When He Walks Contrary to Us
Sex and Culture
Written by Douglas Wilson
Saturday, 11 May 2013 11:51
Schizophrenia is no less schizophrenia if one of the voices happens
to be talking sense. Hard schizophrenia is no less difficult if
murderous insanity is linked up tight with weird, pathetic, and
arbitrary scruples. In fact, if such an arbitary pattern is applied long
enough, one may detect a method in the madness.
I am talking about our erratic public policy when it comes to
protecting human life. Gosnell is a disgrace because he killed babies in
this spot instead of the officially-approved that
spot. As one observer noted, he is apparently being charged with murder
because he enjoyed himself and because his place was dirty. If he had
only kept his slaughter hygienic and had been snipping spinal columns
for the sake of the Constitution, instead of doing it for his own
jollies, and had done his work before that magic and metaphysical week
after which responsible medical professionals cease dismembering their clients' babies, he could have served as a witness for his own prosecution.
In the meantime, the kidnapper of three women in Cleveland is facing
murder charges for brutally causing a miscarriage, and for doing so
without a medical degree.
Ah, someone will reply, that was because what
he was doing was violent and coercive -- the mother of the child had
been kidnapped, raped, and was subjected to this treatment against her
will. Right . . . as though the unborn child ever volunteers for an
abortion? It was unacceptable coercion because he was forcing two people
to submit to his twisted desires instead of limiting himself to just
one person?
His brutality is to be sharply distinguished from our constitutional
and noble practice of applying the same kind of lethal coercion to the
kind of people who never have any hope of escaping next door. Our
constitutional and hygienic methods insist that we limit ourselves to
those who cannot speak, who cannot get away, and who have no advocate.
Actually, we delude ourselves in thinking they have no Advocate. They
do, and He will speak to us about them soon enough, when He walks
contrary to us in His fury (Lev. 26:28).
This erratic behavior on the part of our civil magistrate -- filing
murder charges for doing here what was just fine over there -- is not
simply insanity. When the law makes no sense, and is capriciously
applied in a lottery-like fashion, the underlying logic of the whole
system is totalitarian. The government becomes completely identified
with the law, and the people learn to live with it the way a battered
woman learns to live with an abusive boyfriend. Somedays he is in a good
mood, and you think you can get by.
After a while, the Stockholm syndrome develops. We have good reason
to believe that the American people have a bad case of it. After all, we
have been locked up in this awful house in Cleveland since 1913.
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