More details of the Family Research Council shooting from Life Site News.
Excerpt:
The suspect, a 28-year-old male from Virginia named Floyd Lee Corkins II, said, “Don’t shoot me, it was not about you, it was what this place stands for.” AP later confirmed that Corkins is a liberal activist who volunteers with a left-wing group in the D.C. area.
Now, Corkins has been charged with assault with intent to kill and with bringing a firearm across state lines. According to an FBI affidavit, Corkins allegedly said words to the effect of “I don’t like your politics” when he encountered Johnson.
“The FBI said Corkins had 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches, a Sig Sauer 9mm pistol, two additional magazines loaded with ammunition and an additional box of 50 rounds of ammunition when he came into the building,” according to a report on the FBI intel. “His parents told the FBI that Corkins “has strong opinions with respect to those he believes do not treat homosexuals in a fair manner.”
Corkins definitely comes from the left side of the political spectrum.
According to the Washington Post: “Allan P. Chan, 28, a former George Mason student, said he met Corkins at a campus gym about six years ago. They worked out together, lifting weights, and began to socialize and watch television together. Chan described Corkins as secretive and somewhat odd. Corkins’s Facebook page included no photos, not even his own, and he displayed an intense interest in the 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.”
Militant atheism may also be a factor in the shooter’s motives. Nietzsche is the well-known atheist philosopher who decried the “slave morality” of Christianity and proclaimed “God is dead”. The shooter in the Garielle Giffords case (Jared Lee Loughner) was a militant atheist. Militant atheists like Richard Dawkins and the American Atheists group have even called for the eradication of Christianity. But the vast majority of atheists are not violent.
On the other hand, aggressive violence is forbidden to authentic Bible-believing Christians because Jesus did not shed anyone’s blood. Authentic Christians debate and persuade using evidence, because that’s what Jesus did. The most we could do is participate in a just war like the Korean War or the Gulf War. Christians stopped slavery. Christians save unborn babies. We’re for strict non-violence.
American Power Blog has more on the left’s continued smearing of the Family Research Council as a “hate group”:
More from Kerry Picket, “Human Rights Campaign posted Ryan would speak at ‘hate group’s annual conference’ day before shooting at FRC.” And At Twitchy, “Dangerous: Left screeched about Ryan speaking at ‘hate group’ FRC; HuffPo labels FRC hate group again.” And, “Shooting at Family Research Council, suspect in custody; Update: Bomb squad enters building; Update: Mitt Romney issues statement; Update: Shooter ID’d.”
More at Legal Insurrection, “HuffPo attacks Family Research Council just hours after shooting.”
At this point, I think that anyone who uses the word “hate” to describe supporters of traditional marriage should be careful that they are not inciting anyone to violence. We have to do more to promote tolerance and oppose anti-Christian / anti-conservative bigotry on the extreme left. Almost no one on the right calls people who disagree with them names like “hater”. We need to stop with the name-calling and just discuss things civilly and agree to disagree. Every person deserves respect no matter what they think.
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WINTERY KNIGHT 
Labeling legitimate, opposing views as hate speech and naming organizations as hate groups has been a successful tactic for the left. In the long run however it is doomed to fail. Actions and the foundational principles behind them reveal the true nature.
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Have Southern Poverty Law Center track Left leaning hate groups?
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LOL! Are you kidding me?
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It depends on how you define left and right, I suppose. SPLC does include “Black Separatist” as one of the categories of groups in its “Intelligence Files”:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology
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Thanks!
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“But the vast majority of atheists are not violent.”
Wintery Knight I think you need to rethink this. Since most atheists engage in abortion and possibly infanticide they are actually very violent and bloody.
As you said in another post: “If they are willing to kill innocent children in order to escape the consequences of recreational sex, they could do anything.” Which most atheists do.
They may not be killing adults, but moving form children to adults is never hard.
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“The most we could do is participate in a just war like the Korean War or the Gulf War. Christians stopped slavery. Christians save unborn babies. We’re for strict non-violence.”
This needs to be more clearly disentangled since these two view: non-violence and just war are in commensurable. If you support defensive war you should more accurately claim you believe in non-aggression.
Non-violence is defined as: abstention from violence as a matter of principle; also : the principle of such abstention.
Just war is the use of war for the defense of the innocent.
Strict non-violence is pacifism. Just war and non-violence are not compatible. You might in fact be a pacifist; if you are I suggest you not mention just war. If you believe in just war than you should replace non-violence with non-aggression or defensive use of violence.
In Christ,
Todd
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