It was quite the spectacle. Hundreds of women marched outside a courtroom, praising a mother on trial for killing her three children—Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months. Thousands took to social media, parading the mother, Lindsay Clancy, as a new face for “women’s rights,” and millions of dollars have been given to support her.
Clancy’s defense doesn’t argue that she took the lives of her children; rather, they insist that she should not be found guilty because her struggles with “postpartum” rendered her legally insane.
The trial remains ongoing. The cocktail of 13 psychiatric medications that was prescribed to Clancy could have played a legitimate role, and if proven true, would highlight the dangers of a pharmaceutical industry that is all too willing to hand out drugs that alter people’s mental state. Others note that the killings were too methodical to have taken place in a state of delusion.
It was quite the spectacle. Hundreds of women marched outside a courtroom, praising a mother on trial for killing her three children—Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months. Thousands took to social media, parading the mother, Lindsay Clancy, as a new face for “women’s rights,” and millions of dollars have been given to support her.
This story is about more than a murder trial—it is a spotlight on the inverted morality that has taken hold of a large segment of the culture, and it is far from the first.
For decades, “women’s marches” have justified the murder of children in the womb. The victims of abortion are treated as irrelevant “clumps of cells” while the mothers barrel through the streets celebrating their “right” to kill.
After Luigi Mangione assassinated UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in broad daylight, scores of people justified the murder, plastering the killer’s face on t-shirts and posterboards as a hero for the mistreated working-class.
This same group was quick to justify the murder of Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk, who they insisted deserved to die for his conservative Christian views.
For nearly three years, mass demonstrations have justified the murder of 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, celebrating the terrorists as “freedom fighters.” These protests have also routinely included the enthusiastic justification of Adolf Hitler’s murder of six million Jews, only expressing disappointment that he was unable to “finish the job.”
Rationalizing the taking of human life is no longer fringe. You would be hard-pressed to find an American who doesn’t know someone who justifies one (or all) of these murders—it is quite likely that you know many! Whether it’s abortion, euthanasia, political assassination, or antisemitic killing, the justifiers of murder (astonishingly) are adamant that their position is morally upright.
Killers are increasingly embraced, while victims are increasingly ignored or demonized. Although disturbing, the question of “why” has a Biblical answer.
When God is removed as the authority for defining good and evil in a society, Satan fills the void, using lies and manipulation to invert morality. Soon everything that God loves is scorned, and everything that Satan loves is praised—and what does Satan love more than the destruction of innocent human life?
Consider John 8:44, where Jesus tells the Pharisees plotting (and seeking to justify) His murder, “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.”
The Pharisees and Sadducees also presented themselves as the standard of moral uprightness, but Jesus cut through the facade, revealing the source of their deluded and wicked intent. The promised Messiah’s arrival was going to get in the way of their sinful desires and power.
Those who support the killing of the unborn want a sexual free-for-all without “consequence.” Those who supported the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing wanted to blame the wealthy for their economic misfortune. Those who supported the killing of Charlie Kirk hated the exposing light of common sense and Biblical truth. Those who supported the killing of Jews are driven by irrational antisemitism.
The motives of those who applaud a mother on trial for a “postpartum” driven murder may be best revealed through the “me too, Lindsey” caption spreading across social media—and it is less surprising in a selfish world, where children are viewed as a burden, and the “loss of natural affection” reigns.
At the heart of it all is the father of lies and murder—and the sins that cause individuals to repel from God’s perfect standards of love and morality.
