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</div><div>in the run-up to the U.S. midterm elections, some politicians continue to ride the wave of what's known as "Christian nationalism" in ways that are increasingly vocal and direct.</div>GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right Donald Trump loyalist from Georgia, told an interviewer on July 23, 2022, that the Republican Party "need[s] to be the party of nationalism. And I'm a Christian, and I say it proudly, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/opinions/christian-nationalism-marjorie-taylor-greene-tyler/index.html" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">we should be Christian nationalists</a>."Similarly, Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Republican from Colorado, recently <a href="https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1109141110" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">said</a>, "The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church." Boebert called the separation of church and state "junk."Many Christian nationalists repeat conservative activist <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/29/texas-church-state-separation-opposition/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">David Barton's</a> argument that the Founding Fathers did not intend to keep religion out of government.As a scholar of racism and communication who has written about <a href="http://contemporaryrhetoric.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Perry8_1_2_5.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">white nationalism</a> during the Trump presidency, I find the amplification of Christian nationalism <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/944_OPSR_TEVUS_Comparing-Violent-Nonviolent-Far-Right-Hate-Groups_Dec2011-508.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">unsurprising</a>. Christian nationalism is prevalent among Trump supporters, as religion scholars <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I1K3emoAAAAJ&hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Andrew Whitehead</a> and <a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/soc/people/faculty/samuel-perry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Samuel L. Perry</a> argue in their book "<a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/taking-america-back-for-god-9780190057886?cc=us&lang=en&" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Taking Back America for God</a>."Perry and Whitehead <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=BDLNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA10" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">describe the Christian nationalist movement</a> as being "as ethnic and political as it is religious," noting that it relies on the assumption of white supremacy. Christian nationalism combines belief in a particular form of Christianity with nativist and populist political platforms. American Christian nationalism is a worldview based on the belief that America is superior to other countries, and that that superiority is divinely established. In this mindset, only Christians are true Americans.[real am]Parts of the movement fit into a broader right-wing extremist history of violence, which has <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.43" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">been on the rise</a> <a href="https://www.csis.org/analysis/escalating-terrorism-problem-united-states" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">over the past few decades</a> and was particularly on display <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/opinion/christian-nationalists-capitol-attack.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">during the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021</a>.The vast majority of Christian nationalists never engage in violence. Nonetheless, <a href="https://nationalcouncilofchurches.us/common-witness-ncc/the-dangers-of-christian-nationalism-in-the-united-states-a-policy-statement-of-the-national-council-of-churches/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Christian nationalist thinking</a> suggests that unless Christians control the state, the state will suppress Christianity.From siege to militia buildupViolence perpetrated by Christian nationalists has manifested in two primary ways in recent decades. The first is through their <a href="http://www.religion-online.org/article/militias-christian-identity-and-the-radical-right/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">involvement in militia groups</a>; the second is seen in <a href="http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43406-3_3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">attacks on abortion providers</a>.The catalyst for the growth of militia activity among contemporary Christian nationalists stems from <a href="https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510356/no-compromise" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">two events</a>: the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff and the 1993 siege at Waco.At Ruby Ridge, former Army Green Beret Randy Weaver engaged federal law enforcement in an 11-day standoff at his rural Idaho cabin over charges relating to the sale of sawed-off shotguns to an ATF informant investigating <a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/08/18/544523302/how-what-happened-25-years-ago-at-ruby-ridge-still-matters-today" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Aryan Nation</a> white supremacist militia meetings.Weaver ascribed to the <a href="https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/106598/Contribution_514_final.