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With Nashville we are getting hammered by the right, but they have their blinders on.

Reverend of Chesterland Church Says Drag Event Will Go On as Planned After Building Was Vandalized Last Weekend
With protests planned, they're wondering: "What can we do to be more secure but without losing our ethos?"
Cleveland Scene Daily
By Mark Oprea
March 28, 2023

The Community Church of Chesterland, one of the venues set to host a drag event in the community on April 1, was vandalized over the weekend, its leader, Rev. Jess Peacock, said.

Peacock, who's been the head pastor at CCC since 2021, told Scene that they believe molotov cocktails were thrown at the church's front-facing steel wall early Saturday morning. Along with damage to outdoor lighting fixtures, Peacock said CCC's front signage was "destroyed with a sledgehammer."

"It was pounded pretty good," Peacock said. "Fortunately, it was raining Friday leading into Saturday, so I take it that helps tamp down the flames. So I guess it could've been a lot worse."

The combined Drag Brunch & Story Hour events, which will be hosted at Peacock's church and at the Element 41 restaurant in Chardon on Saturday, have been targeted for protest by the Proud Boys and other extremist groups and subject to online transphobic outrage.

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"They did this with abortion. They did this with immigration. They attempted to do this with climate change. They did this with the Black Lives Matter movement," McMaster, an LGBTQ activist who organized the Element 41 brunch, told Scene. "And it's the same hate groups with the same hateful message that you see jumping from movement to movement."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene went off the deep end over the Nashville killings but not one word about about the fire bombing of a church.

Reverend of Chesterland Church Says Drag Event Will Go On as Planned After Building Was Vandalized Last Weekend

With protests planned, they're wondering: "What can we do to be more secure but without losing our ethos?"

Cleveland Scene Daily

By Mark Oprea

March 28, 2023

The Community Church of Chesterland, one of the venues set to host a drag event in the community on April 1, was vandalized over the weekend, its leader, Rev. Jess Peacock, said.

Peacock, who's been the head pastor at CCC since 2021, told Scene that they believe molotov cocktails were thrown at the church's front-facing steel wall early Saturday morning. Along with damage to outdoor lighting fixtures, Peacock said CCC's front signage was "destroyed with a sledgehammer."

"It was pounded pretty good," Peacock said. "Fortunately, it was raining Friday leading into Saturday, so I take it that helps tamp down the flames. So I guess it could've been a lot worse."

The combined Drag Brunch & Story Hour events, which will be hosted at Peacock's church and at the Element 41 restaurant in Chardon on Saturday, have been targeted for protest by the Proud Boys and other extremist groups and subject to online transphobic outrage.

[…]

"They did this with abortion. They did this with immigration. They attempted to do this with climate change. They did this with the Black Lives Matter movement," McMaster, an LGBTQ activist who organized the Element 41 brunch, told Scene. "And it's the same hate groups with the same hateful message that you see jumping from movement to movement."

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Member of pro-Nazi group arrested for allegedly firebombing church planning drag event

The Hill

By Nick Robertson

April 1, 2023

A member of the pro-Nazi group White Lives Matter of Ohio was arrested Friday after he allegedly threw molotov cocktails at a church planning to hold a drag event.

Aimenn Penny threw molotov cocktails at the Community Church of Chesterland, outside Cleveland, on March 25, according to investigators. The attack left scorch marks on the church and broke a sign, but did no significant damage.

Penny was charged with arson and possession of a destructive device.

He was a known figure in the White Lives Matter group, which protested a drag event in Ohio earlier this month with swastika flags, shouting slurs and praising Hitler, according to FBI investigators.

But congresswoman Greene doesn’t want to talk about this instead she is blaming it on Testosterone the trans men are taking.

NBC News report that,

Some conservatives including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Fox News host Laura Ingraham suggested hormones like testosterone and medications for mental illness were a factor, despite no public information about whether the shooter was taking such drugs.

Never mind the fire bombing, never mind that it hasn’t been established was actually trans or on hormones, never mind the 132 mass shooting in 2023, never that all the shooters but one was white males.

Never mind that she just indicted half the the world population and didn’t even realize it. By saying that “hormones like testosterone ... were a factor” in the killings she just condemns the male population from owning guns!