Don't hate me because I wrote an insensitive topic to a very serious post. I'll just blame the headline folks anyway. 
The Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church is about a mile from my old home, and I went by it practically every day going back and forth to school. When I was in college, my Fraternity had its initiation ceremony there a few times (That's right, fraternity. There were no farm animals or body fluids involved either.)
I never attended services there because I was brought up in another tradition. I was a pretty conservative type back then but I always figured that freedom of religion meant, well, freedom of religion. Period. Still do.
So this act of absolute insanity leads me to say I hope the shooter gets the full measure of justice, however that is determined.
The shotgun-wielding suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church was motivated by a hatred of “the liberal movement,” and he planned to shoot until police shot him, Knoxville Police Chief Sterling P. Owen IV said this morning.Yup. All those "Liberals and Gays" must have been working overtime to keep this guy unemployed. His own demons had nothing to do with it, one supposes.
Jim D. Adkisson, 58, of Powell wrote a four-page letter in which he stated his “hatred of the liberal movement,” Owen said. “Liberals in general, as well as gays."
Adkisson said he also was frustrated about not being able to obtain a job, Owen said.
The letter, recovered from Adkisson’s black 2004 Ford Escape, which was parked in the church’s parking lot at 2931 Kingston Pike, indicates he had been planning the shooting for about a week.
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Adkisson is accused of killing two people and injuring seven others. He is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Greg McKendry, 60. Also killed in the shooting was Linda Kraeger, 61, who was visiting the church from Westside Unitarian Universalist Church.
Police: Accused shooter hated liberals, expected to be killed : TVUU church shooting : Knoxville News Sentinel
