A right-wing priest has been defrocked after mimicking Elon Musk’s controversial salute while addressing a pro-life convention.
Father Calvin Robinson, 39, spoke at the National Pro-Life Summit in Washington D.C. last weekend where he claimed that the U.S. is the “only country fighting for life”.
Robinson concluded his speech by thumping his chest and raising his right hand to the sky. “My heart goes out to you,” he said with a wry smile as he exited the stage.
The priest’s actions – and remarks – appeared to emulate those made by Musk who, at Donald Trump’s post-inauguration rally on January 20, beat his chest and shot his right hand – twice – uttering the same phrase. Musk denies his gesture was a Sieg Heil, or had Nazi connotations.
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Robinson, from Nottinghamshire in England, belonged to the UK Anglican Catholic Church – before he was defrocked and had his license revoked.
“Mr. Robinson had been warned that online trolling and other such actions (whether in service of the left or right) are incompatible with a priestly vocation and was told to desist,” the church wrote in a notice on its website on Wednesday.
“Clearly, he has not, and as such, his license in this Church has been revoked. He is no longer serving as a priest in the ACC.”
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Robinson has been colloquially branded Britain’s conspiracy theorist cleric.
After studying theology at St Stephen’s House in Oxford, he hoped to become a deacon for the Church of England but his application was unsuccessful. He continues to trash the church as being weak, and cowardly.
Robinson become a firm fixture in the UK’s far-right movement and bills himself online as a lead spokesperson for the right-wing populist party UKIP, which was formerly led by Trump loyalist and Reform U.K. leader, Nigel Farage.
Robinson, who describes his background as “half Afro-Caribbean and half English”, previously derided the Black Lives Matter movement as “clearly a con”.
On his Substack, Robinson condemned same-sex marriage as “sacramental sodomy,” urging homosexuals to “repent!”
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Robinson is friends with incarcerated far-right agitator and founder of the now-defunct English Defence League, Tommy Robinson, whom he describes as “a patriot, persecuted for being a working-class hero”.
Father Ted has been on my back burner for so long, I need to get to it. I loved vicar of dibley, and it feels similar
Well jump to it - it’s an order of magnitude better than the Vicar of Dibley (and I say that as a fan of both).
A right-wing priest has been defrocked after mimicking Elon Musk’s controversial salute while addressing a pro-life convention.
Robinson concluded his speech by thumping his chest and raising his right hand to the sky. “My heart goes out to you,” he said with a wry smile as he exited the stage.
JFC “Elon Musk’s controversial salute”?? JUST SAY IT ALREADY.
“. . . with a wry smile” yeah they’re all in on it. This needs to be stopped now.
Nazi… priests fuck off!
Priest lives don’t matter.
Make Anglican Catholicism Great Again - by leaving.
So he was a member of a sect that was a break-away of a break-away. Now he gets to form a new sect to the third degree.
Splitters!
It’s funny when all these poor people doing “awkward hand gestures” keep getting fired, yet the rich one who did it is still around.
Who fires the owner of a company? Who can afford to sue you for decades straight?
Here we see a giant piece of shit.
I’m immensely relieved he was actually defrocked and not just given a slap on the wrist.
I sense a right wing grift career in his future.
He’ll say he’s been cancelled for being Christian, or something, too.
Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, a working class hero? I wonder why he changed his name to Tommy Robinson?
It musk just be a misinterpretation 😵💫
I salute your effort, but not like that.
Haha. Yes niiiiice aaaaand sloooooow.
Robinson, the premier surname for all right-wing asshats.
This poor man thinks US administration would consider him “one of the ‘good’ ones.”
why do they all have that slack jaw?
It’s the weight of the chinstrap beard pulling it down.
What a moron lol
Irony is dead
Seems to be fully functioning in regards to this whackjob.
