A sign outside a Focus on the Family facility in Colorado Springs, Colo., was vandalized on Thanksgiving Day, just days after a mass shooting at an LGBTQ bar left five dead and 17 injured.
On the morning of November 24, officials reported graffiti at the facility that read: “Their blood is on your hands, five lives taken.” A piece of metal was left propped up against the large stone sign, which quoted 2 Corinthians 11:14-15.
A day later, the graffiti message was mostly covered with cardboard and plastic.
A photo of Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Focus on the Family President Jim Daly addressed the vandalism and called on members of the community to love and pray and not spread hate.
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“We recognize that the community is suffering as a result of the reckless and violent actions of a highly disturbed individual. This is a time for prayer, mourning and healing, not vandalism and the spread of hate,” he said, according to FOX 21.
He added: “Focus on the Family is privileged to be one of the many organizations in our city positioned to help and support the needs of individuals and families in distress.”
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A sign at Calvary United Methodist Church, one mile from Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Wednesday, November 23, 2022.
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“The families of the five people killed in the senseless attack on Saturday night are in our prayers. We urge everyone to pray for peace and we also pray for the individual or group responsible for this malicious and unwarranted defacement of the property of our ministry,” Daly said. .
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Some people have criticized Focus on the Family, a global Christian outreach ministry, for being homophobic, as it often differs from the LGBTQ community on issues of sex education and gender ideology, among others.
