Thoughtprints

I agree with you on everything you said. It is sad that she cannot be with her children. She is going to need alot of help financially. It is going to be really really hard on her. Amazing what can happen to some people when they are so scared.

She is such a liar.

Wow! I live in McMinnville and it is amazing the readiness of judgement that has been "handed" out on this verdict.
Mary is a friend of mine and I have known her for years. I think the decision that the jury has made is fair.
Several things do bother me however in the comments that are being made. 1. My hugeist "pet peeve" is the so called "christians" who want to use the 10 Commandments as there reasoning for sentencing Mary to life, however they have so easily failed to remember that among these 10 Commandments under the terms of "Thou shalt not kill" abortion, and euthanasia would also fall, but so many people today want to overlook these acts. "Thou shalt not commit adultry, and Thou shalt not covet" are commandments that have just as much of an impact in the eyes of the Lord! And they will be judged as so.
2. If you have never walked in the shoes of an abused woman, or have had a sister, friend, etc. that you have gone through this experience with then you really have no clue of what you are talking about! I mean none! Sure there are alternatives, there is help, just like the alternatives and help that I sought five years ago, guess what?, five years later because of the contact we have due to children, I am still being mentally abused, and now my children have to suffer that same abuse. Are you aware that of 100 children who have suffered sexual abuse only 25% will tell someone? This makes me wonder if there is so much help being offered and so many "easy" alternatives offered why do we not have a bigger turn around rate?
Naturally this case will be talked about for a long time, books will be wrote, and who knows maybe movies made. I can only pray that this will help to raise an awareness of abuse, & mental limitations.
We can never know the snapping point of one person versus another.
Sad, sad, sad, Did Mary murder her husband? Yes, this was never in question, did she intentially kill him, premeditate it, gather some plot from a Lifetime movie? Never, it is ignorant to think so!~

I followed this story with a great deal of interest - coming from the perspective of having been a pastor's kid. It had to be rough for her living the way she did. People always idolize a minister but they never really know what that person is like behind closed parsonage doors. From personal experience - even if you tell, no one will believe you.
Did she kill him? Yes. But I'm sure, in her shoes, it looked like the only way out and, sadly, it might have been.

gb - Thank you so much for taking the time to leave your thoughts! You offer a unique perspective as someone who knows Mary. For the record, I completely agree with what you said. I'm glad you spreading the truth as you know it!

DJ - I think you are correct - about everything you said. People tend to blindly follow their ministers, pastors and priests, never thinking they could or would actually do something terrible. That kind of thinking is dangerous!

I feel this womens pain, My husband is a young pastor and the whole submit goes to far, i think that if they learn to love there wives and than we learn to submit......my husband does things and says things that are not Christ like and than he wants me to submit! God is working on us, but I seek higher counsel...all the time....

God is good, he never gives us to much, and he always gives us opportnity to get out of things...and we have resources....

no Sin is greater than any other.......

My husband is also a pastor and you can trust me, sometimes preachers are not what they seem. My husband is one of them. The man I see at church is nothing like the one I have at home. My daughter and I were recently at church and she looked at my husband while he was preaching and said "Who is that?" and looked at my husband, I said said his name and she said, "well that is not the one that lives at our house." Both of children have begged me to divorce him, but I won't do that. I have got to stick it out. But this is really hard to do. This is not the life I signed up for. I have tried to tell him that something has to change but because he is the "head of the house"