Religious People Are the Best People

That uptick in gun sales? Was Dr. George Tiller killed by a new gun or older, purchased or stolen?

Wichita Eagle reports Dr. George Tiller, a doctor who performed abortions, among them late term abortions, in Kansas, was killed while approaching his church this morning, just after 10 AM.

Tiller was shot just after 10 a.m. at Reformation Lutheran Church at 7601 E. 13th, where he was a member of the congregation. Witnesses and a police source confirmed Tiller was the victim.

No information has been released about whether a suspect is in custody.

Religious people are the best people

The former chaplain of the Miami Dolphins is accused of molesting a teenage boy over a five-year period in the 1970s.

[Rev. Donald] Walk worked as a priest at St. James Catholic Church during the same years as the Rev. Anthony Mercieca, who is now implicated in the sexual abuse of former Rep. Mark Foley when Foley was a teenage altar boy.

Religious people are the best people

"I don't want to stop loving. I don't want to stop sharing."

So says former Monsignor Dale Fushek, who's defying the Diocese of Phoenix by continuing to conduct worship, for worshipful crowds, while up on "sex charges stemming from his relationship with five teenage boys between 1984 and 1993 at St. Timothy's. Fushek is accused of engaging in explicit conversations about sex with the boys, inviting one into his bed and his hot tub, 'kissing and snuggling' the boys and exposing himself to a boy."

The Church previously settled, for $100,000, "a civil suit [that] accused him of watching and performing a sex act on himself while another priest had sex with a boy."

Religious People Are the Best People

Three more stories that prove what you already know: that Religious People Are the Best People.

Coral Eugene Watts, one of America's most prolific serial killers, died on Friday of natural causes. He made a habit of murdering women on Sunday morning before church.

...according to Watts biographer Corey Mitchell, Watts killed women because he thought they were evil. It's a word he used very often. He was deeply religious and a regular churchgoer all his life. He was concerned about being haunted by the spirits of his victims, so he took strange steps to keep the "spirits" at bay, i.e. in one case, after murdering a woman in her apartment, Watts disrobed and bathed her in what the author dubbed an "evil baptism" to keep her spirit at peace and at bay. In other cases, he took the women's shoes or purses and then burned them, for the same reason, he said, to keep their spirits away.

Communion, Las Vegas-style: