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Related: About this forumWicked Words: Religious Right Leaders Blame Newtown Shooting On Church-State Separation
SOURCE:
Wall of Separation
by Simon Brown
Dec 17, 2012
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/wicked-words-religious-right-leaders-blame-newtown-shooting-on-church-state
Others are adding their voices to Huckabee's bile, it seems:
If you guessed William J. Murray, youre correct.
Murray, who heads the Religious Freedom Coalition in Washington, D.C., doesnt blame Adam Lanza for taking the lives of his own mother and 26 others, including 20 children. Instead, the Religious Right activist said its lack of school-sponsored prayer that led to the tragedy.
In the vast majority of Americas public schools, the authority of God has been replaced with the authority of the iron fist of government, he said. Morals? Without the authority of God, there are no morals, and none are taught in the public schools today. The ethics that are taught are situational, perhaps the same situational ethics that led to the logic that caused the tragic shootings in Newtown.
Also Gary DeMar. The usual cast of suspects. Anyone know if Ralph Reed or Pat Robertson have been smart/decent enough to keep their mouths shut on this one?
ON EDIT: Iron fist of government? Mr. Murray lives under a constitution and system of governance that afford him the opportunity to speak his mind without fear of governmental repercussion. He should count his blessings. IMHO, YMMV.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)This incident has absolutely nothing to do with church/state separation issues, and those who are using it to make their case are despicable, imo.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)I guess all the families of god don't have the time
cbayer
(146,218 posts)But that really has nothing to do with a god.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)A Tennessee pastor on Sunday told his congregation that the number of mass shooting were escalating because of schools were government mind-control centers that taught junk about evolution and how to be a homo.
Old Paths Baptist Church Pastor Sam Morris began speaking about last weeks school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut by warning that this sermon will not be pleasant.
We get all up in arms about 20 children being shot in a day care but we dont give one good-glory rip about the 4,000 that were removed violently from the wombs of their mothers [in abortion procedures] the same day, he explained. I believe they use children and Christmas and all that to pull on our heart strings about gun control. Thats what its all about.
Morris asserted that equal rights was a sham because its equal immorality and that authorities should take the body of the suspected shooter, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, and string him up in public and set his body on fire and leave it out there to let the birds pick his bones.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/17/tennessee-pastor-mass-shootings-because-schools-teach-evolution-and-how-to-be-a-homo/
Mariana
(14,863 posts)I don't imagine this was the only one.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)want to prescribe the religious messages used by home-schoolers?
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