5 reactions to Nashville Christian school shooter’s leaked manifesto: 'We can handle the truth'

By CP Staff, Tuesday, November 07, 2023

The president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Brent Leatherwood, speaks in a panel discussion about religious persecution around the world and its connection to U.S. refugee resettlement and asylum policies on September 20, 2023, at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C. | The Christian Post/Nicole Alcindor

2. Brent Leatherwood

Brent Leatherwood, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and a parent of three children who attend The Covenant School, slammed Crowder for releasing the pages.

“The community, the school, [the] families who have already suffered so much, were left yet again to deal with this terror,” he said on Monday, according NBC affiliate WSMV.

Leatherwood called the individual who leaked the pages to Crowder, someone he said was likely a law enforcement member, a “viper.”

“You’re a member of the law enforcement community. You have now allowed this woman who terrorized our family with bullets to now terrorize us with words from the grave. How could you?”

He continued by calling the release a “senseless act of platform building.”

“How many more people have to be killed in a senseless way just to get clicks,” Leatherwood said, adding that no parent has been given “any sort of access” to the Covenant shooter’s writings.

“You have now allowed this woman who terrorized our families with bullets to now terrorize us with words from the grave. How could you?” Leatherwood said. “The online shock jock who aired these images I would challenge him and anyone who amplifies them online just be a human for once.”