My newspaper column on the Knoxville tragedy
On the UU church shootings from last weekend -- giving people unfamiliar with Unitarian Universalism a quick primer on who we are, about the climate that led us to this point (and why in my opinion this was sad, but not surprising), why it's a mistake to think our gentle nature means we're weak, and where the hope is in such a situation.
I was particularly proud of the last paragraph, which came to me after I thought I was finished and was getting ready to e-mail the piece to the op-ed guys:
And when he gets a fair trial instead of a lynch mob, possibly with a public defender provided for him at no cost, then serves his time under humane conditions, he can get back to us on all the ways liberals have made his life more difficult.
That could have been a column of its own, in fact. And it might be, down the road.
I was particularly proud of the last paragraph, which came to me after I thought I was finished and was getting ready to e-mail the piece to the op-ed guys:
And when he gets a fair trial instead of a lynch mob, possibly with a public defender provided for him at no cost, then serves his time under humane conditions, he can get back to us on all the ways liberals have made his life more difficult.
That could have been a column of its own, in fact. And it might be, down the road.