..........[SNIP] "We pray for Trayvon Martin to be in a better place," she [Gladys Zimmerman] said. "He is always in our prayers."
I have to laugh at this. Trayvon was banging your son's head on the pavement and he's in your prayers??? Maybe she really means that she's praying that he's burning in hell? I mean, why would you be praying for your son's attacker? My guess is the answer is this: "public relations!"
I'll tell you the kind of person that I am: If you attack me and I shoot and kill you in order to protect myself, you can be sure that I wouldn't be praying for you. Does this make me a bad person?
This reminds me of Rabbi's Kahane's retort to Golda Meir when she had bad feelings towards the Egyptians -- not because they attacked and killed Israeli's, but because that action forced Israeli's to kill Egyptians. Rabbi Kahane was aghast at that statement! He believed (and rightly so) that she should have been happy that the Israeli army was killing as many Egyptian soliders as they could. Rabbi Kahane wasn't praying for dead Egyptian soldiers, you can count on that. So, in an analagous manner, why is Zimmerman's mother praying for her son's attacker? My guess is that she's not praying for him at all.