Posted on 11/06/2023 9:02:24 AM PST by Morgana
On March 27, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, which resulted in multiple fatalities. The attack was carried out by a transgender leftist who had written a “manifesto” which has currently been withheld due to public records requests made by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department as well as the activism of Southern Baptist Convention ERLC head, Brent Leatherwood.
Brent Leatherwood, head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy arm, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), is calling on TN lawmakers to back a proposal by Governor Bill Lee for an extreme risk protective order law, also known as red flag laws. The proposal would allow the state to temporarily restrict gun purchases if the state deems one to be a danger to themselves or others, yet the criteria that would be used to make the determination remains unclear.
Brent Leatherwood, who is also a parent of three children at Covenant School where the shooting by a deranged transgender assailant took place, shared his experience of receiving a call that a shooter was at the school. In a series of tweets on April 3, he recounted how the trauma and memories of the tragedy would be with his family for the rest of their lives.
“We’ve become numb to these tragedies as a society,” Leatherwood wrote on Twitter. “Defenseless, innocent lives being taken. We should never accept this as a reality. We need to commit ourselves to finding an answer to this epidemic and not rest until it is solved. Count me as a solution seeker on this.”
Unsurprisingly, Leatherwood has exploited this tragedy and used his platform as a Southern Baptist leader in order to advance stricter anti-Second Amendment gun control laws. In a letter addressed to Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, House Speaker Cameron Sexton, and all members of the legislature, Leatherwood presented an appeal from both his personal experience and on behalf of the majority Southern Baptist sentiment, according to The Tennessean. He urged lawmakers to ensure that no school in Tennessee ever has to endure the same nightmare as the Covenant School tragedy again.
Leatherwood told the lawmakers that Southern Baptists make up one-fifth of the population of Tennessee and have repeatedly called for ways to reduce gun violence, a seemingly veiled threat by the former leader of the TN Republican Party that he may use his power of leadership over Southern Baptists to sway the vote. “Other voices are saying there is too little time left in this legislative session to consider such a proposal. Little credence should be given to that,” he said in the letter, according to the Tennessean.
In a another report at the Epoch Times, it has been further revealed that Leatherwood has not only been advocating for stricter gun laws, but he’s also been working overtime to censor the manifesto written by the deranged transgender activist who killed innocent people on that day. While one would think that a conservative, Bible-believing Christian leader in his right mind could only think of a deranged, transvestite killer as an “unhinged activist,” instead, Leatherwood refers to those who are calling for transparency as such.
Brent and Meredith Leatherwood, parents of three children who were present that day, echo Kinney in saying their current anguish comes from “unhinged activists, unthinking partisans, conspiracy theorists, and various media outlets that value clicks over their community.”
The Leatherwoods said their family had also received “hints” of threats of legal action in order to intimidate them from trying to stop the release of the records. Leatherwood, through his position with the Southern Baptist Convention, has called on stricter gun laws following the shooting.
However, the manifesto which was leaked today by Steven Crowder tells a different story—one that would actually implicate much of the Southern Baptist Convention’s ERLC in advancing an ideology that would exacerbate such a depraved mindset to act out in violence against those who have been painted as “enemies” by the left.
The ERLC, primarily under the leadership of its former head, Russell Moore, and continued by Leatherwood, has repeatedly advanced the narrative of white privilege and systemic injustice. But in the leaked manifesto, we see that the reason this trans person carried out this attack is, unsurprisingly, identical to the reasons the ERLC has repeatedly laid out in favor of their social justice efforts—namely, white privilege.
Is this the real reason why Leatherwood didn’t want the manifesto released? Here are the leaked manifesto writings:
IMAGES FROM MANIFESTO ON LINK
If she was on SSRI’s, which I’ll lay odds on, those are very dangerous. Doctors hand out prescriptions for them like they’re candy, with little oversight.
Yes, fool! Go ahead and try to legislate an outcome. Gun free zones were supposed to do that. Stupid Leatherwoodenbrain has the intelligence of a flea.
That’s just three pages of notes and random comments.
This is a distraction.
Where’s the Manifesto we’ve heard about? Because this is not it.
bttt
I agree, this isn’t the manifesto.
So, there may be a video manifesto, as well?
However, the manifesto which was leaked today by Steven Crowder tells a different story—one that would actually implicate much of the Southern Baptist Convention’s ERLC in advancing an ideology that would exacerbate such a depraved mindset to act out in violence against those who have been painted as “enemies” by the left.
This could get interesting,...
Have I lost my memory, or was this school shooter a 100% white girl from an upper middle class family?
Let’s assume these images of her diary are legit. How did she come to embrace all this burning hatred of white people? Unraveling her radicalization into an anti-White, self-loathing mass murderer would seem to be incredibly instructive, and should be a law enforcement priority. Her thoughts seem like a product of Critical Race Theory. If so, where and how was she exposed to this?
Setting aside her blythe references to killing herself and others, her thoughts are organized and disciplined. She would never have made a successful “insanity” defense with these writings in evidence. Nothing there about gender issues we’ve been led to see as the likely motive. Based on the few pages shown, transgenderism was hyped to cover over her real motive: anti-white racism.
I was practically born a Southern Baptist and remained so pretty much my whole life but in recent years the leadership of the SBC has essentially sold its soul to the woke agenda and I can longer can call myself a Southern Baptist. I should have saw it coming when I joined the military and when going thru the processing line for dog tags I was asked my religious preference I stated Southern Baptist. I did not notice until it was too late that my tags said “SOB”.
Anyone who has managed to get a couple children through puberty can attest that a flood of hormones causes insanity...
No wonder they hid her documents. She was mentally twisted up by CRT/DIE.
No, it is not possible to engage in "hate speech" against white people, just like black people can't be racist.
Whenever men take women's hormones and women take men's hormones, don't think it works out very well no matter how one slices it.
The changes to the brain chemistry and thinking processes can't be good given the high suicide rate among that community.
no sane person would
democRATS...
[[I did not notice until it was too late that my tags said “SOB”.]]
Sheesh! Acronyms can be horrible lol
bump to the top
...and to paint with a very broad brush, anyone exhibiting any of the known tendencies of the 57 varieties of Queer would also need to be locked away.
Now try to get any State Legislature to appropriate the vast amount of dollars to make that happen.
The solution is not to be found in jail or the nut hatch. Even Moses holding the healing symbol for those bitten by the poisonous serpents found that many would not look despite the promise of healing.
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