I Sure Hope Keith Olbermann Hears About This

Surely Virginia Rep. Bob Marshall is “the worst person in the world” for having said that disabled children are God’s punishment to women who have had prior abortions.

Speaking at an rally opposing the funding for Planned Parenthood Marshall remarked:  "The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children," said Marshall, a Republican who then added: "In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest."

Here’s the link: http://www.newsleader.com/article/20100222/NEWS01/2220318

Beyond the obvious anti-Christian sensibility of the remark, (all God’s children are indeed blessed or hasn’t this idea trickled down to Marshall and his ilk?) the idea that God is counting fetuses like a kid plucking the petals of daisies ought to be offensive to even the most perfervid adherents of the intelligent design crowd.

Marshall gets my vote for worst person in the world.

S.K.

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