WASHINGTON, June 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Catholic Exchange columnist and MSNBC talk show host Alan Keyes asked controversial anti-abortion webmaster Neal Horsely to stop his tactics, which Keyes said hurt the pro-life movement. Horsely, best known for his Nuremburg Files website which at one time listed the names of abortionists and crossed out those who were shot, was a guest on Keyes' “Making Sense” program last week. He defended his work arguing that those involved in abortion must be punished.
Keyes said to Horsely: “I want to tell you quite bluntly that I think that what you are doing is wrong, that it's harmful to the pro-life movement, that it represents the kind of tactic that will disgrace and discredit what we are trying to do . And I want to say quite bluntly on behalf of the pro-life movement itself, I wish you'd stop it.”
Horsely responded: “You're ignoring the fact that these people are going to kill God's children. And what I'm trying to do is to point out that fact. And you can say that it's wrong to point it out, but a woman who goes and kills her baby is involved in some degree of homicide and she's going to be punished. And we can pretend she's a victim, but the reality is she knows what she's doing. And God knows she knows what she's doing. And we've got to start acting like that's the truth or else we confuse people.”
Keyes countered saying: “I believe that God wants her to love that child, and he wants us to love her. He wants us to understand that the action we take – I believe deeply in the injunction speak the truth with love. And love means that you don't endanger somebody, that you don't approach them in a way that will actually possibly bring harm and grief upon them because, in your self-righteousness, you think you're the instrument of God's punishment. I want to be the instrument of God's truth. I think the question of conscience and punishment ought to be left in his hands.”
See the full exchange at MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.com/news.
(This update courtesy of LifeSite News.)
