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Creep of the Week: Eric Rudolph

Eric Rudolph

Blowing things up is a pretty creepy thing to do, especially if you're doing it to punish folks who don't have the same ideological agenda as you (by the way, that's called terrorism). Thus, Eric Rudolph – who pleaded guilty April 13 to the 1997 bombing of a lesbian nightclub in Atlanta, the bombing of two family planning clinics, and the 1996 bombing at the Atlanta Olympics – is this week's creep.
Rudolph, who was on the run from the police for years until he was captured in North Carolina in 1993, is expected to be sentenced to four consecutive life terms.
Rudolph railed against abortion and homosexuality in his written statement that was handed out after his plea and said force is justified to stop both.
He said he doesn't hate homosexuals, he just feels sorry for them. "But when the attempt is made to drag this practice out of the closet and into the public square in an 'in your face' attempt to force society to accept and recognize this behavior as being just as legitimate and normal as the natural man/woman relationship, every effort should be made, including force if necessary, to halt this effort," his plea read. Yikes.
He continues, "Whether it is gay marriage, homosexual adoption, hate crimes laws including gays, or the attempt to introduce a homosexual normalizing curriculum into our schools, all of these efforts should be ruthlessly opposed. The existence of our culture depends upon it." Does Rudolph write press releases for Focus on the Family? Other parts of his manifesto sound like Bush Administration policy statements. Does it really surprise anyone that Rudolph, a terrorist, sounds exactly like the right-wing nuts running the country? It shouldn't.
But Rudolph doesn't seem to like Republicans much. According to Rudolph, "The Republican party is the modern day equivalent to the Pharisaical sect in ancient Judea," and quoted Matthew 23:28: "You are like whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and inequity."
I can't say I disagree with him. The scary thing is he thinks the party needs to move even further right and take up arms against abortion providers and pushers of the "homosexual agenda."
Thankfully Rudolph is in jail, but there are more like him out there. I fear the ride into Scaryville is just picking up speed, my friends. Make sure you're belted in.

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