Wicked Words: Religious Right Leaders Blame Newtown Shooting On Church-State Separation

[Adsos Letter]

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:

What sort of person would use a tragedy like the massacre in Newtown, Conn., as an excuse to advance an extreme, theocratic agenda?

If you guessed William J. Murray, you’re correct.

Murray, who heads the Religious Freedom Coalition in Washington, D.C., doesn’t blame Adam Lanza for taking the lives of his own mother and 26 others, including 20 children. Instead, the Religious Right activist said it’s lack of school-sponsored prayer that led to the tragedy.

“In the vast majority of America’s 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]

1. I can find nothing on news searches from either Reed or Robertson.

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]

2. I thought that morals were suppose to be taught in the homes??

I guess all the families of god don't have the time

[cbayer]

4. Morals should be taught both at school and at home, imo.

But that really has nothing to do with a god.

[AlbertCat]

3. Some more religious wisdom to help us all get through this tragedy

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 week’s 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 don’t 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. That’s what it’s all about.”

Morris asserted that equal rights was a “sham” because it’s “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]

6. I wonder how many congregations heard similar sermons yesterday.

I don't imagine this was the only one.

[struggle4progress]

5. I thought Adam Lanza was home-schooled by a gun-wacko. So does William Murray

want to prescribe the religious messages used by home-schoolers?