageous man. My heart aches for Dr.
Tiller's grieving family and for the congregation of the Reformation
Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas, where the shooting took place. This
extreme act serves as a heartbreaking reminder that our churches have
become increasingly vulnerable to ideological violence in recent years.
Last summer a deeply disturbed gunman killed two people and injured
several more when he fired gunshots into a Sunday service at the
Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville. He, too,
claimed to be acting on political grievances, in his case a bitter
resentment of liberals and homosexuals.
That was not the first time members of our faith have been targeted by
violent extremists. In 1994 Dr. John Bayard Britton was killed outside
the Ladies' Center in Pensacola, Florida. His escort, retired Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel James Herman Barrett, was also killed, and his wife,
June Barrett, was injured in the shooting. The Barretts were Unitarian
Universalists, religious people whose service to women and doctors was
an expression of their deep faith in the right of individuals to make
difficult moral decisions, often under agonizing circumstances.
I am profoundly grateful for dedicated people of conscience like Dr.
Tiller, and I pray that one day all of them may live and work in safety.
Sinkford's complete statement can be found on the web at
http://www.uua.org/news/newssubmissions/142860.shtml .
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