And trust me when I say I searched
for printable words to use in my title.
His trashing of Charles Colson and the late great Richard John Neuhaus
is beyond despicable.
(I have chosen
not to link directly to his blog because I don’t want to give the jerk the
traffic.)
The Chuck Colson obituary that Schaeffer posted on his blog Sunday, though, is truly extraordinary, and I don’t see what purpose his fulmination-from-afar serves. The obit memorably begins, “Evangelical Christianity lost one of its most beloved and bigoted homophobic and misogynistic voices with the death of Charles W. ‘Chuck’ Colson, a Watergate felon who converted to ‘evangelicalism’ but never lost his taste for dirty political tricks against opponents.”
Schaeffer’s evidence for that charge: “Colson teamed up with far right
Roman Catholic activist Professor Robert George of Princeton to launch the
dirty tricks campaign to brand President Obama as ‘anti-religious’ with Colson’s
and George’s ‘Manhattan Declaration.’”. . .
After numerous paragraphs of Colson-bashing, Schaeffer turns his ire
on another departed leader, “the reactionary’s reactionary, Richard John
Neuhaus.” He argues that Colson and Neuhaus fronted for “oppressive ideas
rooted in an anti-constitutional theocratic far right wish list for changes
that were supposed to roll back the parts of the democratic processes—say Roe v. Wade, women’s rights and gay
rights—that far right Catholics and Protestants didn’t approve of.”
Oh yeah, that great monument to
the democratic process, Roe v. Wade,
that arbitrarily threw out the abortion laws of all 50 states. How democratic.
I don’t know if I should have
pity or contempt for someone so far off the deep end. Franky better pray it will be pity on God’s part . . . a lot
of it. Trashing good men who have
contended for the Faith, for freedom and for “the weakest of these,”
particularly the unborn and those in prison, is a hellish thing.
Franky
Schaeffer’s change on abortion indicates that God may have instead chosen
to give him over to a depraved mind.
Franky knows (or knew) how wrong the Roe v. Wade abortion regime
is. He helped produce the seminal
documentary featuring his father and C. Everett Koop, Whatever Happened to the Human Race. And later on, I personally saw him speak at a Texans United
for Life dinner. (He already
seemed a bit odd then, by the way.)
How far he has come . . . down.
I hope in heaven Francis
Schaeffer does not have to know what has become of his son.
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