Shooter Read Sexist Christian Author's Book Before Pittsburgh Female Aerobics Class Massacre

Sodini's final reading: a book by sexist Fundamentalist who claimed husbands own their wives, as property.

Media analysis has so far ignored or glossed over Sodini's religious affiliations but the shooter's Internet diary suggest his last readings were the Bible and a book by a Texas evangelist, R.B. Thieme, Jr. who has written that husbands own their wives, as literal property and promoted an odd teaching that for each man on Earth there exists only one correct "right woman" in all creation. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 12, 2009

The connection between sexist religion and a mass murderer of women is interesting, and if it has been reported in mainstream right wing media, I have not seen it there.

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