LGBTQ-Supportive Texas Church Firebombed After Right-Wing YouTube Video
The video's makers deny any connection to the attack, and police haven't established one, but the investigation continues.
July 27, 2023
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The video's makers deny any connection to the attack, and police haven't established one, but the investigation continues.
An out-of-work truck driver accused of opening fire at a Unitarian church, killing two people, left behind a note suggesting that he targeted the congregation out of hatred for its liberal policies, including its acceptance of gays, authorities said Monday. A four-page letter found in Jim D. Adkisson's small SUV indicated he intentionally targeted the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church because, the police chief said, ''he hated the liberal movement'' and was upset with ''liberals in general as well as gays.''
It doesn't matter if you're gay or straight, you can't get legally married at Lyndale United Church of Christ. The small, liberal church in south Minneapolis was the first of several Twin Cities congregations last year to stop performing civil marriage ceremonies as long as same-sex marriage is illegal. These churches and a handful of others around the country that took the same step will still hold a religious ceremony to bless the unions of straight and gay couples -- but straight couples must go separately to a judge or justice of the peace for the marriage license.