{"id":1491942,"date":"2022-05-25T15:31:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T19:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1491942"},"modified":"2022-05-25T15:31:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T19:31:14","slug":"anarchists-take-credit-for-vandalizing-four-pro-life-churches-in-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anarchists-take-credit-for-vandalizing-four-pro-life-churches-in-washington-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Anarchists Take Credit for Vandalizing Four Pro-Life Churches in Washington State"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanarchists-take-credit-for-vandalizing-four-pro-life-churches-in-washington-state%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1491942&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Self-described anarchists took credit for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pugetsoundanarchists.org\/olympia-attack-on-4-anti-abortion-churches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vandalizing four pro-life churches<\/a> in Olympia, Wash., last weekend, referring to the houses of worship as &#8220;patriarchal sex abuse cults&#8221; that perpetuate the &#8220;violence of forced birth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pugetsoundanarchists.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Puget Sound Anarchists<\/a>, a website that publishes writings from &#8220;anarchists and anti-authoritarians in the Pacific Northwest,&#8221; shared an anonymous post declaring a Mormon church, two evangelical churches, and a Catholic church had been given &#8220;facelifts&#8221; Sunday morning before services for their &#8220;ties to anti-abortion \u2018crisis pregnancy centers.'&#8221; The churches, according to the anarchists, &#8220;are terrified of people exercising bodily autonomy\u2014whether aborting unwanted pregnancies or taking gender-affirming hormones\/surgery or fucking whomever we want\u2014because they need the rigid hierarchy of the family as the basic unit of control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We dumped red paint over the entryways and left messages of \u2018If abortions aren&#8217;t safe, then neither are you,&#8217; \u2018Abort the church,&#8217; and \u2018God loves abortion,'&#8221; the anarchists said. &#8220;We are not appealing to state power for an end to patriarchal violence, but threatening: \u2018If abortions aren&#8217;t safe, then neither are you.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The attack comes as churches, pro-life advocates, and some Supreme Court justices face heightened threats after a leaked decision revealed the Court is expected to overturn <em>Roe<\/em> v.\u00a0<em>Wade<\/em> next month. Arsonists <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/mostly-peaceful-pro-abortion-extremists-firebomb-pro-life-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">firebombed a pro-life advocacy group&#8217;s office<\/a> in Wisconsin days after, spray-painting, &#8220;If abortions aren&#8217;t safe, then you aren&#8217;t either&#8221; on its fa\u00e7ade. A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/read-the-dhs-memo-on-left-wing-threats-against-judges-and-priests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Homeland Security memo<\/a> that surfaced last week showed the agency is readying for potential violence in the wake of the decision.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympia anarchists said even though abortion will remain legal in Washington if <em>Roe<\/em> is overturned, &#8220;there are still local enemies who are doing everything in their power to make it as difficult and inaccessible as possible.&#8221; They said such &#8220;enemies are vulnerable and easy to find,&#8221; before sharing the address of a crisis pregnancy center and listing Olympia businesses that have donated to it. Abortion has been legal in Washington State since 1970.<\/p>\n<p>The anarchists described crisis pregnancy centers, which typically provide free pre- and post-natal care to young mothers, as &#8220;religious fake clinics that manipulate mostly poor people into having &#038; keeping children they don&#8217;t want or aren&#8217;t ready for and marrying whomever impregnated them whether or not that relationship is healthy or safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crisis pregnancy centers are exploitative and serve the aims of upholding the patriarchal family, a primary site of violence against women, queers, and children,&#8221; they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The anarchists signed their missive &#8220;Jane&#8217;s Revenge&#8221;\u2014the same name used by the vandals who threw a Molotov cocktail into the pro-life office in Wisconsin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/may\/11\/police-investigate-claim-janes-revenge-attacked-wi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> the <em>Washington Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Puget Sound Anarchists has posted other anonymous submissions admitting to crimes of property destruction. In July 2021, Portland vandals shared pictures of an attack they launched on police squad cars, smashing a dozen cruisers&#8217; windows, windshields, lights, and side-view mirrors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We call on all abolitionists to take the defunding and disarming of the pigs into their own hands,&#8221; the submitters <a href=\"https:\/\/pugetsoundanarchists.org\/portland-cop-cars-vandalized-in-response-to-ppbs-murder-on-6-24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;Be bold! Sabotage is fun!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A legal notice on Puget Sound Anarchists states, &#8220;We do not condone or promote illegal, violent, and unlawful behavior or actions, or acts of intimidation against individuals or groups.&#8221; On its contact page, the editors say they do not respond to media requests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-described anarchists took credit for\u00a0vandalizing four pro-life churches in Olympia, Wash., last weekend, referring to the houses of worship as &#8220;patriarchal sex abuse cults&#8221; that perpetuate the &#8220;violence of forced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}