@SilentPandemic@MattWalshBlog I am so saddened that I see so many of my people (conservative, pro-life, Christian) so rabid about their hatred for this woman. I have watched this whole trial. She was sick. She lost her mind. And I have no doubt that she already lives in hell every day.
@LeddZeppyx2s@sweetcarolinatv@GuntherEagleman She is not innocent in the eyes of the law. But she is sick. I am as conservative as they come but I do have compassion for her. Her children are safe with our Father now. This case is tragic all around. She needs to live out her days in a mental institution.
Prominent Roman Catholic influencers and some leading figures in the anti-abortion movement are behaving disgracefully over the Lindsay Clancy trial. They are mocking compassion for a severely mentally ill woman, dismissing illnesses they do not understand, and turning a family’s destruction into content. It is shameful.
I am a priest, not a lawyer. I am not deciding Massachusetts law or the verdict. I am speaking about the moral reality before us.
Cora, Dawson, and Callan are dead. Their mother killed them. Lindsay then tried to kill herself and is now paralyzed. Mental illness does not make the children’s deaths less real, and compassion must not turn Lindsay into a celebrity. This is a tragedy from every direction.
But more than one thing can be true. Lindsay was trying to get help. She went from provider to provider, reporting severe anxiety, depression, insomnia, intrusive thoughts, and thoughts of suicide. She contacted crisis services and entered a psychiatric hospital. Nineteen days after her discharge, her children were dead.
Prosecution witnesses described her as a loving and devoted mother. That does not erase what she did, but it destroys the caricature of a cold mother who simply wanted her children gone.
The testimony has exposed fragmented care. Providers did not always know what others knew, and records were not always available or requested. I am not saying every provider was uncaring or incompetent. But when a woman moves through this many offices, medications, and levels of psychiatric care, someone must see the whole picture. Taken together, the warning signs were everywhere.
Postpartum psychosis, postpartum depression, and bipolar disorder are real. Lindsay’s precise illness and mental condition when she killed her children are contested in court. The existence of these illnesses is not. A religious following does not make someone a psychiatrist.
Suffering people do not tell everyone the same things. Lindsay may have told her mother one part, her husband another, a clinician something else, and a chaplain what she could not say elsewhere. Anyone who has cared for suffering people should understand that.
We do not have to choose between grieving Cora, Dawson, and Callan and recognizing that their mother was severely ill. A movement claiming to defend vulnerable life should recognize that a mentally ill woman is also vulnerable. Compassion for Lindsay takes nothing from her children. Cruelty does nothing to honor them.
People on the margins have been central to my priestly service since 2008. Women in psychiatric crisis are among them.
I will not turn Lindsay into a hero or pretend three children were not killed by their mother. But neither will I join a public stoning led by influencers who mistake cruelty for moral clarity.
Three children should still be alive. We must ask what must change so another family does not reach the same horrifying end.
James Talarico says Karmelo Anthony was convicted because "there were no black members of the jury" and the "system is not working for black Texans."
Karmelo Anthony stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalf to death for absolutely no reason.
And @jamestalarico sides with the killer.
@CollinRugg By all accounts, Clancy was a devoted mother who tried to get help for postpartum depression, anxiety, insomnia etc. Doctors threw 37 different drugs at her. She had a psychotic break, killed her kids and tried to kill herself. She belongs in a mental institution, not prison.
🚨DEAR GOD!!!
A migrant from Ghana HUNTED women on the streets of Oklahoma City.
He attacked one. They let him go.
He attacked another. They let him go AGAIN.
Then he tried to R*PE a third woman in BROAD DAYLIGHT, and FIREFIGHTERS tackled him off of her.
He's been arrested 20+ TIMES...
On August 1st, police say he pushed a woman up against a bus stop window and shoved his hands down her pants.
That same day, another woman says he crept up BEHIND her on the sidewalk, yanked her pants down, and ran when she fought him off.
Se*ual battery. Indecent exposure. Arrested.
...and released.
On August 6th, near Scissortail Park, police say he walked up behind ANOTHER woman and grabbed her body over and over, then started digging in his pants. Arrested again.
...and released, again.
On August 12th on a walking trail, police say he came up BEHIND a woman jogging, pulled her to the ground, and tried to R*PE her right there in the open, in broad daylight.
He almost did it. You know who stopped him? Not a judge. Not a bond. FIREFIGHTERS. They were there, they saw it, they pulled him off her and called police.
If those firefighters had been anywhere else that day... that woman gets r*ped on a public trail in the middle of the afternoon.
Every single time, he attacked from behind. Every single time, he hunted a woman alone...and TWO separate times, our justice system caught him... and let him walk right back out to do it again.
He has 20+ arrests since 2022...
WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS.
La crueldad del régimen islámico no se puede explicar con palabras.
Sara Ebrahimi, una madre, fue golpeada, le rompieron la nariz, la atacaron con un machete y finalmente le dispararon en la cabeza, sólo por exigir libertad.
Los medios de izquierda jamás te contarán esto.
I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that Hamas filmed themselves murdering, looting, and kidnapping women, children, men and elderly people over the age of 80 from their homes, while openly celebrating the violence online, and yet so much of the world was somehow shocked when Israel fought back.
Hillary Clinton is now comparing Trump to Saddam Hussein: “When I was in Baghdad... I had meetings in some of his palaces and they were quite reminiscent of what we're seeing in our own White House.”
So bitter.
She will never get over 2016.