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Amazing Grace: The Christian faith of the monument wrecker [View all]
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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https://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/06/28/amazing-grace-the-christian-faith-of-the-monument-wrecker
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