Their Philosophy Is a House of Cards So They Try to Ban the Wind
<p>When the girl went <a href="https://medium.com/human-parts/a-year-ago-we-lost-a-child-and-i-was-among-those-that-found-her-3dfdfe76a50f" rel="noopener">missing</a>, the local pastor wasn’t among those who searched to find her. That was left to <a href="https://medium.com/me/stats/post/d116381d9c7e" rel="noopener">Isak</a> and me. But when she was found and the national media turned up at my daughter’s school to cover the tragedy, old Gabe was there like an ambulance chaser in search of an easy buck.</p>
<p>As I stood in the parking lot, he sauntered over and said, “I thought I’d better show up because the media doesn’t know how to behave itself.” Then he winked.</p>
<p>Right then, the media was the last thing on my mind. I was still paralyzed with shock over what had happened. In fact, I was in such a bad state that it should have been obvious to anyone who claimed it was his occupation to care for the human soul.</p>
<p>I guess Gabe was too fixated on the cameras to notice like a shepherd so focused on the flock that he couldn’t see the sheep.</p>
<p>My daughter emerged from the school and I got out of there. I didn’t want her or me or my car to appear in the background of any footage. All the different news trucks were perched about like vultures and the pastor stood before them basking in the shadow of notoriety.</p>
<p>Uvalde happened a few days later. I made a social media post denouncing assault rifles. Pastor Gabe chirped in to defend the Second Amendment. I’ve asked him to use the pulpit to denounce racism in response to harassment directed at my wife and children, but he didn’t want to “offend” his congregation. He didn’t want to get “too political.”</p>
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