A complement to Gary Laderman’s column on the gun-as-sacred-object: scholar Lou Ruprecht’s scriptural encounter with the Second Amendment and the NRA in a gun debate gone astray.
Christian Security Network; The Rev. Lowery & The Rev. Moon Cross Paths; Economic Crisis May Downsize Death Penalty; Christian Author’s $10,000 Challenge; and Conservatives in Hollywood donate to McCain/Palin.
When Bruce Pardo, dressed as Santa Claus, murdered friends and family on Christmas eve he was acting out a tragic bit of ceremonial violence, and borrowing an ironic and horrifying role from film and comics.
In the spirit of the Black Panthers or the Jewish Defense League, The Pink Pistols advocate guns for gays, shouting “Armed gays don’t get bashed” and “Pick on someone your own caliber.”
Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action circulates a “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America,” depicting a doomsday scenario of Bible banning, a disbanded Boy Scouts, taxpayer-funded abortion, gay marriage from coast to coast, talk radio outlawed, God expunged from the public sphere, and, gulp, no guns.
