Joe.My.God. LGBT News
A few days ago Pastor Tim Remington was shot the day after speaking at a Ted Cruz rally in Idaho. The 30 year-old shooter, Kyle Odom, then fled to Washington DC where the Secret Service apprehended him last night as he was throwing flash drives and other items over the White House fence. CNN reports:
A Facebook post attributed to the suspect by the Spokane Spokesman-Review newspaper provided an insight into his thinking. In it, he says the world is ruled by “an ancient civilization from Mars,” describing Remington as “one of them.” He says he has no time to share his story but will do so in future. “Pastor Tim was one of them, and he was the reason my life was ruined,” the Facebook post connected to Odom said. “I will be sharing my story with as many people as possible.” Odom had sent a letter to his parents along with a flash drive containing multiple electronic documents, authorities said. Some media members also received copies of the letter and similar flash drives.
Here’s how Tony Perkins reacted for BarbWire:
Like the rest of the country, we were stunned and saddened to hear about the shooting of Pastor Tim Remington in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The beloved church leader, who was known throughout the community for his outreach to the addicted and incarcerated, was gunned down at church a day after opening a Ted Cruz rally with prayer.
Although police have no idea if the two events are connected, the circumstances are certainly suspicious. Despite taking over six shots to the head, lung, hip, and shoulder, Pastor Remington’s survival is the stuff of miracles, doctors say. With bullets stopping short of the brain and spinal cord, the father of four is expected to make a full recovery.
While his family and congregation celebrate the good prognosis, disturbing questions still linger. Coeur d’Alene had already grown increasingly hostile toward Christians, as we know from Donald and Evelyn Knapp, a husband-and-wife pastor team that ran a wedding chapel called The Hitching Post. After declining to marry a same-sex couple, Idaho city officials had warned that the decision could send them straight to jail and/or bury them in debilitating fines.
Obviously, the environment toward Christians and pastors preaching the Gospel has made a turn for the worst in the small northern town. How can it not when you have the government ordering believers to participate in things that violate their faith? Whatever the shooter’s motivations, until the policies change, tensions like these will not.
Right Wing Watch points out that The Hitching Post is actually exempt from those evil pro-sodomite laws that totally make people go around shooting pastors in the back for being Martians.
RELATED: Below is the list of other “noteworthy Martians” that Odom was trying to warn everybody about. His full manifesto is here.