Oh gosh and heck as well.

All them pledged for life stalkers are waving big fat white flags, saying they never meant it.
But if they never meant it, they would never have gone looking for families and children.

They always meant it because they felt entitled, Godly, looking out over other peoples lives and passing Saint like judgement against those they didn't know, and went sicko as well - against the families and children of people who thought differently from them, might have been different coloured, or different nationality, poor even, or just the wrong type to challenge their omniscient persecution.