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Gender Oppression And The Media

Sunday, December 9th, 2007, Matthew Murray entered New Life Church with a high-powered rifle and began open fire. The story of the armed gunman is not a new one for America; it had been a constant fear since the incidents of Columbine, and the tension was heightened when just a few months previous to this incident, what was defined as a massacre took place at Virginia Tech. This story ends differently from the school shootings, however; Murray was shot and killed by Jeanne Assam, a female security guard, who, as the media anxiously points out, is currently single.

This is not the first time New Life Church has been in the news. In November 2006, founder Ted Haggard resigned after being caught in a scandal involving soliciting homosexual sex from a male prostitute, as well as engaging in the use of meth. After three weeks of intensive counseling, Haggard was "given the tools to help embrace his heterosexual side" (Torkleson). Finally, the church would be allowed to continue......


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