Reply #130: OK. You meant "puritan" in a strictly non-religious sense,

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since the word has no religious connotations. Sure. Whatever.

Fact is, we do not know enough about the case to know what motivated this woman. It could have been some kind of religious fanaticism turned violent, of course. It could also have been drug-related. She might be plain old crazy, which seems likely to me. There might be a history of conflict between this woman and her daughter that escalated into this. And so on. There's simply no way for us to know anything but the bare facts of the case right now.

But that's not enough to stop some DUers from seeing the word "Alabama" and launching into all their favorite bigotries. That's really what has happened in this thread, and we all know it.