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The Washington Blade is reporting this morning that the FBI is continuing to investigate the arson attack at St. John’s Reformed United Church of Christ. The church was set on fire and anti-gay graffiti painted on the walls shortly after the General Synod of the United Church of Christ voted to endorse gay marriage.
“The writing on the wall, literally, tells the story,” (Michael) Foster said, “This was a politically motivated attack because of the gay issue, and the FBI is going to investigate it.”
Meanwhile, a neo-Nazi group is urging their followers to target gay friendly churches.
After the Middlebrook attack, the News Virginian, a newspaper in Waynesboro, Va., published a story about the responses of three white supremacist groups to the arson.
In that story, Bill White, a Virginia-based spokesperson for the National Socialist Movement, also known as the American Nazi Party, condemned the arson but said that he understood how the actions of the United Church of Christ could provoke such a reaction.
White told the Blade that he believes homosexuality is a mental illness, and that the UCC is a “heretic” church. “Their encouragement of homosexuality is simply a modern extension of their 200-plus-year history of anti-social, anti-white and anti-Southern activities,” White said…..
White told the Blade that his group is discussing “targeting pro-homosexual events being organized by local ‘gay’ churches.” He went on to name the Metropolitan Community Church of the Blue Ridge in Roanoke as a specific target of his group’s efforts, which he said included distributing messages on leaflets and through direct mail.
Click here to read the full article (which includes some quotes from me as well).
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that monitors hate groups in the United States, reports that the National Socialist Party may have as many as “45 units operating in 29 states.” They apparently target many of their recruiting activities toward children and teenagers. You can read the SPLC report on the National Socialist Party by clicking here.
This Nazi group also has their own web site where you can see for yourself just how evil this group is.
Update: Bill White, the Nazi spokesperson mentioned in this post, tried to leave a comment on this site expressing his views on Jews and homosexuals. I did not allow the comment to be be posted. He has since linked this post to a Nazi discussion board. If you're part of this group don't waste your time trying to leave comments here. Comments are moderated and bigoted remarks will not be posted.
Update: Our Nazi friends are now sending dozens of spam trackbacks to this post and so I've stopped accepting them for this article. But feel free to link away anyway.
