I don’t imagine many liberals have much of a problem with this worldwide anti-Christian movement, since we hardly hear anything about this in our liberal media; and since so many liberals demonstrate an open hostility and sometimes abject hatred toward Christianity and Christians in general, and they have been trying to destroy Christianity in many ways for ages. Some liberals in the gay movement liken Christianity to being a Nazi. And we get such comments here quite frequently.
Jail for arsonists
[headline designed for nap-inducement —Joel]
Church blaze inspired by black metal, hatred
By DEAN PRITCHARD, COURT REPORTER
MINNEDOSA—A fire that razed the 105-year-old Minnedosa United Church last winter was a hate crime sparked by a hatred of Christianity and a love of black metal music, a court heard yesterday.
Kelsey Ray Taylor, Deanna Lynn Mathews and Mark Wishart shared an “ideology of desecration” that destroyed a community landmark and rocked the faith of local church members, Crown attorney Jim Ross said at the trio’s sentencing hearing.
“They share an ideology that people of faith are the enemy,” Ross said. “They targeted a church for destruction because it’s a symbol.”
All three pleaded guilty to arson earlier this year.
Judge Krystyna Tarwid called the arson a hate crime and sentenced Taylor, its driving force, to three years in prison. Mathews was sentenced to two years in prison, while Wishart received a sentence of two years less a day in jail. All three sentences were in addition to time already served in custody. Taylor and Mathews have been in custody since their arrest a short time after the Feb. 12 blaze. Wishart was released on bail after spending eight days in jail.
The judge also ordered the three to pay $1.2 million in restitution.
The Minnedosa fire had clear links to a worldwide arson movement inspired by a Norwegian black metal musician, Ross told court.
The church was set ablaze on the birthday of Varg Vikernes, a black metal musician now serving time in prison in Norway for murdering a bandmate and burning several churches.
Vikernes has inspired dozens of copycat church burnings around the world, a list that now includes the Minnedosa United Church, Ross said.
[…] Taylor will be back in Brandon court in August. He is charged with arson for an April 2004 fire that levelled the Brandon Hills United Church and with vandalism to more than 100 tombstones in the Brandon Hills and Roseland cemeteries.
He has also been charged with cemetery vandalism in Lethbridge, Alta.
Thank God for clear-thinking Canadians
Interesting that it was a United church in Canada that was burned down, since the United Church of Canada was a sponsor of EGALE (Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere).
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