Colorado Shooting Suspect Aldrich's Links to Mormon Church Explained

Newsweek ^ | 11/21/2022 | Khalida Rahman

[BlackAdderess]

The man arrested in the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooting appears to have links to the Mormon church through his mother.

One post in July last year came weeks after Aldrich was arrested for allegedly threatening to harm his mother with a bomb and weapons.

"Hello Sisters. Does anyone know of a fantastic defense attorney? I ask this with a heavy heart but my family really needs some help at this time. We have cash to retain good counsel. Thank you," she wrote.

In February, Voepel asked if anyone could recommend "a great trauma/ptsd therapist?" In a comment, she said it was for a 21-year-old, the age Aldrich was at the time.

And in May, she wrote: "Can anybody refer my son to a private boxing coach? He's 6'6" tall and hits like a freight train.

[teppe]

All those who believe Senator Romney typifies members of “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints... Remember that Utah Senator Lee is also a member of the church... he actually graduated from BYU...

.... and they don’t like each other.

... In fact I don’t know anyone inside the church who likes Romney ...

[rlmorel]

That’s the truth...it is why I even made that comment!

[bgill]

Aldrich was arrested for allegedly threatening to harm his mother with a bomb and weapons.

Yet, he has been out free to plan this latest bit of insanity.

[dennisw]

This so called gay nightclub was lesbian too. Some nights of the week. also -— “Hey we got drag queen story hours too/!

How pathetic was this

[FarCenter]

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[DaxtonBrown]

“In fact I don’t know anyone inside the church who likes Romney ...”

But they all loved Harry Reid, the biggest scumbag in the universe. And I should know, I wrote the definitve Biography of Reid.

Mike Lee and his brother Stephen (Chief Justice of the Utah Supreme Court) both helped squash indictments on Reid for three major bribe charges in Salt Lake. Reid had been the Lee’s family counselor when they were growing up in DC, while their dad worked for Reagan and Reid was in Congress.

How do I know? I was a whistleblower.

[BlackAdderess]

Well, whatever the deal was, there is a very big step between bemoaning all of society being forced to walk on eggshells vs grabbing a bunch of guns and shooting people. The problem is that you have the people who are advocates of turning all of society into a giant therapy outlet (affirmations only, no home truths), that are pushing that narrative while there is clearly a mental health crisis going on that is not being adequately addressed. Apparently there were laws on the books that should have prevented this tragedy from happening.

There are a whole lot of people sick and tired of having to be all affirmative 24/7, at the risk of being blacklisted/banned/shunned should they stray for a moment away from approved happy talk. They say life goes on, but not so much.

[dennisw]

Very good! But this looks like the young ones will grow up in drag queen world and not know the difference

[Boogieman]

Well, taking up boxing isn’t the worst idea for a young man with anger and self control issues. Might be better than therapy sometimes, or at least therapy by itself.

[Brookhaven]

• He had a link to the Mormon church—through his mother.
• His uncle voted for Trump.

They are really stretching to find any connection to conservatives. If this is the best they can do, then they truth is: there are none.

Waiting any moment for his actual left wing beliefs to be exposed by the press. Any minute.

[Wayne07]

His grandfather was a Republican assembly member in California:

[californian by choice]

My great-grandmother was Jewish, so I have ties to Zionism?

[Steve_Seattle]

"Voepel asked if anyone could recommend "a great trauma/ptsd therapist?"

Was the therapist supposed to be for her or for her son?

[Steve_Seattle]

"...but any muslim mass murderwr is a lone wolf and it has nothing to do with islam, or so says newsweak."

Yep, not just Newsweek, but the entire MSM and Democrat Party, in chorus. If you hear everyone on TV calling Islam a "religion of peace," you can be sure there has just been another act of Islamic terrorism. It has become a ritual. It's a complete 180 from the way any conservative or right-wing violence is treated - blame is quickly spread as far and wide as possible, usually to the point of absurdity. This guilt-by-association with Mormonism and the perp's (MAGA, of course) Republican grandfather - who lives in another state - is typical.

[wintertime]

Yes, what’s going on with this murderer? I know nothing about him probably because he is a mentally ill Marxist.

[Steve_Seattle]

"So they jump to create some link to a church even though the guy was crazy and his mother involved in the church was looking to get help for him. Therefore this has nothing to do with the church. Please don’t be fooled by the constant attempt to destroy religion of any kind."

Typical MSM bigotry. We have heard NO evidence that the shooter was an active Mormon or that Mormonism had anything to do with his shooting rampage, so why are they dragging in his possible "links" to his mother's religion?

[ansel12]

Mitt Has also been a Bishop, and Stake President in charge of Bishops, he carries a Temple Recommend as Harry Reid did.

Mitt Romney is royalty in the Mormon church, his family immigrated to America in 1842 to more personally serve Joseph Smith.