Posted on 03/18/2023 7:23:44 PM PDT by marshmallow
CV News Feed // An act of vandalism against a Catholic church in Connecticut over the weekend marked a grim milestone: The 300th known attack on a Catholic church in America since the spring of 2020.
Police in Ledyard, Connecticut say a man broke into Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church on Saturday night and vandalized it by breaking windows and writing on the walls. They released surveillance images of the suspect and reported that the state’s hate crimes unit is assisting the investigation.
CatholicVote has been tracking the attacks since the civil unrest that followed the death of George Floyd in May 2020. The riots started a wave of violence and vandalism against Catholic churches that only accelerated after the unrest died down.
“This epidemic of violence against Catholic churches has created a climate of fear for Catholics around the country,” said Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote. “This is an unacceptable state of affairs – no American should have to walk around wondering, ‘Is my church next?'”
In 2020 and 2021, most of the attacks appear to have been motivated by general anti-Catholic ideology, specifically from Black Lives Matter rhetoric. Since the Supreme Court draft opinion in the Dobbs case was leaked in May 2022, however, most of the attacks have been perpetrated by pro-abortion extremists. 140 of the attacks have taken place since the Dobbs leak last May.
Acts of vandalism now frequently feature spray-painted, threatening messages like “if abortions aren’t safe, neither are you.”
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicvote.org ...
Leftists want to separate church and state——or separate church believers from life itself if they can.
That’s just down the road from the sub base in New London CT .... hmmm ....
FBI approved?
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