Somewhere in New England, cloistered away, is the brave, lone holdout from the Lindsay Clancy case. Hated by the left, he is the one who caused a mistrial in the case because his conscience couldn’t approve of a woman getting away with the systematic strangling of her children.

He is in hiding because there may be serious threats to his life from what we could call “the shock troops of tolerance.”

How is it that those who claim to be “progressive” so often advocate the promotion of death and the abrogation of life?

What is this love affair with death that seems to characterize many on the left today?

We see it in abortion. We see it in the push for euthanasia. The push for mercy killing of the aged and infirm begins voluntarily, but soon slides into involuntary acts.

For example, The Gateway Pundit reports on a story of Canada, where euthanasia has become all too common: “Family Recounts Chilling Meetings with Doctors, Nurses Before Beloved Grandmother Was Euthanized, Allegedly Against Her Will and Theirs.”

Patrick Clancy appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes and said of Callan, one of his three children strangled by his estranged wife Lindsay, “I really thought there was a chance that Callan would live…And remember just thinking, ‘Just gimme one. Just gimme one kid,’ and I........

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