Spirituality, Theofascism, And Hypocritical Parents*

Are the bodies cold yet? How much longer do we let fringe elements & fringe religion run loose? First the sovereign citizen/Tea Partiers attack the police & courts (Mmmm, could go either way on that ...) then (via No More Mr. Nice Blog) we find that Tuesday's school murderer was a Mormon who was "highly regarded for his spirituality." And his gun fetishism, apparently. [NOT MUCH LATER: BUGGERED THE AUTO-PLAYING LOW-INFO VIDEO THAT WAS HERE. IT'S AT THE DAILY NEWS LINK, IF YOU MUST.]

Church elder Earl Milliron told the TV station that the 15-year-old was "highly regarded for his spirituality."

The teen, his brother and his father were all active in their Oregon [Mormon] church, Milliron said.

Milliron also said Padgett's parents' "tragic" divorce — which heavily affected the teen's dad — could have had an influence on the 15-year-old's mental health.

On Friday, the freshman's dad, Michael Padgett, released a statement to Oregon's FOX 12.

"We are finding it very difficult to put into words our state of mind and emotions," he wrote. "We are at a loss as to how and why this tragedy unfolded."

He continued: "Our family does not condone and has never promoted violence or hatred toward anyone. The values that we have taught our children are love in Jesus Christ, compassion, forgiveness, and patience."

On Tuesday, Padgett brought a rifle, a handgun and a knife — all of which had been locked up in his family's home — to school, police said.

He allegedly gunned down 14-year-old Emilio Hoffman in the school's locker room and shot and injured a teacher.

Police found Padgett's body in a school restroom with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officers said.

You scummy son-of-a-bitch, he used your fucking guns. And the desire to "kill sinners" must've come from your filthy gutter religion. Smoking cigarettes & saying "goddamn" are certainly worthy of the death penalty. Wouldn't Heavenly Father want them stoned to death though?

Fuck you all. If the parents of victim Emilio Hoffman don't kill the parents of the Mormon murderer Biblical revenge-style (More of Gawd's justice.) as they should, let's hope there's an att'y. willing to sue the enabling/accessory parents of this Latter Day Jihadi murderer's asses into bankruptcy.

Other poop in MailOnline's inimitable style:

• Mormon school shooter wanted to kill 'sinners' who 'smoked cigarettes and took the Lord's name in vain', diary reveals
  Jared Michael Padgett, 15, is the suspected gunman behind Tuesday shooting at Reynolds High School in Portland, Oregon
• On Friday, law enforcement officials revealed that they had found Padgett's journal which detailed a plan to kill 'sinners' at the school
• In the diary, Padgett complained about people who smoked cigarettes and took the Lord's name in vain
• The latest revelations come as his parents Michael and Kristina Padgett released a public apology
• Padgett was armed with an AR-15 rifle, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a handgun and a knife
• He arrived to campus on the school bus and carried his deadly arsenal in a guitar case
• Killed Emilio Hoffman, 14, in school gymnasium and wounded PE teacher, Todd Rispler
• Exchanged gun fire with responding police officers before taking his life while sitting on locker room toilet

When the hell do we start protecting ourselves from these people? (Votes are no protection from live rounds, we should probably remind some of you sissies.) After all, if Dick Cheney felt he was justified in destroying Iraq because of a one per cent chance that something bad might happen, who dares keep me from a pre-emptive strike on the Angel Moroni?

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*Speaks well to L.D.S. family valuesoppressive family & church structure, dunnit? How many illegitimate children do you think are buried under the Mormon Tabernacle?