For next time: continue discussion of religion, move to culture wars.
Wednesday class will end shortly before noon.
Parents who murder autistic children (Garcia 14-15): "[T]here is never justification for taking another person's life out of desperation or exhaustion."
A recent case. Disability Scoop reports on a reaction:
State Sen. Sally Harrell, who oversaw legislative hearings into the problems plaguing the disability community, spoke about Frix’s death on the Senate floor Jan. 13, one week after the murder-suicide took place. Police believe that Jerry Frix, 58, killed his daughter with autism and then himself at his home in Cumming, she said. Harrell said Frix’s wife had died a few years ago and he had quit his job to help care for Megan.
Although the Frix family received services at home to help care for Megan, Harrell believes the support was simply not enough.
“Extreme situations can cause people to do things they would not typically do, and as a state, we bear the responsibility for failing this family,” she told her fellow lawmakers.
A vigil.
Guns and the NRA
NRA and competition within the gun niche.
NRA's Problems
Religion
The connection between religion and political advocacy dates back to the start, with the fight against slavery- Slave revolts: Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner
- John Brown
- Stephen A. Douglas objected: "It is true that they describe themselves as ministers of the gospel, but they claim to speak in the name of the Almighty on a political question pending in the Congress of the United States. It is an attempt to establish in this country the doctrine that a body of men, organized and known among the people as clergymen, have a peculiar right to determine the will of God in relation to legislative action. It is an attempt to establish a theocracy to take charge of our politics and our legislation. It is an attempt to make the legislative power of this country subordinate to the Church."
The Civil War left US religion even more decentralized: some Protestant denominations (e.g., Baptists) broke into Northern and Southern wings.
Prohibition, Evangelicals, and the Scopes Case
