Fire, Anti-Gay Graffiti at UCC Church After Same-Sex Marriage Resolution

You gotta love those rightwingers and their pretense that they love "liberty" and "freedom".

Fuck you George Bush.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBQURDAYAE.html

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Saturday, July 9

Fire, Anti-Gay Graffiti at United Church of Christ After Same-Sex Marriage Resolution
The Associated Press

MIDDLEBROOK, Va. (AP) - A small fire and anti-gay graffiti were found Saturday at a church belonging to the United Church of Christ, a denomination that endorsed same-sex marriage last week.

The exterior of St. John's Reformed United Church of Christ also included a message that United Church of Christ members were sinners.

A member of the congregation discovered the graffiti when he stopped by to mow the grass. He found a small fire within the sanctuary. The fire was put out in a few minutes, Lt. Tim McCray said.

A Virginia State Police fire investigator was on the scene Saturday afternoon, but declined to comment.

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I hope that all the churches in the area condemn this act. If any approve of it--well, that's where I'd be investigating.

meant to disrupt the political process of the church and fear in it's members.

im inclined to go with both on that one.

:sarcasm:

Set a church on fire? I don't think you can pervert Christianity enough, that setting a church on fire would ever be OK (?)

there isn't a dirty librul among them. I wish there were other words besides liberal and conservative. I'm so sick of hearing the word liberal used in such a derogatory manner.

you know you're doing something right. Happened all the time in the sixties, right?

remember the Birmingham Church bombing where the little girls were killed? Let's hope this incident doesn't elevate to violence at that level.

Wouldn't be surprised if people with the same mindset as those who did the Birmingham bombing are the ones responsible for this outrage.

And of course, the people who did this are probably also saying things like 'we need to close our borders to keep out the terrorists.'

Terrorism begins at home, apparently.

Tbink for a few minutes... they are using the same darn arguments and the same book to justify themselves.

From you-know-where. They justify absolutely everything to their own perverted sense of law and indecency.

from our friends, the Christofascists.

(NT)

I notice when a local columnist recounts his hate mail from either side over comments he's made, the right wing attacks on him are much more personal, threatening, and ugly. He pisses off the left and right regularly, but the right are the ones that wish him death and other sorts of atrocities regularly.. of course they usually are attacking him in the name of Christ. I kid you not.

Why are those people so afraid of gays? What is so precarious in their own lives that they cannot tolerate anyone different? I don't understand, and never will. UCCs stance on same-sex marriage actually tempts me back into some sort of religion, again.

I think this is the church that was attacked:

St John's Reformed United Church of Christ
1515 Arborhill Road
Staunton, VA 24401
540-885-2107


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They might as well have planted a burning cross in front of the church - no point in being coy about hatred.

I started my activist life with the UCC during the early sixties with the civil rights movement. We were right correct back then, and we're correct today. We will prevail in this battle - believe it!

What is it about vandalism and fires in houses of worship lately?

the one true faith.

When these assholes are apprehended and charged with a crime, the right wing will piss and moan about Christianity "being under attack in the courts." Bet on it.

:eyes:

This has nothing to do with Bush, but the ignornance innate to mankind.

He's a high-powered cheerleader for all mankinds' worst instincts. His mere presence in the White House eggs on his supporters. And because he won't denounce them in unambiguous terms, they feel empowered to keep acting out.

YHVH itself could come down in flames from heaven above and denounce these people in single-syllable words, and their response would be, "It's a trick from Satan." There is no God for them beyond what echoes inside their steel-ball skulls.

The simple fact that he is currently in power is meaningless.

This is similar to the whole burning of black churches myth when Clinton was in power.

What's crap back then is still crap today.

Fascinating, I'm sure.

If it's human nature, how come gay men and lesbians aren't hating gay men and lesbians?

And African-Americans hating African-Americans, and women hating women ...

The simple fact that he is currently in power is meaningless.

The simple fact that he is currently in power and others of his ilk are in power in huge swaths of the US, and on a long ascendancy in the media and the churches and legislatures of the land, is quite far from meaningless.

This is similar to the whole burning of black churches myth when Clinton was in power.
What's crap back then is still crap today.

Maybe it's because I'm a foreigner, but I'd need some explaining of that one.

Was the fire in issue in this story a myth?

Perhaps you imagine that someone thinks that no such incidents would occur if only a Clinton were in power. I think I can assure you that no one expects the effects of years ... decades, generations ... of the inculcation of evil into human beings -- whose "nature", really, simply is not evil -- to simply disappear in the event of that happening. Really.

But the inculcation does have to stop sometime if the effects are ever to go away. And Bush is obviously the chief inculcator these days.

People like Bush in public life make their warped theology seem normal.

And it's nothing at all like the burning of black churches (which wasn't a myth, just media hype). Clinton wasn't leaving subtle encouragement to racists.

In my Methodist church was on reconciliation and whether the Bible says that foreigners and eunuchs cannot belong to the church unto the 10 generation or whether the church is open to all.

Three guesses about the conclusion of THAT one...

Xtian Terrorists versus Xtian Terrorists.

http://www.washblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=1517

A small fire Saturday damaged a church in this Shenandoah Valley community and anti-gay graffiti was found on the outside of the church.

The exterior of St. John's Reformed United Church of Christ also included a message that United Church of Christ members were sinners.

The United Church of Christ endorsed a resolution July 4 endorsing same-sex marriage. The resolution was not binding on the denomination's 1.3 million members.

A lifetime member of the Middlebrook congregation, Jerry Shultz, discovered the graffiti Saturday morning when he stopped by to mow the grass. He found a small fire within the sanctuary.