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Christian Identity movement</a>, which emphasizes adherence to <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2645906" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Old Testament laws</a> and white supremacy. Christian Identity members believe in the application of the <a href="https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/fall-2012-politics-issue/his-truth-marching" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">death penalty</a> for adultery and LBGTQ relationships in accordance with their reading of some biblical passages.During the standoff, Weaver's wife and teenage son were shot and killed before he surrendered to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/26/ruby-ridge-1992-modern-american-militia-charlottesville" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">federal authorities</a>.In the Waco siege a year later, cult leader David Koresh and his followers entered a standoff with federal law enforcement at the group's Texas compound, once again concerning <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/4/19/17246732/waco-tragedy-explained-david-koresh-mount-carmel-branch-davidian-cult-25-year-anniversary" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">weapons charges</a>. After a 51-day standoff, federal law enforcement laid siege to the compound. A fire took hold at the compound in disputed circumstances, leading to the deaths of 76 people, including Koresh.The two events spurred a nationwide <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/26/ruby-ridge-1992-modern-american-militia-charlottesville" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">militia buildup</a>. As sociologist Erin Kania <a href="https://docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=rr" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">argues</a>: "Ruby Ridge and Waco confrontations drove some citizens to strengthen their belief that the government was overstepping the parameters of its authority. … Because this view is one of the founding ideologies of the American Militia Movement, it makes sense that interest and membership in the movement would sharply increase following these standoffs between government and nonconformists."Distrust of the government blended with strains of <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-04-24-9504240157-story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Christian fundamentalism</a> have brought together two groups with formerly disparate goals.Christian nationalism and violenceChristian fundamentalists and white supremacist militia groups both figured themselves as targeted by the government in the aftermath of the standoffs at Ruby Ridge and Waco. As <a href="https://www.hofstra.edu/faculty/fac_profiles.cfm?id=177" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">scholar of religion Ann Burlein</a> <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/lift-high-the-cross" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">argues</a>, "Both the Christian right and right-wing white supremacist groups aspire to overcome a culture they perceive as hostile to the white middle class, families, and heterosexuality."Significantly, in 1995, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and accomplice Terry Nichols <a href="http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcveigh/mcveighaccount.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">cited revenge</a> for the Waco siege as a motive for the bombing of the Alfred Murrah federal building. The terrorist act killed 168 people and injured hundreds more.Since 1993, at least 11 people have been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/29/us/30abortion-clinic-violence.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">murdered in attacks on abortion clinics</a> in cities across the U.S., and there have been numerous other plots.They have involved people like <a href="https://womrel.sitehost.iu.edu/REL%20133/Juergensmeyer_Terror/Soldiers%20for%20Christ.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">the Rev. Michael Bray</a>, who attacked multiple abortion clinics. Bray was the spokesman for Paul Hill, a Christian Identity adherent who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/04/us/florida-executes-killer-of-an-abortion-provider.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">murdered</a> physician John Britton and his bodyguard James Barrett in 1994 outside of a Florida abortion clinic.In yet another case, Eric Rudolph bombed the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. In his confession, he cited his opposition to abortion and anti-LGBTQ views as <a href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4600480" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">motivation to bomb</a> Olympic Square.These men cited their involvement with the <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2018/holy-hate-far-right%E2%80%99s-radicalization-religion" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Christian Identity</a> movement in their trials as motivation for engaging in violence.Mainstreaming Christian nationalist ideasThe presence of Christian nationalist ideas in recent political campaigns is concerning, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-021-09758-y" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">given its ties to violence and white supremacy</a>.Trump and his advisers helped to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/18/opinion/christian-nationalism-great-replacement.