yeah, right... good luck wi that
Posted on 10/28/2020 5:25:34 PM PDT by marshmallow
Denver Newsroom, Oct 28, 2020 / 03:56 pm MT (CNA).- Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco has asked the Marin County district attorney to prosecute those arrested after an Oct. 12 riot at a mission church to the “full extent of the law,” after several of the rioters defaced and pulled to the ground a statue of St. Junipero Serra.
“This attack on a cherished religious symbol on our own church property is not a minor property crime, but an attack on Catholics as a people,” Cordileone wrote in an Oct. 26 letter to Lori Frugoli, the Marin County district attorney.
“If the perpetrators of this crime are not brought to justice, small mobs will be able to decide what religious symbols all people of faith may display on their own property to further their faith, and they will continue to inflict considerable spiritual suffering on ordinary Catholic people who would see our sacred spaces as unprotected by law.”
The riot that led to the statue’s destruction took place Oct. 12— which California and several other states mark as Indigenous Peoples Day— at Mission San Rafael Arcángel in San Rafael, about 20 miles north of San Francisco.
Critics have lambasted Serra as a symbol of European colonialism and the erasure of Native culture, and have in recent years sought to remove monuments to him and change the names of streets or landmarks named for him.
During the hourlong protest, organized by members of the Coast Miwok tribe, several masked people peeled off the duct tape and threw red paint in the statue’s face. At least five people can be seen pulling on the statue’s head with nylon cords and ropes.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicnewsagency.com ...
yeah, right... good luck wi that
Good thing the thought crime from 1984 brought to life as a “hate crime” does not apply to actual hate, but to politic affiliation or those poor Biden Voters would be in trouble for breaking into Church grounds and destroying tens of thousands of dollars worth of property.
No harm no foul against communist party members.
Crystal natch in America as the new Furer rises to power.
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