{"id":311822,"date":"2024-05-07T06:46:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=311822"},"modified":"2024-05-06T11:20:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T16:20:53","slug":"catholic-church-portland-vandalized-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/catholic-church-portland-vandalized-graffiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic church in Portland vandalized with pro-abortion graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>St. Patrick&#8217;s, the oldest Catholic church in the Portland area in Oregon, was covered in pro-abortion graffiti when parishioners arrived for Mass on the morning of Sunday, April 28th. This is the second time the church has been vandalized.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Andy Ng\u00f4 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1784631696286962057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> photos of the vandalism, and noted that the front door of the church is still stained with bleach from a previous vandalism attack. Spray-painted on the door and the concrete were the words &#8220;F*** you, my body my choice.&#8221; The photos had been sent to Ng\u00f4 by an anonymous source.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Multiple Christian houses of worship have been attacked in Portland since 2020 by far-left extremists but the left-wing leadership, DA and law enforcement do not treat them as bias crimes,&#8221; he wrote, and added in a reply to another tweet, &#8220;There are no limitations or restrictions on abortion in Oregon law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: Those attending mass this morning at St. Patrick\u2019s Church in northwest Portland, Ore. arrived to find it had been vandalized again with a pro-abortion message. (The door is still stain-bleached of a removed hateful message.) Multiple Christian houses of worship have\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YqPlP4LMOW\">pic.twitter.com\/YqPlP4LMOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andy Ng\u00f4 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1784631696286962057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Catholic Vote <a href=\"https:\/\/catholicvote.org\/portland-catholic-church-vandalized-with-explicit-pro-abortion-messages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that someone set fire to the church in 2021, and graffitied the sidewalk as well. A second attack also took place in 2021, when the church&#8217;s doors were vandalized. Still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bob.boulos\/posts\/10166526388360523\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another instance<\/a> of pro-abortion vandalism took place in 2022, after the <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization<\/em> ruling by the Supreme Court overturned <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dead-baby-found-florida-university-garbage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Deceased newborn found in Florida university garbage after students heard a baby\u2019s cry<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Heartbreaking to see this kind of hate in people\u2019s hearts,&#8221; one person <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalCapitalist\/status\/1784633777932706138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied<\/a>. &#8220;Abortion is legally protected in Oregon. Not sure about all the hate in Portland. Ironically, the church will forgive this person for their sins of destroying their place of worship.&#8221; Another person <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikerussellatl\/status\/1784657826691879058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>, &#8220;If something like this was done to an abortion clinic it would [be] declared domestic terrorism or a RICO violation. This act should be treated the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to CatholicVote, this is the <strong>252nd<\/strong> attack on a Catholic church since May of 2022, when the draft decision of <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization<\/em> was leaked. There has likewise been a massive increase in abortion-related violence since then, though it has been overwhelmingly directed towards the pro-life movement; FBI Director <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fbi-70-threats-violence-pro-lifers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Wray<\/a>\u00a0confirmed that the majority of violence related to abortion since <em>Dobbs<\/em> has been directed towards pro-lifers and not abortionists or abortion facilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/actnow.io\/ARQQhk1\"><b><i>The DOJ put a pro-life grandmother in jail for protesting the killing of preborn children. Please take 30-seconds to TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE DOJ FROM TARGETING PRO-LIFE AMERICANS.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Patrick&#8217;s, the oldest Catholic church in the Portland area in Oregon, was covered in pro-abortion graffiti when parishioners arrived for Mass on the morning of Sunday, April 28th. This is the second time the church has been vandalized. 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