"We're a happy family"

Chalk one up for the same sex marriage opponents. This should remind us why children are better off in a "traditional family" household.

A bank executive who said he had battled depression for years was sentenced to life in prison for killing his 5-year-old twin daughters. David Crespi, 45, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder to spare his family the trauma of a trial and possible death penalty.

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Norma Jean Roberts will not be eligible for parole until she is at least 90 years old.
The Keller woman was sentenced Friday to 80 years in prison for the murder of her 11-year-old daughter, Kelsey.
Prosecutors said Mrs. Roberts, 50, took her daughter's life because she did not want to share the girl with her estranged husband. Her intentions were carved in a message in the dining room table at her home where the girl's lifeless body was found Aug. 5. She was suffocated.
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It works the other way as well:

LAUREL, MS -Another grizzly homicide in Laurel thursday leaves a father dead, a mother severely wounded, and a son behind bars. Laurel police say a domestic assault escalated into murder. Authorities are not yet releasing the identities of the victims or the son in custody. They say the son killed his father with an ax, then attacked his mother.


and in the flamboyant priest department:

CONNECTICUT
Church: Priest misspent cash
BRIDGEPORT — A priest who resigned in May misspent up to $1.4 million in parishioner donations to lead a life of luxury with another man, according to a church-directed investigation. The Rev. Michael Jude Fay spent church money on limousines, stays at top hotels, jewelry, Italian clothing and a Florida condominium, auditors hired by the diocese found.

I'm just randomly sifting through news today and found this in the Dallas Morning News....interesting:

In 1915, the Texas Colored Teachers Association condemned a new and "immoral" form of music – ragtime. In the 1920s, a coalition of ministers denounced the soulful harmonies and sexual hip-swiveling of rhythm and blues. Later, gospel was criticized as sinfully irreverent; rock 'n' roll was cited as evidence of social decay; folk, it was said, provoked civil unrest. Historians, academics and artists say Dallas police stepped into a century-old quagmire two weeks ago when they suggested the motive for a double-slaying could be found in the profane, taunting lyrics of a song by Lil Jon and East Side Boyz.