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">mainstream</a> such rhetoric with events like his <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/6/11/22527796/ig-report-trump-bible-lafayette-square-protest" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">photo op with a Bible</a> in Lafayette Square in Washington following the violent dispersal of protesters, and making a show of pastors <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-secretly-mocks-his-christian-supporters/616522/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">laying hands on him</a>. But that legacy continues beyond his administration.Candidates like <a href="https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-pennsylvania-religion-nationalism-8bf7a6115725f508a37ef944333bc145" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Doug Mastriano</a>, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania who attended the Jan. 6 Trump rally, are now using <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/on-religion/a-pennsylvania-lawmaker-and-the-resurgence-of-christian-nationalism" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">the same messages</a>.In some states, such as Texas and Montana, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/politics/texas-far-right-politics-invs/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">hefty funding</a> for <a href="https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/power-issue-tim-dunn-pushing-republican-party-arms-god/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">far-right Christian candidates</a> has helped put Christian nationalist ideas in the mainstream.Blending politics and religion is not necessarily a recipe for Christian nationalism, nor is Christian nationalism a recipe for political violence. At times, however, Christian nationalist ideas can <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-021-09758-y" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">serve as a prelude</a>.<div>=</div></div><div>=
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</div><div><div class="item-summary" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 30px 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(204, 204, 204); clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bill O'Reilly claimed of his previous references to George Tiller as "the baby killer": "I reported what groups were calling him. I reported accurately." In fact, O'Reilly himself has repeatedly referred to Tiller as "the baby killer."</div><div class="item-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;">On the June 2 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly read an email from a viewer who asked, regarding Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, who was <a href="http://www.kansas.com/946/story/834444.html" title="http://www.kansas.com/946/story/834444.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">shot to death</a> on May 31, "Mr. O'Reilly, how can you be sure that reciting 'Tiller the baby killer' over and over again did not inflame the assassin?" O'Reilly responded, "The doctor was involved in a criminal case. I reported what groups were calling him. I reported accurately." Similarly, on the June 1 edition of his program, O'Reilly stated that Tiller was "nicknamed 'The Baby Killer' by pro-life groups." In fact, O'Reilly has not only "reported" on the term's usage by "pro-life groups," but also repeatedly referred to him as "the baby killer":<ul type="disc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;">On the May 15 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly stated that Kathleen Sebelius, who was then the governor of Kansas and is now secretary of health and human services, "is the most pro-abortion governor in the United States. Based upon Dr. Tiller, the baby killer in her state, and all of that. All right? So there's no doubt."</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;">On the May 11 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly said Sebelius "is pro-abortion. She wants the babies done for. This is -- she supported Tiller the baby killer out there."</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;">On the April 27 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly said that Sebelius "recently vetoed a bill that placed restrictions on late-term abortions in Kansas. The bill was introduced because of the notorious Tiller the baby killer case, where Dr. George Tiller destroys fetuses for just about any reason right up until the birth date for $5,000."</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;">On the April 3 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly said, "Tiller got acquitted in Kansas, Tiller the baby killer."</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;">On the March 27 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly stated: "Now, we have bad news to report, that Tiller the baby killer out in Kansas -- acquitted. Acquitted today of murdering babies. I wasn't in the courtroom. I didn't sit on the jury. But there's got to be a special place in hell for this guy."</li></ul>From the June 2 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;">O'REILLY: Brett Wezlaff, Des Plaines, Illinois. "Mr. O'Reilly, how can you be sure that reciting 'Tiller the baby killer' over and over again did not inflame the assassin?" The doctor was involved in a criminal case. I reported what groups were calling him. I reported accurately.</blockquote>From the June 1 edition of The O'Reilly Factor:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;">O'REILLY: The 67-year-old Tiller had performed abortions for more than 35 years. The Washington Times estimates he destroyed about 60,000 fetuses, 60,000. According to the AP, Tiller performed more than 250 late-term abortions in 2003 alone. His income was estimated to be more than $1 million a year.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;">Right now, 36 states restrict late-term abortions, and there are only three clinics that perform them in the entire country. Medical consensus is that late-term abortions are rarely necessary because technology can now pinpoint major pregnancy problems much earlier than 21 weeks.