Word: christian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Larry Ashbrook strolled into Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, and opened fire with a semiautomatic pistol. He emptied three clips into the hallowed air. Three adults and four teenagers were killed, eight others wounded. After Ashbrook was done shooting young Baptists, who had gathered to hear a Christian-rock concert, he finished his cigarette and turned the gun on himself...
...York Post columnist complained shrilly that Christians, in death, get short shrift. "To so many media figures, Christians ? specifically evangelicals, orthodox Catholics and others who believe in traditional Judeo-Christian moral teaching ?- are not victims, but victimizers," wrote the columnist, Rod Dreher. "If Larry Gene Ashbrook, guns blazing, had walked into a synagogue, gay bar, an abortion clinic or even a black church service, there is no doubt what the government, cultural and media elite?s reaction would be." Dreher is right about one thing: Ashbrook?s massacre is a hate crime, and might even have been stamped as such...
Leading the lineup of male sailors is co-captain Christian Taubman. The final returning All-American, he earned third place in last year's national championships...
Last weekend the Crimson (2-1) romped to two easy victories over Texas Christian and Alabama-Birmingham at the UMass Classic...
...turfed out of power, but also humiliated by finishing third behind the communists. With the eastern state of Saxony due to vote Sunday, the party is bracing for more bad news, and resistance to Schroeder?s leadership is mounting. "Schroeder?s reforms are drastic, even compared with the conservative Christian Democratic government that preceded him," says TIME Bonn correspondent Ursula Sautter. "The Christian Democrats could never have tried to do what the Social Democrats are attempting now ?- they?re hardly criticizing his welfare plan because they know it needs to be done, and they tried to do it themselves, although...