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...Wednesday night at 7 p.m. (8:00 in Floyd?s time zone), a man named 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...
...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 by the pundits ?- if they all hadn?t been home watching the weather...
...speedier ticket to heaven will do the trick. On Friday, the Vatican released an updated manual on indulgences, with several additions to the acts of faith that lessen a Catholic?s time spent in purgatory ?- the heavenly holding pen outside the pearly gates. The pope announced the church will now give "partial" indulgences to parishioners who quit smoking, even for a day. (A full indulgence is achieved when the self-restraint is accompanied by confession and communion.) The money that would have been spent on the cigarettes should be donated to the needy, the manual intones. But besides enlarging charity...
Think anything was more of a violation of something sacred than shooting up a school full of kids? How about a church full of kids? Police in Fort Worth on Thursday were scratching their heads for a motive after a man, identified by police as 47-year-old Larry Gene Ashbrook of Fort Worth, dressed in black and spewing anti-Baptist rhetoric, burst into a church service for teenagers Wednesday evening and opened fire, killing seven and then himself. He was "cussing royally," said one survivor, but he was calm enough to both smoke a cigarette and empty three clips...
...some ways, the most interesting issues are those where [the]values that are core to our page come into conflict," he said, specifying civil liberties and the separation of church and state...