In reply to Paul K..

Every point you made here us true, however, as we address ourselves to others out of a spirit of love and pastoral civility, we cannot shrink from the responsibility to be truthful in even a somewhat perceived offensive manner. Righteous anger, for example, in defense of the unborn whom many in our land deem inconvenient and worthy of death is perhaps not gentle speech, yet it is born of necessity. Were the prophets of old gentle and passive, fearful of offending their countrymen, or did they speak the truth in love, and resign themselves to the disdain and ridicule which followed them?