VINDICATION

The day after the Nickel Mines school shooting I had a screaming shit fit at the News director at WGAL over how they were portraying the forgiveness thing. His point of reference was the visit made by the Amish to the Roberts family. I challenged him whether the word forgiveness had been used. He took offense to my query, saying that their reporters cross referenced the story.

An excerpt from "Amish Grace" by Kraybill, Nolt, and Zercher indicates someome took some liberty with what actually happened.

Amos, an Amish minister in one of the nearby church districts, described
it to us like this: "Well, there were three of us standing around at the
firehouse on monday evening. We just thought we should go and say something to
Amy, Robert's widow."


"we just talked with them for about ten minutes to express our sorrow
and told them we didn't hold any thing against them."

Generous? yes, pie in the sky goobly de gop about instant forgiveness of the shooter? it's not there is it? I have no doubt that these folks knew exactly what their faith expected of them, but they didn't make a big fuss about it. So who was it that did?

Bottem line, the Amish didn't push the forgiveness story.

The Grandfather who was interveiwed in the wee hours of the morning wasn't looking for an opportunity to tell the world that he had forgiven. Remember, it was the interveiwer who asked the question. Have you forgiven? As if she were at a sporting event querying a contestant who was facing the biggest challenge of their life.

BITCH