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.
Huh, so when a brown guy does it, it turns out it was a Nazi salute after all.
I’m blocked from reading this story but I read this one and am confused: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/calvin-robinson-priest-defrocked-salute-b2689335.html is this man in the UK or US?
“Robinson was a well-known conservative commentator and priest in the U.K. before joining St. Paul’s in September 2024. The church’s website still has him listed as priest-in-charge”
Thank you very much. No idea why I couldn’t access the article. Can we send him back?
Nice to see some journalist calling a Nazi salute a Nazi salute.
good ol catholic church.
nazi salute: bad.
raping children: good.
Putting your hand up at a 45° angle: Bad
Putting your hand up a 10 year old’s dress: Fine
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.
You’re drawing a line between progressives and catholics, but the catholics just defrocked a nazi.
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.
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.
If you’re not aware, there are plenty of Catholic clergies who are known to be ultra conservative and Trump supporters. There are rumours around that they dislike Pope Francis and are planning to usurp him if given the chance. If it is so happens that the current leader is also ultraconservative, then they will turn a blind eye to that priest in the article.
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.
Looks like it’s already starting…
https://jalopnik.com/cybertruck-owners-say-they-are-worried-about-hate-crime-1851750336
That makes sense considering how stupid you have to be to buy one of those. Owners of other models get to claim they didn’t know Elon was a POS when they bought it, but it was undeniable before pre-orders for that thing were available
holy fuck.
“not a cult” tho.
They already are lol, there was that other lady who did that exact thing
Surprisingly good response from the church.
Yes I was not expecting that. Especially with the surprising number of nutjobs on that side of the state.
It’s almost like all these people are fucking around and finding out. Remember, we are the plebes not billionaries.
Well done to the church for sticking to the principle that Nazi salutes will not be tolerated. But apparently it’s an “Elon Musk salute” - you know, that one Elon Musk invented all on his own, just like the electric cars, space rockets and PayPal.
why do we keep saying it’s nazi-like? If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
Because they’ve only talked about camps, they haven’t actually started them yet.
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.
because elon can sue anyone into oblivion with a flick of his eyebrows
Golly-gee, I sure hope Elon doesn’t get hit by a bullet-shaped object.
They’re just death-like symptoms. It’s because he’s autistic and it’s a hate crime to investigate further.
So many people are going to face consequences for doing what Elon did, and Elon isn’t going to be one of them.
Glad to see at lest someone is though!
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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There should be a separation of church and state when the state is doing their 1930’s Germany impression.
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.
This was the Anglican Catholic church, not the Vatican Catholic church.
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A temporary ally at least but good while it lasts.
Of course it’s a fucking Continuing Anglican Church. -_-
Hey but props to them for their swift action.
That’s fair. I just don’t find it very shocking that that is the tradition he felt safe doing that from within.
This will be viewed as a win by the MAGA crowd.
"So much for the ‘tolerant Left.’ "
