According to an article on CNN, a Missouri DRAFTING teacher asked his students to write an essay about who they want to kill and how they might commit the murder. First, a DRAFTING class has nothing to do with writing murder essays. But, a more important concern is that this is a man who is in charge of impressionable young people. He is an authority figure. He asked them to describe how they would end the life of a person of their choosing.

Our society embraces the disgusting culture of death. We have violent movies, television, video games, etc. We have approximately 3,700 surgical abortions EVERY DAY. Doctors continue to try to end the lives of innocent disabled persons such as Terri Schiavo. Now a teacher has taken yet another opportunity to get young people thinking about death. This accomplishes nothing other than to desensitize people to killing. With our violent culture, what if someone acted out on their "writing prompt" (as the teacher called it)?

The teacher has apologized and the principal has labeled it a "lapse in judgment." We are called to forgive the teacher and pray for him. But, one must wonder why this happened. Do we not have enough killing in this society? Why did this authority feel the need to get young people thinking about killing? Society's fascination with killing people simply must stop. Human beings are a masterpiece of God. He NEVER created them to be willfully killed by other people. Period.