The Anglican Catholic Church has removed a Grand Rapids priest for making an alleged Nazi salute.

Calvin Robinson, priest-in-charge at St. Paul’s Anglican Catholic Church, was defrocked Thursday, Jan. 29, after church leadership learned he’d made the controversial salute to a crowd at the National Pro-Life Summit on Jan. 25 in Washington, D.C.

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    So this is going to be the next ‘Lets go Brandon’ type dog whistle. People are going to say ‘my heart goes out to you’ with a smirk and a wink, aren’t they.

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      They already are lol, there was that other lady who did that exact thing

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    As someone who used to live in Grand Rapids, MI, I’m not surprised at all. West Michigan is a place of polar opposites: Both progressive in pockets, but also deeply bible-belty. You can’t drive more than a mile without passing at least a half dozen churches.

    Also, it’s where Betsy Devos’ company and one of the largest for-profit charter school organizations in the country is based.

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      You’re drawing a line between progressives and catholics, but the catholics just defrocked a nazi.

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        As someone who grew up in a Catholic environment, I’m amazed that many Americans look upon highly on Catholics. It’s just as bad as any religious groups, I assure you. History is repeating (or rhyming again depending on your pov) of several ultraconservative Catholic clergies being far right sympathisers. Just before World War 2, there was a Nazi sympathising American Catholic priest who regularly broadcast on the radio berating Franklin Roosevelt and his policies (his radio station was shut down after the US entered the war). The Vatican has also been criticised by many for being quiet on the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis. Although, on the one hand, many parish did shelter Jews and called out the Nazis, but many Catholics were fans of Hitler and his party.

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          Huh? A priest did a nazi solute and was exiled for it. Refusing to give them credit for doing the right thing just makes you look bad. This is Lemmy, everyone here knows how bad the church can be.

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        They’re just death-like symptoms. It’s because he’s autistic and it’s a hate crime to investigate further.

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      because elon can sue anyone into oblivion with a flick of his eyebrows

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      Because they’ve only talked about camps, they haven’t actually started them yet.

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        You don’t think the Guantanamo expansion is already underway? I mean yeah, logistics, but I’m sure this was well planned before it was announced. I wouldn’t be surprised if construction was already underway.

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      Seriously, we’ve found an even limper phrasing than “alleged Nazi salute.”

      He threw a fuckin’ seig heil, twice, and assholes still sputter and scoff like it’s a surprise.

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    On the bright side, it’s goes to show you the act of doing a Nazi salute is unacceptable, and it should be for Elon, too.

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    So many people are going to face consequences for doing what Elon did, and Elon isn’t going to be one of them.

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        Catholic Church is reasonably based.

        My fellow parishioners however are closer to the asshole priest than Church level officials unfortunately .

        Pope Francis is an ally we need for these times.

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      Is that where the Michigan Nazis are? I don’t know anything about Michigan.

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        Kent County is in the northern part of the lower peninsula. The most well known city in the area is Grand Rapids, home of the DeVos family (Amway, Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos). In more recent history they have usually been right leaning, and the sheriff’s office had been in the news for not the greatest reasons.

        That’s what I know and colors my perception. I’m honestly surprised that Harris won that county, so maybe there is a culture shift up there.

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        There are hate and white supremacist groups scattered all over the state, more so as you move further from Detroit and Lansing as the major metropolitan areas. If there was a bigotry capital though I’d put my money on Howell.

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      Technically he’s British. He’s from Nottingham.

      He’s just drawn to places where being a throbber is considered ok.

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        So he’s an immigrant, aligning himself with the immigrant-hating Trump fascists. How stupid exactly is he? I guess he thinks they’d never “deport” him to a camp because he’s one of the good ones.

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      Yes I was not expecting that. Especially with the surprising number of nutjobs on that side of the state.

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    I guess kudos to them for having standards. Honestly the catholics seem to be catching a decent amount of this administrations ire. The pope has already postered against Trump. I don’t find the catholic org to be a good judge of moral character, but better with us than against us.

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    Didn’t take long for the qons to start taking the hood off.

    Not surprised at all. A lot of dipshits think that Worthington’s Law will be extended to them and I bet we see more of this shit. Just like we saw RW assholes throwing racist tantrums at Starbucks workers and so on right after donvict’s “win” in 2016…

    A refresher on Worthington’s Law (and so very many stupid Americans think this way):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbU4VRs2rro

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    This will be viewed as a win by the MAGA crowd.

    "So much for the ‘tolerant Left.’ "

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      Putting your hand up at a 45° angle: Bad
      Putting your hand up a 10 year old’s dress: Fine