Posted on 06/27/2023 6:37:04 PM PDT by Morgana
As millions pro-life Americans across the country celebrated the Dobbs decision protecting babies from abortions, someone set a Catholic Church on fire in Orlando, Florida.
The attempted arson follows over 300 pro-abortion acts of violence against pro-life groups, churches pregnancy centers and pro-life individuals. That and the fact that the church was set ablaze on the prominent pro-life anniversary makes it appear likely that a radical abortion activist was responsible.
The fire at the Incarnation Catholic Church in Orlando, Florida caused severe damage to botht he inside and outside of the building and was reported late at night on Saturday evening. Sadly, the church is essentially detroyed.
The Catholic News Agency has more on what happened:
According to the Orlando Fire Department, the fire was coming from the rear end of the building. Firefighters were able to put out the blaze in 22 minutes and no one was in the church at the time. No injuries were reported from the fire.
The cause of the fire is under investigation. There is no estimated cost in damages at this time, a spokesperson for the department told CNA Monday. The pastor of the church, Father William Holiday, told clickorlando.com that “the church for all intents and purposes on the inside is destroyed.”
“We did lose some paintings and some statues and things like that, but there were some things in there, there was a picture of the Blessed Virgin Mary in there … and it did not have a mark on it,” he said.
Holiday didn’t want to speculate on whether the church was targeted or not, the outlet reported, saying that “if it’s circumstantial, it’s God’s providence; if it’s possibly intentional, that’s in God’s providence also.”
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Pro-life advocates increasingly have become targets of violence since news leaked last May about the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. LifeNews counted more than 300 attacks since 2022, including the shooting of an elderly pro-life woman in Michigan and 10 arson/attempted arsons.
College campuses especially have grown hostile toward people who believe babies in the womb should have a right to life. In May, a Hunter College art professor was caught on video vandalizing a pro-life student display and later threatening two journalists with a machete. Numerous pro-life student clubs also have been victims of vandalism, harassment and threats this spring.
In November, FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted that most of the abortion-related attacks within the past year have targeted pro-life organizations. “Since the Dobbs decision, probably in the neighborhood of 70 percent of our abortion-related violence cases or threats cases are cases of violence or threats against … pro-life organizations,” he told a U.S. Senate committee.
Many pro-life organizations are increasing security and Republican lawmakers are demanding action from the Biden administration to crack down on the growing pro-abortion domestic terrorism. But, while the Biden administration has been aggressively working to expand the killing of unborn babies in abortions, it has done little to stop the hostilities directed at pro-life advocates and churches.
If you believe that a woman has a “constitutional right” to terminate the life of an unborn child, you might have no problem with setting a church on fire.
“Merrick’s Marauders”
Wray and Garland see nothing. Like Schultz.
Security cameras (Arlo, Kasa, etc) are fairly cheap these days. I’m surprised there is so little video of the perps in such circumstances.
So far, we've solved one case of trash dumping with the system - and some of our charity folks handing out way more food per person than planned - but no vandalism yet.
I think that they were skeptical when I - a former Marine - was appointed Security Officer - but so far, so good.
That’s correct, and good riddance to roe v wade!
Abortion, Buggery, Contraception, and Mutilation are the “sacraments” of their satanic religion.
These Marxists accuse the Maga crowd as terrorists. They are the ones burning, looting, and defacing buildings.
That is the lefts M O they are ALWAYS DOING exactly what the accuse us of, that includes racism!!!
Exactly.
Yeah, right ...
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