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important;">Thus, very few American doctors will perform the operation. None of that seemed to matter to <a name="ORIGHIT_13" id="ORIGHIT_13" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /><a name="HIT_13" id="HIT_13" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Tiller, nicknamed "The </a><a name="ORIGHIT_14" id="ORIGHIT_14" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /><a name="HIT_14" id="HIT_14" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Baby Killer" by pro-life groups who stated, "He was helping women" </a><a name="ORIGHIT_15" id="ORIGHIT_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /><a name="HIT_15" id="HIT_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">-- Tiller stated that.</a></blockquote>From the May 15 edition of The O'Reilly Factor:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;">O'REILLY: Look, here's my deal, Mr. [Michael] Lucien [Notre Dame student]. Barack Obama throughout his political career has enabled abortion. There's no doubt that he has. All right? He recently appointed Governor Sebelius to health and human services. Governor Sebelius is the most pro-abortion governor in the United States. Based upon Dr. <a name="ORIGHIT_9" id="ORIGHIT_9" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /><a name="HIT_9" id="HIT_9" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Tiller, the baby killer in her state, and all of that. All right? So there's no doubt.</a></blockquote>From May 11 edition of The O'Reilly Factor:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;">O'REILLY: Do you have any idea as a woman why Barack Obama would be so -- and I'm using this word, and it could be a wrong word -- callous in the abortion realm? I mean, the guy puts Sebelius in as the health -- you can't get a more fanatically -- and that woman is pro-abortion. She wants the babies done for. This is -- she supported <a name="ORIGHIT_7" id="ORIGHIT_7" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /><a name="HIT_7" id="HIT_7" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Tiller the baby killer out there. So, enough with her. But do you think that he's that radical left, Jamie?</a></blockquote>From the April 27 edition of The O'Reilly Factor:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;">O'REILLY: "Check" three. Tomorrow, the Senate will debate whether Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius should be confirmed as the new secretary of health and human services."Check" would like to point out the governor recently vetoed a bill that placed restrictions on late-term abortions in Kansas. The bill was introduced because of the notorious <a name="ORIGHIT_6" id="ORIGHIT_6" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /><a name="HIT_6" id="HIT_6" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Tiller the baby killer case, where Dr. George </a><a name="ORIGHIT_8" id="ORIGHIT_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /><a name="HIT_8" id="HIT_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Tiller destroys fetuses for just about any reason right up until the birth date for $5,000.</a>There's no question Ms. Sebelius is one of the most pro-abortion politicians in America.</blockquote>From the April 3 edition of The O'Reilly Factor:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;">O'REILLY: Look, if I'm sitting there, and I'm going, OK, I got wiretaps that may not be smoking-gun wiretaps, but they're certainly incriminating wiretaps. And then I got a state witness turning his chief of staff, who, you know if they gave him, you know, a deal, they're not going to prosecute him because what are there, five others getting prosecuted? His brother and all his other --<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;">GERALDO RIVERA (Fox News host): His brother, Rob.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;">O'REILLY: So this guy has turned. And he knows everything. So, come on, Geraldo. I mean --<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;">RIVERA: Not necessarily.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;">O'REILLY: This guy's --<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;">RIVERA: You just had an acquittal last week of the governor of Puerto Rico, who was one of nine defendants. The other eight turned, and the governor was still acquitted.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><a name="ORIGHIT_10" id="ORIGHIT_10" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /><a name="HIT_10" id="HIT_10" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">O'REILLY: So, well, you just --</a><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;">RIVERA: So, you know, it can happen.O'REILLY: <a name="ORIGHIT_11" id="ORIGHIT_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /><a name="HIT_11" id="HIT_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /><a name="HIT_11" id="HIT_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Tiller got acquitted in Kansas, </a><a name="ORIGHIT_12" id="ORIGHIT_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /><a name="HIT_12" id="HIT_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Tiller the baby killer. Churchill got acquitted, you know, Ward.</a><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><a name="HIT_12" id="HIT_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">RIVERA: In a manner of speaking.</a><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important;"><a name="HIT_12" id="HIT_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">O'REILLY: It is disturbing. But let's -- look. [Former Gov. Rod] Blagojevich [D-IL] is a guy who -- I don't know if they could try this in Illinois.</a></blockquote><a name="HIT_12" id="HIT_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">On the March 27 edition of The O'Reilly Factor:</a><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;"><a name="HIT_12" id="HIT_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"></a><a name="ORIGHIT_25" id="ORIGHIT_25" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /><a name="HIT_25" id="HIT_25" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">O'REILLY: Now, we have bad news to report, that </a><a name="ORIGHIT_26" id="ORIGHIT_26" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /><a name="HIT_26" id="HIT_26" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Tiller the baby killer out in Kansas -- acquitted. Acquitted today of murdering babies. I wasn't in the courtroom. I didn't sit on the jury. But there's got to be a special place in hell for this guy.