A Snapshot of a Fundamentalist's Heart

First, some background ... a colleague is getting Lasik eye surgery from a local physician. She is the kind of woman who can get anyone to open up to her, and as a devoted Christian often gets folks to discuss their faith. So she was having a consultation with a the local Lasik physician, who to this point she had called "the Robot" due to his clinics manufacturing-style operations and his typical doctor's demeanor (Patch Adams he ain't). But yesterday they began to talk about many things - the Christian physicians' organization, abortion, euthanasia, and the doctor's own experience with his mother's long road to eternal rest. He admitted that being a physician he kept her alive via medical procedures long after she wanted to live and she spent her final years in pain and suffering.

Anyway, they discussed abortion. He told a story about a meeting of a group of urologists he had attended years ago ... my colleague shares a last name with an apparently famous urologist. A speaker at this meeting was none other than W.A. Criswell, famous fundamentalist pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas.

W.A. said two shocking things:
1. He was for abortion in one case
2. That case was if a black man raped a white woman

I'll let you digest that for a bit before further commenting.