Culture

Hope for Columbine

By Krista Kafer “Dead bodies don’t look like they do in the movies,” Marjorie Lindholm told the Rocky Mountain News. A survivor of the Columbine tragedy, Marjorie and her mother Peggy have published a book, A Columbine Survivor’s Story, about the grisly experience of that day.

A sophomore with dreams of one day becoming a doctor, Marjorie was taking a science class when shots erupted. By the time SWAT lead them out, the killers had executed their plan, a year in the making, leaving 13 students dead, many more wounded, and a community crushed by shock and grief.

Triad wedding illustrates downtrend

By Jeremy Schupbach jshoebox@mac.com Conservatives, when defending traditional marriage, often argue that allowing homosexuals to marry or to have state sanctioned civil unions would be a slippery slope leading to polygamy, polyamory, incestual marriages, and the like. Most liberal proponents of same-sex marriage are quick to retort that there is no way that the marriage between two men or two women could eventually lead to a marriage between three people. To these liberals, please allow me to present the start of the slide.