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From the October 2 broadcast of the CBS Evening News:

  COURIC: Because of the tragedy in Pennsylvania, we’ve decided to hold the “Free Speech” we had planned to bring you. Instead, we’ve called on someone who knows all too well the pain the families in Lancaster County are feeling tonight. Brian Rohrbough lost his son Dan in the Columbine massacre, and we asked him to share his thoughts.

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  ROHRBOUGH: I’m saddened and shaken by the shooting at an Amish school today and last week’s school murders [in Bailey, Colorado]. When my son Dan was murdered on the sidewalk at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, I hoped that would be the last school shooting. Since that day, I tried to answer the question, “Why did this happen?”

  This country is in a moral freefall. For over two generations, the public school system has taught in a moral vacuum, expelling God from the school and from the government, replacing him with evolution, where the strong kill the weak without moral consequences. And life has no inherent value. We teach there are no absolutes, no right or wrong, and I assure you the murder of innocent children is always wrong, including by abortion. Abortion has diminished the value of children. Suicide has become an acceptable action and has further emboldened these criminals. We’re seeing an epidemic increase in murder/suicide attacks on our children.

  Sadly, our schools are not safe. In fact, we now witness that within our schools, our children have become a target of terrorists from within the United States.

  COURIC: The reflections tonight of Brian Rohrbough, whose son Dan was killed at Columbine. And coming up next, a look inside a world most of us never see, the private world of the Amish.

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By Cynner, October 4, 2006 at 9:15 am Link to this comment
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Oh come on Truthdig people:

1.  This man doesn’t work for CBS
2.  He is afterall a still-grieving father

While I’m glad I don’t live in his world and don’t agree with his views, “crackpot” is a little harsh and terribly juvenile.

Stop doing that! You’re acting like mainstream media..

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By Darrel Rowledge, October 4, 2006 at 8:41 am Link to this comment
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Following is my letter to CBS:

Since journalistic standards (objectivity, rational analysis, facts, science, truth) seem not to matter to your network, I’m now waiting to see if you even pretend to balance the simplistic nonsense you put on the air.

Specifically, I’m waiting for some balance to Brian Rohrbough’s hateful attack on science and liberty (Free Speech segment Oct. 2). Perhaps an atheist / scientist explaining just how many millions of people have been murdered in the name of toothfairy religions.

Mr. Rohrbough’s horrific loss, his heartache, and even his feelings are understandable. But CBS News bears a burden of responsibility; one that you have failed. The hypocrisy of relying on science-based technology for your very existence and your personal profit, yet presuming to overrule or disavow equally rational and factual science in order to perpetuate mindless mythology, ignorance, and relentless historical tryanny is simply absurd.

Please grow up.

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