Measure passes after over 400 churches, entities targeted with violence over past five years
(The Center Square) – Nearly all U.S. House Democrats voted against a resolution condemning attacks against anti-abortion facilities and churches. The vote came after a report was published showing violence escalated against churches and pro-life groups last year ahead of and after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The House passed the measure 222 to 219 Wednesday mostly along party lines. Three Democrats voted for it: Reps. Vicente Gonzalez of south Texas, Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington.
The resolution “condemns recent attacks of vandalism, violence, and destruction against pro-life facilities, groups and churches” and “calls upon the Biden Administration to use all appropriate law enforcement authorities to uphold public safety and to protect the rights of pro-life facilities, groups, and churches.”
There have been at least 420 hostile acts committed against primarily churches in America over the past five years, according to the report published by the Family Research Council.
The Washington, D.C.-based Christian public policy advocacy organization analyzed publicly available data from January 2018 to September 2022 and reported that it identified at least 420 acts of hostility against American churches in 45 states and the District of Columbia. The greatest number occurred in California and Texas, the two most populous states. None were reported in Delaware, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire and Vermont, according to the report.
Overall, 57 “pro-abortion acts of hostility” against churches were identified, with violence increasing last year from January to September leading up to and after the Supreme Court decision. Concerned by increasing attacks on pregnancy centers and churches, 19 attorneys general last June called on the Department of Justice to investigate.
The FRC report, “Hostility Against Churches Is on the Rise in the United States,” shows a trend of increasing hostility against churches over the past five years that includes arson and arson attempts, assaults, bomb threats, gun-related incidents, among others.
Increased incidents of vandalism, including destruction and defacement of property, ransacking, theft, and destruction of church property were “likely symptomatic of a collapse in societal reverence and respect for houses of worship and religion – in this case, churches and Christianity,” the report states.
“Americans appear increasingly comfortable lashing out against church buildings, pointing to a larger societal problem of marginalizing core Christian beliefs, including those that touch on hot-button political issues related to human dignity and sexuality.”
Many Democrats who opposed the resolution said they did so because it did not also condemn attacks against abortion facilities.
“This resolution fails to acknowledge decades of well-documented violence against reproductive health care providers in this country, and in failing to do so, it fails us all,” Rep. Lizzie Fletcher of Texas said.
Of the attacks on churches and pro-life facilities, there were 342 occurrences of vandalism, 58 arson attacks or attempts, 12 gun-related incidents, 11 bomb threats, and 19 others, including assault, threats, interruption of worship services, among others. Another 20 covered more than one category.
Of the 420 incidents, California had the most with 51, followed by 33 in Texas, 31 in New York and 23 in Florida.
The analysis was published after the FBI reported 240 anti-Christian “hate crimes” had been recorded in its Uniform Crime Reporting Program in 2021, up from 213 in 2020, 217 in 2019 and 172 in 2018.
FBI data was consistent with the FRC findings. In 2018, FRC found 50 acts of hostility committed against churches; from January to September 2022, it found 137.
The report notes that such acts of violence “are a matter of religious freedom. Religious freedom is not maintained by good laws and policy alone: it also relies on cultural support.”
FRC President Tony Perkins has called on the Biden Administration to better protect churches and religious freedom, noting, “the Biden Department of Justice has so far largely ignored these growing attacks on churches and that is creating an environment of lawlessness around the country.”
He added, “Christians must not live in fear. We must not be intimidated; we must continue to stand upon the truth of God and defending the freedom of all to live out their faith free from the fear that they will be subject to a violent attack.”
“Christians must not live in fear. We must not be intimidated; we must continue to stand upon the truth of God and defending the freedom of all to live out their faith free from the fear that they will be subject to a violent attack.”
But this is opposed by the hateful, demonic Democrat Party cult and its disciples as apparent by the Democrats vote in the House of Representatives.
” – Nearly all U.S. House Democrats voted against a resolution condemning attacks against anti-abortion facilities and churches. “
YOU Can bet, had even ONE MOSQUE been targeted, the dems would ALL BE SIGNING UP TO CONDEMN THAT…
YET you can bet, everyone of these dems, will be playing the “christian card”, come next election….
The sanctity of Life—the Giver of Life—and the Sustainer of Life means absolutely nothing to these people. They deserve whatever comes their way.
Just goes to prove that the modern democrat party is the party of death, dissipation and destruction, which follows in just about every policy they promote, and power that they grab. Death follows them like night follows day, like Kamala follows Joe. The are the party of American consumers, who live only in the image of the great consumer himself “the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history,,, the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom – Lucifer”,,,,and lost American paradise for others in the process. Who deadheads a party now unfit to be called Democratic, now ruled by the price of darkness and death, in more ways than even the sane the human mind can grasp. Those who embrace the Consumers can only end up consumed themselves. Only those who embrace their Creator, can provide for an assured created future. One need not believe as a theologian to grasp this meaning, Just trust what you see, and listen to your conscience which secular democrats must first kill to be able to live with their self-chosen insanity.
the disciples of satan democrat party!
Which makes you wonder, WHAT CHURCH would ever still allow a demon-**** INTO THEIR hallowed ground!
I submit that if science could say, with certainty, using state-of-the-art diagnostic technology, that a child would be born LGBTQ, elective abortions would become nearly non-existent. Proof:
Within the last few years, the left has been on a crusade to convince everybody that they must be LGBTQ, especially our children. If a child even so much as hints that they are not their biological gender, the schools swoop in to convince that child that he or she is really the gender they “believe” they are, no questions asked, particularly if those questions are asked by parents. To wit, gender reassignment surgeries are on the rise. This isn’t about understanding, tolerance and acceptance. Rather, it’s about producing an “army” of LGBTQ folks, to bolster their argument that gender is fluid, and we must all be something we’re not.
Circling back to my first statement, I guarantee if a young woman found out her unborn child would be LGBTQ and she didn’t want such a child, and sought out an abortion, the left would fight, tooth and nail, to convince her to keep her child because, to abort that unborn life would be tantamount to denying that child the right to be who they really are.
I dare anyone to tell me I’m wrong.
Thursday, March 12, 2015. Michael F. Haverluck (OneNewsNow.com)
“Joe Biden went on to assure the pro-LGBTQ crowd that even though the Obama administration cannot enforce a thought police, people who stand for their religious convictions are in the process of being wiped out — as the Obama White House’s homosexual agenda continues to proliferate across the nation. Carson and others who ascribe to the biblical view of homosexuality should be eradicated from the planet in the name of “equality” and “tolerance.” “
And this comes from Joe Biden a professed Catholic??
You can bet the left, would LOVE To push THAT angle.. No abortions as its ‘against the LGBTQ gene.