</a><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><a name="HIT_26" id="HIT_26" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">GLENN BECK (Fox News host): You know, what amazes me is late-term abortions, I mean -- and especially partial-birth abortion -- there's never, ever been a case, ever --</a><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><a name="HIT_26" id="HIT_26" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">O'REILLY: No. There's no case.</a><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><a name="HIT_26" id="HIT_26" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">BECK: There's no case --</a><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><a name="HIT_26" id="HIT_26" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">O'REILLY: That's right.</a><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><a name="HIT_26" id="HIT_26" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">BECK: There's no case --</a><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><a name="HIT_26" id="HIT_26" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"></a><a name="ORIGHIT_28" id="ORIGHIT_28" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /><a name="HIT_28" id="HIT_28" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">O'REILLY: Not with the technology they have today.</a><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;">BECK: No.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important;">O'REILLY: We all know that.</blockquote></div><div>
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Roeder also was sentenced to an additional two years for aggravated assault for threatening two church ushers as he fled.Roeder was convicted in January 2010 of premeditated first-degree murder for the shooting death of George Tiller as he was serving as an usher in the foyer of the doctor’s church in Wichita on May 31, 2009.Tiller’s murder was among the most notorious acts of violence since the U.S. Supreme Court established a constitutional right to abortion nationwide in 1973. It alarmed the abortion rights community and came as numerous conservative states, including Kansas, passed restrictions making it harder for women to obtain abortions.The hearing Wednesday came just days before Roeder was set to go before a jury on Monday for what had been anticipated to be<a href="http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article103323962.html" target="_blank" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration: none;"> a two-week sentencing hearing</a>.Roeder’s original life sentence with no chance of parole for 50 years was among many vacated after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that juries, not judges, must decide whether to increase punishment.Roeder, who looked much thinner than at his initial sentencing in 2010, was subdued throughout the proceeding and chose not make a courtroom statement before the judge pronounced his sentence.That was in contrast to the previous sentencing hearing that Roeder used as a forum to espouse at length on his anti-abortion views in an effort to justify his killing the doctor to save unborn babies.Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said the decision not to seek the added time was reached by prosecutors after examining Roeder’s health, his expected life span and the likelihood of whether he would ever be released from prison alive. He did not elaborate on Roeder’s health issues. Tiller’s family also was consulted, he said.Bennett told reporters after the hearing that “rather than putting the community and the victim’s family and witnesses through another contested hearing” in order to extend a 58-year-old defendant’s parole eligibility from 25 to 50 years, the state decided to withdraw the request.Bennett cited Roeder’s declining health and the unlikelihood of him living long enough to ever get out of prison. He said the decision was made “in the best interest” of the community and Tiller’s family.Bennett also read a statement from Tiller’s family saying nothing will change the fact that Tiller was dead, and that the family continues to grieve his loss. The family cited the “very difficult and emotionally draining trial” in which Roeder was found guilty, and thanked people involved with ensuring it was a fair trial.Tiller’s family said they had decided to support the sentence of a minimum 25 years in prison without parole.“With this legal closure, the Dr. George Tiller family will continue to heal and thrive and live fully in our communities,” their statement said.The abortion rights group Trust Women, which opened a clinic in 2013 in the same facility where Tiller once practiced, said in a statement its staff is grateful the doctor’s family has some measure of closure and healing. Its founder, Julie Burkhart, said Roeder deserves the maximum sentence allowed by law.“Dr. Tiller’s assassination most certainly left a hole in the reproductive rights movement, but we remain committed to this critical work in his honor and memory,” Burkhart said.Defense attorney Mark Rudy said after the hearing that he thinks his client is relieved it is over, and no appeal is planned. The defense has already lost on every other appeal issue and this is the minimum sentence Roeder could hope to receive, he said.“We are glad we can put this to rest,” Rudy said.<div style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 1px; height: 1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; overflow: hidden;"> Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article116655173.html#storylink=cpy</div></div></div></div></div><div>===</div></div></div></div></div>