[scottjewell]

A nice attempt, but perhaps too expedient?

To my thinking, it is convenient to display a show of "solidarity" to make one's own group image appear noble -

and only after harassing and reviling people as belonging to hate groups, and stifling any words of dissent for years....Perhaps a case of "too little too late"...

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

At least they didn’t say “stands behind”.

[Dr. Sivana]

I have no use for these groups, but the response was appropriate. If they didn’t issue such a response, we would (rightly) accuse them of being supportive.

They perform plenty of evil, but supporting FRC against direct violence was not evil.

[Uncle Slayton]

The Family Research Council shooter’s actions cannot be separated from the agenda or true motives of the Homosexual Agenda Movement and all are responsible.

[kjo]

Just imagine if the ideology of the victim institution and the shooter were reversed...??? The media would be on the air non-stop showing the “hate” from the Right.

The double-standard of the media is the size of the Grand Canon.

[EdReform]

They’re in ‘cover your ass’ mode

[JediJones]

This situation kind of puts them in a tough spot between banning gans or supporting same-sex marriage. Maybe if the guy had also worn a pro-Obamacare T-shirt it would have tipped the scales in his favor.

[mykroar]

a non-profit organization that fights anti-gay religious extremism

Nice to see WaPo's not editorializing. /sarc

[JediJones]

The shooter should have dressed himself up with a few more liberal causes to make sure the left would have his back on this.

[Godzilla]

There are unconfirmed reports that the shooting was ideologically motivated.

they are rafting on the river of denial.

[verum ago]

A nice attempt, but perhaps too expedient?

To my thinking, it is convenient to display a show of "solidarity" to make one's own group image appear noble -

and only after harassing and reviling people as belonging to hate groups, and stifling any words of dissent for years....Perhaps a case of "too little too late"...

No, this statement was the right thing for them to do. If they didn't say anything we'd be all over them for failing to condemn the shooter's actions.

There's probably some truth in their statement in that they're condemning violence. Many of the people in these groups are also pacifist types.

I'm not endorsing any of these groups or their actions, just saying that in addition to any cynical purpose to their statement (like trying to appear noble) there is probably a genuine horror at the violence of the action, if not in these groups' leadership, then at least with some of the members.

And just to throw this out there:
I know a gay man who's very in-your-face about it, and downright virulent at social events, always steering the conversation toward "the Cause" no matter what people are talking about. His reaction to this shooting was to angrily lament the fact that the guard didn't "do everyone a favor and put a few in that f***er's chest."

[Doomonyou]

... At this time, no major LGBT groups claim to have a direct connection to [the shooter].

Other than the fact that he worked for one.

[Uncle Miltie]

Slightly better than Muslims’ regular failure to refute terrorism.

[Hugin]

I just saw the FRC spokesman talking about how the SPLC “created the environment” for the attack by labling them a “hate group”. Interesting because that’s the term the SPLC has used in suing various skinhead and Klan groups. I would dearly love to see the SPLC hoisted on their own petard.

[jeffc]

But they still consider FRC and FoTF to be “hate groups”.

[jimjohn]

BINGO!

I called this one!

"Some attempted to connect the shooter to the Chick-Fil-A boycotts based on material found in his backpack, as well as link him to LGBT organizations..."

Obviously confirmed by the sympathy press releases.

And more proof that they are starting more and more to respond to the conservative media - even if they don't wanna admit it.

[kaehurowing]

Interesting how WaPo is scrubbing all the comments. They scrubbed mine. And say there is only one comment despite how long the story has been up.

Can you imagine what all the real comments are saying that they feel they have to delete every one of them? There must be thousands of them by now.

The Left hopefully soon is in fully panic retreat mode. People in this country are finally getting angry about the lawlessness of the Left, from Obama on down.

[fwdude]

They can keep their “solidarity” crap. They are directly responsible for this attack through their homoNazism.

Sorry, but this is a war. You don’t accept condolences from the enemy.