I’m Embarrassed to be a Christian (Jerry)

Being both a rational person and a religious one often leads me to more embarrassment than fulfillment. Why? Because of stupid shit like this. Stupid for the perpetrators of this crime and stupid for the court system that lets them go. The fact that the idiots involved don’t seem to be a part of any of the "mainstream" religions doesn’t allow us to simply write them of as crackpots. To the contrary, the fact that they are crackpots makes the mainstream religions partially culpable. It is the efforts of the mainstream religions that have created a court system that allows this insanity to go unpunished. There is a line between having a system that supports religious freedom and having a system that allows religious crackpots to get away with murder. We have crossed over that line and something needs to be done. The First Amendment was never intended to protect murders of any kind, especially child murders.

Via The Raving Atheist via American Samizdat.