From Cornerstone 1987

So what do you think's gonna happen tonight?  Is everything gonna blow up, or what's gonna go on?  I don't know.  An earthquake, maybe, tonight?  I don't know.  I'm just waiting for something.

When I was a kid, my parents taught me a Bible verse at a young age.  And the Bible verse went, "Vengeance is mine, and I will repay, sayeth the Lord."  Yeah, well, it was a good verse to know.  In fact, I remember using it on a number of occasions when it looked like I was gonna get beat up.  But it seems like recently there's people in some Christian circles who are going around and deciding that God didn't mean it when He said "vengeange is mine", and they're doing things that would seem to indicate they believe the end justifies the means.  Now, like a lot of you guys, I've been involved in the pro-life movement for a number of years, and recently we've been making some gains.  You know, we've been seeing things going more towards the pro-life side of things.  And then, what?, about a year ago, a little over a year ago, a couple of bozos decided they would go around and take the law into their own hands, and start blowing up abortion clinics.

Now, this next song is a little bit of a departure for me.  It's a little bit sarcastic.

(audience laughs)

You see, I don't want to believe that these people who are doing this are really following God, and that they really care whether or not human life is sacred.  I think they are more like the main character in this next song.  The main character in this next song is a guy in his mid-thirties, kind of a macho guy.  And he drives a little ice cream truck around the neighborhood.  He drives by an abortion clinic one day and he notices a couple of women are picketing this abortion clinic, and he starts thinking about this issue.  And he decides that he doesn't care whether abortion is right or wrong, but if they don't do something, the population of children is going to gradually decrease, and he might be out of a job.  So this next song is that man's story.  It's called "I Blew Up The Clinic Real Good".

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