Saturday, March 25, 2006
A minister’s wife shoots husband
From an AP story:
No doubt this has to be a shock to the congregation but invariably there will be those to connect fundamentalism and guns to suit their beliefs. Do you think this is just a tragic isolated incident or a disturbing sign of the extremes of fundamentalism?
SELMER, Tenn. - A minister’s wife was charged Friday with shooting her husband to death in the parsonage in a crime that shocked the congregation and shattered the couple’s happy and loving image.
Mary Winkler, 32, was arrested on murder charges and confessed to the slaying after fleeing to Alabama in the family’s minivan with the couple’s three young daughters, authorities said. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent John Mehr said authorities know the motive for the killing but he would not disclose it.
No doubt this has to be a shock to the congregation but invariably there will be those to connect fundamentalism and guns to suit their beliefs. Do you think this is just a tragic isolated incident or a disturbing sign of the extremes of fundamentalism?
