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Christian School Bomb Scare: Caller Demands Public Support for Homosexual Marriage
Agape Press ^ | 9/12/03 | Jim Brown

Posted on 09/13/2003 6:47:09 AM PDT by truthandlife

recent bomb threat targeted an Ohio church school because of its strong opposition to homosexuality.

Last week, St. Paul Lutheran Church and School in Westlake received a call from an individual who ordered its pastor to go on local television and change his position on homosexual marriage. The caller said if his demands were not met in one hour, the church and school would be blown up.

After all 280 students in the school were evacuated, Westlake police searched for a bomb but came up empty.

St. Paul principal Jim Krupski says the caller disagreed with the Lutheran Missouri Synod's conservative stance on homosexuality. "That's as much as we know," he says, "and we leave it in the hands of God to hopefully turn this person's heart so that they repent of what they've done and come to forgiveness in Jesus Christ."

St. Paul is not the only Christian facility in the area that has had to deal with challenges to a traditional biblical stance lately. Just a few weeks earlier, a janitor at a non-denominational church in Westlake was beaten by a group of homosexual men in apparent retaliation for the church pastor's sermon against the sin of homosexuality.

But apart from the bomb scare, St. Paul suffered no ill effects from the threat of violence. Krupski says parents were obviously concerned during the evacuation and afterward, because the school's staff were mainly occupied with taking care of the students rather than getting in touch with parents.

"We stressed very much with our students that God was there to protect and comfort and take care of them," he says. The school's leader says the faculty and staff spent time in the classrooms conducting small-group discussions and helping students deal with what had happened. "The kids were fine, and the parents for the most part were very happy with how things went," he says.

According to Krupski, things have returned to normal on St. Paul's campus. The Ohio principal says the school has not had to take extra security precautions since the bomb threat because the facility is locked up daily.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: bombscare; christians; christianschools; homosexualmarriage; homosexuals; radicalleft; stpaullutheran
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This definitely won't make the evening news but I bet if the gay school in NY received a bomb threat it would be the first story on every station.
1 posted on 09/13/2003 6:47:10 AM PDT by truthandlife
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To: truthandlife
Sorry, the authorities don't have resources to devote to solving this crime. Instead, all available units are out looking for right wing militia members.
2 posted on 09/13/2003 6:50:03 AM PDT by Ahban
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To: truthandlife
Of course you are correct. But certainly such persecution doesn't surprise you, does it?
3 posted on 09/13/2003 6:50:14 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun
No it does not surprise me and I do believe that Christians will be persecuted more in this country in the coming years.
4 posted on 09/13/2003 6:53:16 AM PDT by truthandlife
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To: truthandlife
Agreed. And I would submit that Christians will be hardest hit by those who claim to be the biggest champions of civil rights.
5 posted on 09/13/2003 6:56:59 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun; truthandlife; Ahban
Amen to the above posts.
6 posted on 09/13/2003 7:07:10 AM PDT by viaveritasvita (Please come soon, Lord!)
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To: anniegetyourgun; truthandlife; Ahban
Amen to the above posts.
7 posted on 09/13/2003 7:07:17 AM PDT by viaveritasvita (Please come soon, Lord!)
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To: truthandlife
Thank God no one was hurt- this time.
8 posted on 09/13/2003 7:10:48 AM PDT by keats5 (And don't you dare correct my spelling!)
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To: truthandlife
"After all 280 students in the school were evacuated, Westlake police searched for a bomb but came up empty."

Looks like the gay terrorist blew it.

9 posted on 09/13/2003 7:34:01 AM PDT by TheCrusader
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To: truthandlife
This definitely won't make the evening news...

Neighbor, you've got that right! I just went through the on-line edition(s) of the Cincinnati and Dayton newpapers. I couldn't find a word about this. Not one.
Now this isn't to say it's not there but if it is there they took care not to make this story too obvious.

