Well if your Tony Perkins, you blame the “secular media“:

It is hard not to draw a line between the hostility that is being fomented in our culture from some in the secular media toward Christians and evangelicals in particular and the acts of violence that took place in Colorado yesterday. But I will say no more for now other than that our friends at New Life Church and YWAM are in our thoughts and prayers.

(h/t Think Progress)

The wingnuts were going crazy yesterday over the reports that Matthew Murray, the Colorado gunman, “hated Christians”. Powerline even went as far as to equate this to hate crimes against Muslims:

A law enforcement official says the deadly rampages at a megachurch and a missionary training school were believed to have been carried out by the same person—Matthew Murray, a 24-yeare-old suburban Denver man who “hated Christians.”

Of course there is one simple fact they fail to disclose in all their outrage:

The gunman was identified as Matthew Murray, 24, who was home-schooled in what a friend said was a deeply religious Christian household. Murray’s father is a neurologist and a leading multiple-sclerosis researcher.

I don’t see anything in there indicating the “secular media” may have helped lead to this carnage. One thing I did see that might be an indicator of what put this young man over the edge:

Colorado Springs police said the “common denominator in both locations” was Youth With a Mission. The training center maintains an office at the 10,000-member church.

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In a statement, the training center said health problems kept Murray from finishing the program but elaborated little. Murray did not complete the lecture phase or a field assignment as part of a 12-week program, Youth With a Mission said.

“The program directors felt that issues with his health made it inappropriate for him to” finish, it said.

There is no report yet on what health issues caused him to be kicked out of the program, but it would be a safe guess that Murray have held some resentment because of being kicked out, not because of the “secular media” like Perkins tries to imply.

It would have been nice if Tony Perkins waited a few days to get the facts we all want on this tragedy instead of rushing to exploit it in his own crusade against the media. Perhaps the “secular media” will remember this next time they ask Perkins to appear for interviews.