{"id":1751390,"date":"2022-11-25T11:47:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T16:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1751390"},"modified":"2022-11-25T11:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T16:47:59","slug":"blood-is-on-your-hands-christian-nonprofit-vandalized-after-club-q-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blood-is-on-your-hands-christian-nonprofit-vandalized-after-club-q-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blood Is On Your Hands\u2019: Christian Nonprofit Vandalized After Club Q Shooting"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fblood-is-on-your-hands-christian-nonprofit-vandalized-after-club-q-shooting%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=1751390&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--><p>The headquarters of Focus on the Family, a <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/christianity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian<\/a> parachurch organization, was <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vandalized<\/a>\u00a0Thursday following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mass-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mass shooting<\/a> at a gay nightclub in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>The phrases \u201cTheir blood is on your hands\u201d and \u201cfive lives taken\u201d appeared on a sign displaying the Focus on the Family logo in an apparent attempt to link the group for the shooting which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-host-guest-struggle-with-club-q-shooters-non-binary-identity-thats-a-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed the lives<\/a> of five people and resulted in 25 injuries. Law enforcement officials have no information about a suspect in the act of vandalism, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/gazette.com\/news\/crime\/focus-on-the-family-sign-vandalized-police-say\/article_28d46af4-6c34-11ed-b735-433811c4dccc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the Colorado Springs Gazette.<\/p>\n<p>Focus on the Family exists to share the gospel \u201cwith as many people as possible by nurturing and affirming the God-ordained institution of the family and proclaiming biblical truths worldwide,\u201d according to the organization\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focusonthefamily.com\/about\/foundational-values\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>. Club Q is an \u201cadult-oriented gay and lesbian nightclub hosting theme nights\u201d such as drag shows. Both organizations are located in Colorado Springs, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>In the days after the shooting, members of the legacy media linked the carnage with conservative backlash against drag shows for children, which have occurred in a number of gay bars across the country over the past several months. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/colorado-shooter-identifies-as-non-binary-uses-they-them-pronouns-court-documents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Court documents<\/a> noted that the alleged shooter, who will not be named in accordance with Daily Wire policy about depriving mass murderers of the notoriety they often desire, identifies as \u201cnonbinary\u201d and uses \u201cthey\/them\u201d pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>During one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-host-guest-struggle-with-club-q-shooters-non-binary-identity-thats-a-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">viral moment<\/a>, a guest on CNN insisted that the suspect cannot truly be \u201cnonbinary,\u201d asserting that \u201cthey\u2019re just saying that because they want to have the easy way out on this.\u201d The guest, a biological male who claims identity as a transgender female, added that \u201cit was obvious with the mugshot, that\u2019s a man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daily Wire host Matt Walsh <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshBlog\/status\/1595408577161830401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1595408577161830401%7Ctwgr%5E3b084cda259100b943cde25cb395454193dce42e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fcnn-host-guest-struggle-with-club-q-shooters-non-binary-identity-thats-a-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a> the hypocrisy of radical gender theory proponents denying the professed identity of the shooter. \u201cYou set a precedent here and we will hold you to it. You have to respect his identity,\u201d he contended. \u201cI don\u2019t. You do. These are your rules. Now take your medicine and shut up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suspect reportedly changed his name six years ago to disassociate from his family. The suspect\u2019s father was a mixed martial arts fighter and pornography performer with a long criminal history, including convictions for battery against the alleged shooter\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>The vandalism of Focus on the Family, which opposes abortion, same-sex marriage, and the broader LGBTQ movement, occurs in the wake of several crisis pregnancy centers enduring a string of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/in-the-wake-of-roe-v-wade-attacks-on-churches-pregnancy-centers-escalate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">property crimes<\/a> following the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. While some of the nonprofits were spray-painted with slogans such as \u201cbans off our bodies\u201d and \u201cif abortions aren\u2019t safe, neither are you,\u201d others were set ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice has received criticism for failing to prosecute the crimes even as they charge pro-life activists with federal crimes. The agency recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-details-in-the-biden-doj-targeting-of-pro-life-activist-father-of-seven-mark-houck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested<\/a> Roman Catholic activist Mark Houck, who allegedly pushed an abortion clinic escort while protecting his 12-year-old son in an incident that was dismissed last year by a federal court in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headquarters of Focus on the Family, a Christian parachurch organization, was vandalized\u00a0Thursday following a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado. The phrases \u201cTheir blood is on your hands\u201d and \u201cfive lives taken\u201d appeared on a sign displaying the Focus on the Family logo in an apparent attempt to link the group for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1522117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1751390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751390","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1522117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}