Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Father of the First Columbine Victim

The Father of Rachel Scott, the first girl killed in the Columbine school shooting testified before Congress..

"I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy - it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies. Much of that blame lies here in this room. Much of that blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves."

You can read his whole speech here.

1 comment:

existentialist said...

This is deep and I do not know what to say about it except if prayer were brought back to the schools, how would Orthodox handle it? We live in a such religious plurastic society that I do not know how that would work out. I just foresee fighting...