(Photo: Provided by Kelsey Hutto)
People who morally disagree about homosexuality or who voted for Trump deserve better.
The same members of the media who don't think it appropriate to speculate as to potential motives for terror attacks perpetrated by someone slamming a vehicle into pedestrians while shouting “Allahu Akbar,” had no problem buying Stang’s heart-wrenching story of Trump-inspired hate speech. Stang, the openly gay church organist, was the perfect victimized hero for driving a conservative bigotry narrative. USA TODAY’s own headline screamed, “Churches vandalized with Trump-inspired slurs.”
And then just days ago, Stang was arrested for criminal mischief after admitting he did the whole thing himself. He spray-painted his own church that morning to frame people he doesn’t like.
Yes, in yet another false flag hoax, pro-LGBT, anti-Trump liberals resort to despicable efforts to impugn the character and demean the moral integrity of anyone who disagrees with them.
As the Washington Post reported at the time of the incident, the church’s minister Kelsey Hutto played the role of martyr: “There were conversations about trying to cover everything up, but in the end, we decided that we’re proud. We’re proud of being targeted for the reason that we were targeted for, at least in which we think we were targeted for, which is being inclusive.”
As it turns out, St. David’s own organist targeted them because he apparently hates people who voted for Trump and wanted to smear them. That’s not a reflection on Trump supporters. It’s a reflection on Stang and it’s a reflection on the moral lessons either not being taught or not being heeded in the supposedly loving and tolerant St. David’s church. For all the talk about inclusion, this episode depicts in pretty vivid colors that churches like St. David’s is inclusive only to those who think the same.
Keep in mind the fake Nazi graffiti in Bean Blossom was just one of many examples of supposed pro-Trump hate that was actually committed by anti-Trump people. And unsurprisingly, left-wing groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center that absurdly pretend to be the authority on this issue, refuse to correct the record or acknowledge the deception.
Thankfully for his part, Stang seems apologetic: "I'm very sad to have created more hate in a world that already has too much hate … The congregation doesn't deserve it, the emotional turmoil I put them through."
That’s true, but people who morally disagree with Stang and his church on homosexuality or on the decision to vote for Trump didn’t deserve it either.
But they didn’t receive any apology. And that fact alone leaves the impression that while I hope he is sincerely apologetic about his conduct, there are serious doubts as to whether a lesson has been learned. Not everyone who disagrees with the left’s agenda on immigration or sexuality are Nazis. Attempting to defame them as such by creating hoax hate crimes doesn’t end up helping your cause or America’s cause.
It embarrasses and undermines them. All of us have to do and to expect far better.
Heck is a speaker, author and teacher. Email him at peter@peterheck.com [Source]
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