Last week, pro-life activist Ralph Lang was arrested and charged in both federal and a Wisconsin state court for plotting to kill doctors and other medical staff at a Planned Parenthood who perform abortions in Madison, Wisconsin. Lang was caught after the gun he was planning to use in the murder plot accidentally went off in the Motel 6 (where else, right?) in which he was residing.
Lang told investigators that he was planning to travel to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after he killed everyone he wanted to kill in the Madison Planned Parenthood to wreak havoc on similar clinics.
Certainly, pro-life groups are tripping over themselves to distance their groups from Lang, just as quickly as pro-choice groups are tripping over themselves to tie Lang to the pro-life movement. The reasons for both are obvious and understandable.
If Lang is the face of the pro-life movement, its a wrap--mainstream America becomes unsympathetic to the pro-life movement, pro-choice causes and organizations are able to use Lang as an example of how important and also dangerous their work is in fundraising appeals. So we all get why nobody wants Lang on their team.
During his interviews with investigators, Lang indicated that he was in Madison a week before he was arrested to kill medical staff at Planned Parenthood, but couldn't do it because he was not "100 percent in sync" with God.
Yes. That's right church folk. Lang said that he couldn't kill the medical staff at that time because he was not 100 percent in sync with God. This means a couple of things. First, it means that at some point, Lang was out of sync with God but "got back into sync" with God because he was in Madison to kill again. It also means that, for Lang, being in sync with God allows him to kill dozens of humans with God's blessings.
If one believes that God is pro-life (God is, but not in the politically charged sense of the term), then how does one justify plotting to kill humans? What does that person say to himself? What Bible scriptures does he meditate over, what prayers does he say to justify this kind of contradiction? I simply can't imagine.
Lang will make his way through the legal state and federal criminal justice systems and he will no doubt invoke God as a part of his defense, or an explanation of why he did this or should not be held accountable for his plot to kill medical staff.
Now, I'm no spokesperson for God, but I have to believe that God, like both the pro-life and pro-choice movements, is not all that excited to claim that Lang and God are on the same team.
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