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LiberalArkie

(16,594 posts)
Wed Jun 28, 2017, 11:07 AM Jun 2017

Amazing Grace: The Christian faith of the monument wrecker



Michael Reed,charged with destroying the new 10 Commandments monument at the Arkansas Capitol did the same thing in 2014 in Oklahoma and was eventually discharged from hospital custody there on the condition that he continue to receive treatment for mental illness.

That is about the sum of the story it seems to me.

But not for some. Take Todd Starnes, for instance, a right-wing Fox bloviator, whose column blamed the crime on a vile, godless thug. He quoted Sen. Jason Rapert, seemingly anxious to link the crime to the Muslims he abhors.

“The first thought that came to me – who else in the world destroys monuments – is it the same hatred that ISIS uses in the communities that they go into,” he said..



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Amazing Grace: The Christian faith of the monument wrecker (Original Post) LiberalArkie Jun 2017 OP
Church in Van Buren? Think that's the one my granddaughter's mother drags her to sinkingfeeling Jun 2017 #1
Van Buren is getting close to the hillbillys up in NW Arkansas. LiberalArkie Jun 2017 #2

LiberalArkie

(16,594 posts)
2. Van Buren is getting close to the hillbillys up in NW Arkansas.
Wed Jun 28, 2017, 03:47 PM
Jun 2017

Of course being born in El Dorado, we would have just thrown a stick of dynamite at the monument

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