Posted on 10/15/2022 6:40:39 PM PDT by lowbridge
A Catholic church in Lansing, Michigan, has released a security video that captured three hooded individuals vandalizing the church Oct. 8 with pro-abortion and anti-Catholic graffiti.
The three individuals can be seen approaching the Church of the Resurrection on East Michigan Avenue on foot and spray-painting graffiti on the walkway, the doors, and the church’s sign before fleeing the scene. It happened just before midnight.
Anyone with information about the vandalism should contact the Lansing Police Department.
The graffiti contained hateful and vulgar messages that lashed out at the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that federally legalized abortion nationwide.
The words “Abort the court” and “Death to Christian nationalism” were spray-painted in black on the walkway in front of the steps at the Church of the Resurrection. The vandals also painted a cross with a slash through it between those two statements.
Two upside-down red crosses were left on two of the church’s doors as well.
More red graffiti on the walkway spelled out “Feminism not fascism,” “smash patriarchy,” “Restore Roe,” and “Is overturning Roe worth your life or your democracy?”
Other graffiti, both on the walkway and the church’s LED-lighted sign, contained explicit language. A photo shows young children being exposed to the language as they walked out of Mass on Oct. 9.
One of the messages on the church’s sign read, “Kill all Christian nationalists.”
The church’s pastor, Father Steve Mattson, told CNA Wednesday that the cost of damages is estimated at $15,000. The Lansing Police Department is investigating the matter, he said.
Mattson said that the church’s sign now reads: “To whoever vandalized the sign, we forgive you and we’re praying for you.’”
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“Liberal Tolerance”
Free Scott Roeder.
Scum with a baby murder fetish.
SPJNK.
The Lansing PD could solve this quickly if they check security cameras in the adjacent area. I’m sure they’d see ppl getting out of their cars and putting on masks, etc. They’d rather rely on the community solving this crime instead of doing their jobs.
It used to be that Catholics would thrash such people on the spot. And *then* the police would arrest the vandals.
IOW, they weren’t caught at all, much less caught in the act.
I am so cynical now that I view all regular churches with a jaundiced eye.
Would this be one of the very many that has rolled over to celebrate homos and pander to BLM?
Because I find these incidents very ironic, most of the time.
I’m pretty good at figuring out acronyms but WTF does SPJNK mean? I see it frequently and I’ve looked it up but still no clue.
>Would this be one of the very many that has rolled over to celebrate homos and pander to BLM?
No. This is an outspoken outpost of authentic faith in the middle of a capital city run by Democrat wokists.
But...not a hate crime
“Is overturning Roe worth your life...”
You have FRMail...
Not many Catholics there at midnight Saturday.
I see it too.
I guess it’s too nasty to spell out in thopen forum.
Good to hear.
I’m sick of all the apostate churches. It’s one of the reasons I don’t go to church.
Did they get their “medal of freedom” from the turnip yet?
The Fascist Bureau of Intimidation will be along shortly with swarms of heavily armed, jack-booted agents in pre-dawn, no-knock raids to violently arrest the parish priest for opposing the demonrat sacrament of abortion.
Several decades from now, if they are lucky they will hit rock bottom and as part of their step work reconize the harm they caused and strive to make ammends.
...but I’m not holding my breath.
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