And you tell me that God is pro-life and pro-family?

This appears to be an older story (from February 2010), but it's been all over Facebook and on some blogs lately.

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In Virginia, Republican (of course) State Delegate Bob Marshall stated at a press conference that women who have abortions are subsequently punished by god with disabled children.

"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.

“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.”

Combine this with Fred Phleps (of the Westboro Baptist cult) who stated that the Sandusky/Penn State scandal is to "remind this nation that God Hates america and sends raping coaches as a curse for this nation's rebellion" because, apparently, they are "like all of the universities in doomed USA: full of proud, fornicating, brutish sinners, bowing down to college sports."

In both cases, God is punishing an offender by harming children either through sexual assault or by maiming.When a human maims a child, that offender is punished through the courts. Yett when God does it, its held as moral and righteous. The religious approve of this child abuse!

Think about what it says about the kind of god that these people think they worship? A god who punishes indirectly by punishing children directly? That is a monster and an abomination of a god. Only an evil demon would do that.

Yet they worship this god and hold that without a god like this humanity would fall into evil.

And you tell me that God is pro-life and pro-family?

Sure. Sure. Sure.