Headline AP: Bible Argument Spurs Boiling-Oil Charge
EUGENE, Ore. – A woman is accused of pouring boiling oil on her boyfriend’s face in an argument over a Bible verse.
Angela S. Morris, 19, was charged with domestic violence assault and jailed on $250,000 bail. Her 31-year-old boyfriend, whose name was not released, was hospitalized with severe burns on his face, neck and chest.
The two were reading the Bible at the boyfriend’s apartment May 13 when Morris went to the kitchen to prepare french fries, police said.
Morris told police that they continued to argue and that her boyfriend grabbed her from behind. Police said he then went to his bedroom to lie down. Morris followed and threw the oil on him, police said.
In another account, the man denies they were arguing about a Bible verse. The woman is the only one claiming they were arguing about a Bible verse before she attacked him.
And so my question is, what Bible verse does she say they were arguing about before she decided to attack him with boiling oil?
How about one of these?
A soft answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Good sense makes one slow to anger,
and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