10 posted on 09/13/2003 8:12:06 AM PDT by yankeedame ("I assure you I was just whistling for a cab.")
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To: truthandlife
Christian School Bomb Scare: Caller Demands Public Support for Homosexual Marriage

It's not about marriage, it's about the money (benefits).
Dr. James Dobson spent most of yesterday's (Friday) show reading off literature
citations on this issue in response to the heat he got from GLAAD and other
homosexual activists after his latest appearance on Larry King's show.
11 posted on 09/13/2003 8:14:10 AM PDT by VOA
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>>>It's not about marriage, it's about the money (benefits). <<<

Are there really benefits? I thought there was a "marriage penalty", at least until recently. I'd be interested in seeing an analysis of this.
12 posted on 09/13/2003 8:17:43 AM PDT by MalcolmS
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To: VOA
I sent an e-mail to CNN thanking them for having Dr. Dobson on the Larry King show. If anyone is interested:

http://frc.org/

13 posted on 09/13/2003 8:44:47 AM PDT by ladylib
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To: MalcolmS
Are there really benefits? I thought there was a "marriage penalty", at
least until recently. I'd be interested in seeing an analysis of this.


Besides the current phasing out of any marriage penalty in the tax codes,
the real aim is for "married" gays to be treated just like a married couple when it
comes to tapping employer and government benefits.

Hey, I'm not bashing gays on this issue.
It's just that they should be honest that the real aim is to get the same
financial arrangements that our country (and employers) extend to married couples.
I get the feeling that a lot of the gay lobby thinks most of America is too slow
to figure this out, but they slip up now and then and even say this is their goal.
Dobson read a number of published letter and articles during his Friday broadcast that
showed this.

I suspect that the gay lobby would be more likely to achieve this goal of
such financial treatment by just being honest about it.
14 posted on 09/13/2003 8:55:57 AM PDT by VOA
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To: truthandlife
I don't expect the media to carry this story. For every abortion clinic bombed or burned, there are 17+ churches burned or bombed. The press won't reveal this either. The persecution has already begun. It started at the top (judges, etc) and will work its way down soon.
15 posted on 09/13/2003 8:57:30 AM PDT by aimhigh
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To: truthandlife
The Gaystapo strikes again, and the press is silent.

What's it going to take?
16 posted on 09/13/2003 9:04:42 AM PDT by ItsOurTimeNow ("The board is set. The pieces are moving. We come to it at last...the Great Battle of our time.")
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To: aimhigh
The persecution has already begun. It started at the top (judges, etc) and will work its way down soon.

I don't know if you have heard about this new book by Judge Bork but that is pretty much what he said.

Judge Bork: Judicial Activism Is Going Global


17 posted on 09/13/2003 9:05:44 AM PDT by truthandlife
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To: VOA
I missed the Larry King appearance. Can anyone give me a brief synopsis of what was said as well as Dobson's show on Friday?
18 posted on 09/13/2003 1:28:51 PM PDT by bluebunny
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To: lemondropkid56
Can anyone give me a brief synopsis of what was said as well as Dobson's show on Friday?

I didn't see/hear it...but since you've not gotten a response, I'll tell you what I know.

From Dobson's speaking on his own radio show, my impression is that King got
plenty of complaints from GLAAD and other gay/lesbian activists/groups
saying Dobson was a liar, hateful, homophobic, etc, etc.

Dobson spent about 15 minutes of his own radio show simply reading off short synopses of
the peer-reviewed articles and published news articles that he'd relied upon in
making his comments on the King show, including things like Center For Disease Control
studies, European medical surveys, etc.

And IIRC, Dobson said that some of the complainers wanted some representative of their
side to appear with Dobson whenever he was on the King show in the future...
and I think Dobson in so many words said that would be fine with him.

Anyway, it seems to me that GLAAD and other groups complaining about Dobson
is about like Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo complaining about Frank Capra's "Why We Fight"
film series.

In other words, "How dare you faithfully tell the public what we've said and make
our real agenda clear to the average Joe and Josephine!".
19 posted on 09/14/2003 8:26:57 AM PDT by VOA
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St. Paul principal Jim Krupski says the caller disagreed with the Lutheran Missouri Synod's
conservative stance on homosexuality.


Translation of what the caller means:
"How dare the Luthern Missouri Synod actually read and understand the
Bible, most notably the first chapter of Romans!?"
.

The caller won't be happy until quite a few passages of the Bible are lined out,
just like the black lines of redactions in a government report.
20 posted on 09/14/2003 8:30:25 AM PDT by VOA
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