Austin Bomber Suspect Railed Against Homosexuality, Abortion, And Sex Offender Registries
Details are emerging about Mark Conditt, the suspected Austin bomber who is believed responsible for five package bomb explosions that killing two people, injuring another five, and terrified the city.
Authorities have uncovered a blog the 24-year-old Conditt apparently kept during college, in which he condemned marriage equality, abortion, and sex offender registries. “I am not politically inclined," he wrote in a 2012 post for his U.S. government class at Austin Community College. "I view myself as conservative, but I don’t think I have enough information to defend my stance as well as it should be defended."
He added that he was taking the class to "help me clarify my stance and then defend it."
In a half-dozen posts written between February and May 2012, he addressed subjects ranging from the death penalty to terrorism. Conditt, who was homeschooled and grew up in a conservative Christian community, argued women should only have sex if they can provide for a child and insisted that "homosexuality is just not natural.”
"I do not believe it is proper to pass laws stating that homosexuals have 'rights,'" he wrote. "What about pedophilia or bestiality."
In other posts, Conditt argued that al Qaeda operative Majid Khan, who was charged with war crimes, should “get a life sentence twice over.”
He criticized registries for sex offenders for the ruining lives of those convicted of even small offenses: "Will putting him on a list make it better? Wouldn’t this only make people shun him, keep him from getting a job, and making friends? Just for a crime that he may have committed over 15 years ago as a adolescent?”
Conditt died Wednesday morning, blowing himself up as police closed in.