There is a certain kind of crazy logic that we often use ...that does not require much thinking, nor much benefit to anyone.

A person will not park their car under a walnut tree that drops its fruit every 30 seconds ...they would be considered a nut if they did.

But, if they park under a tree with a squirrel's nest in it, they cuss the squirrel if it drops one nut.

And it is much crazier to think we should cuss the baby, favoring abortion ...than take responsibility ourselves.  We sacrifice what God would have us do ...when we should reconcile, take responsibility, and rethink, so next time we follow what He would have us do.

In those old classic TV shows, like Leave It To Beaver, if someone wanted a pet dog or something, they were told that they had to take full responsibility ...saving up to afford it, then also affording the responsibility of taking care of all that is necessary with raising a dog.

God views every life as important ...though every life does turn out to be workable.  The Shotgun wedding was an attempt to make it workable.  There was no killing intended ...no killing of the unborn child, no killing of the father of the child and the babies chance of having one, and no killing of the woman's hopes and dreams.  If she had given herself to the man in a way that she became pregnant ...she had likely given herself to hopes and aspirations.  And the shotgun was more of insisting upon responsibility ...and sort of saying, "If you were close enough at that moment of conception, and you were in the moment because you desired it and felt it made you happy ...then you sure as well better continue to make her happy if you don't want to face this shotgun."

The runaway rates at which divorce and abortion are rising to ...are lowering our standards where there are nearly no standards.  If you neglect to see what is most important, you will neglect much more.  If you neglect to follow not the Levitical law, but the current law ...then there is likely no law you will respect ---not the life of the impregnated girl, the unborn child, or your own life floating upon the breeze of whatever wind comes your way ....and tragically, it may be your own life in jeopardy. 

So, though I do not always like the imagery, the shotgun wedding had many right motives, when the intention was really to never fire a shot.  It definitely seems better to me than what others do, which Jesus disapproved of ...casting the first stone.

The shotgun wedding was attempting to do something to make things right ...or as right as they could be.  That's what reconciling is about. It's not about protesting, and actual shooting.  Crime is not supposed to be tolerated, nor allowed to continue ...let alone be encouraged.  People protest that they want rights ...and they go about it performing wrongs.  

Lawlessness is not the avenue of freedom.  It may appear for a time to be effective in making certain points, but it is certain to eventually lead to less freedom.  Someone or some entity always eventually rises to the dreaded occasion ...and the result is a dictatorship, with less freedom.

Can we not see how the peaceful protests of Tiananmen Square turned out??  Thousands of youth died as tanks rolled in to make it clear that there would be no uprising to attempt to influence the current dictatorship.