Audrey Elizabeth Hale
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – I can imagine religious parents enrolling their children in Nashville’s Covenant School if their kids were confused about gender identity. It’s the logical alternative to public schools where kids might begin to transition without mom or dad even being told.
No doubt Audrey Elizabeth Hale was taught biblical truth when she was a student there. She’s female. No matter how she dresses, or what hormones she puts into her body, or however she ‘transitions’ to live her life as a man, she cannot change biology.
Her rage, which manifested itself as unspeakable violence, was that she was taught biblical truth. She was made as a woman. God did not make a mistake.
Trying to live your life as something you are not must be exhausting. In every social interaction, it would be natural to wonder if someone sees through you. If they recoil at the sight of you. If they treat you differently because you are playing make-believe, and are asking them to play along. And yet the truth of your gender confronts you everywhere: every time you use the lavatory, in every social, and certainly every sexual situation. In some people, this frustration will turn to violence as it appears to at Covenant.
But what is the point of violence? Is it to expose a school that stands in opposition to the LGBTQ agenda? Maybe. But why kill third grade school students? My experience is that most 9-year-olds don’t have an agenda about anything. Why kill school employees? Are they the oppressors of gender questioning students? Do they deserve to pay with their lives because they are teaching truth?
We’re discouraged from saying the names of serial killers. It gives them the attention they crave. This case is an exception. The shooter’s name is Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a woman. All the bullets and blood she could unleash doesn’t change who she is.
Chris Conley
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