If you did not get the chance to see the commentary last night on the CBS News “Free Speech” segment, you missed a good one. You can click here for the video and complete text of the short (1min) monolog by Brian Rohrbough, the father of a boy killed in the Columbine.
I am surprised that his words have made it onto national television – free speech to the liberal media is a thing to cover radical, left, wing nuts and not Christians. The following is the text of his brief message from the CBS news website:
I’m saddened and shaken by the shooting at an Amish school today, and last week’s school murders.
When my son Dan was murdered on the sidewalk at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, I hoped that would be the last school shooting. Since that day, I’ve tried to answer the question, “Why did this happen?”
This country is in a moral free-fall. For over two generations, the public school system has taught in a moral vacuum, expelling God from the school and from the government, replacing him with evolution, where the strong kill the weak, without moral consequences and life has no inherent value.
We teach there are no absolutes, no right or wrong. And I assure you the murder of innocent children is always wrong, including by abortion. Abortion has diminished the value of children.
Suicide has become an acceptable action and has further emboldened these criminals. And we are seeing an epidemic increase in murder-suicide attacks on our children.
Sadly, our schools are not safe. In fact, we now witness that within our schools. Our children have become a target of terrorists from within the United States.
First, thank you to Brian for speaking up on national television. I find no issue or flaw any thing he said. For the left who criticize him for politicizing school violence I caution against people in glass houses throwing stones.
Anyone in for a laugh, I urge you to read the comments on the CBS news page which contains this story. If it doesn’t speak to the near insanity of the average liberal mentality, I do not know what dose.
Also, a Hat Tip to Anchoress, she hit the nail on the head with a call for a sane dialog with regards to the place of religion in schools.
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