Vandals Desecrate Church With Homophobic Graffiti

[left-of-center2012]

Wedgewood Church in Charlotte, North Carolina isn’t shy about its progressive beliefs. Its website includes a banner that reads “Wedgewood — A Liberal Church,” the congregation actively opposed North Carolina’s ban on same-sex marriage, and the community lists respecting LGBT people, members of other religions, and atheists as a “core beliefs.”

So it wasn’t all that surprising when leaders added the phrase “LGBT Equality” to the church sign earlier this month.

But on August 20, parishioners woke to find their church emblazoned with a very different message: Hastily-applied spray paint obscured the sign’s call for inclusivity, and the sanctuary door was marred with large, black letters that read, “Fags are Pedos.”

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/08/28/3696667/lgbt-affirming-church-responds-to-hate-with-love/

[Betty Karlson]

1. When black churches are the target of mass-murders,

is it any surprise to find other forms of desacration happening to the houses of worship of fellow minorities?