{"id":1942482,"date":"2023-06-02T03:16:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T07:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attacks-on-catholic-churches-rise-hate-crime-charges-do-not\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T03:18:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T07:18:57","slug":"attacks-on-catholic-churches-rise-hate-crime-charges-do-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attacks-on-catholic-churches-rise-hate-crime-charges-do-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic church attacks increase, no hate crime charges filed."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fattacks-on-catholic-churches-rise-hate-crime-charges-do-not%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=1942482&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--><h2>Attacks on Catholic Churches and Organizations<\/h2>\n<p>Recent years have seen a rise in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-hasnt-conducted-a-single-strike-against-isis-k-since-leaving-afghanistan\/\" title=\"U.S. Hasn\u2019t Conducted a Single Strike Against ISIS-K Since Leaving Afghanistan\">high-profile attacks<\/a> on Catholic churches and organizations, with advocates frustrated by the lack of consequences for those who target Catholics compared to those who target other religions or minority groups.<\/p>\n<h3>Examples of Attacks<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In San Francisco, five people who desecrated a statue of a saint on Catholic church grounds had their charges downgraded from felonies to misdemeanors.<\/li>\n<li>In Washington state, a transgender person who defaced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sickening-polish-pastor-who-threw-gestapo-calgary-police-from-church-gets-another-visit-kicks-them-out-again\/\" title=\"\u2018Sickening\u2019: Polish Pastor Who Threw \u2018Gestapo\u2019 Calgary Police From Church Gets Another Visit, Kicks Them Out Again\">church property<\/a> and assaulted a church employee was recommended no jail time by the Justice Department.<\/li>\n<li>In Washington, D.C., a man who destroyed the statues of three saints at a Catholic school pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor that allowed him to avoid serving his prison sentence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These attacks started with the destruction of church property during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and have since turned toward attacks motivated by the Supreme Court\u2019s 2022 abortion ruling and the defacement of churches in the name of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zachary-marschall-meloni-warns-italians-against-becoming-perfect-consumer-slaves-americans-are-already-there\/\" title=\"Zachary Marschall: Meloni Warns Italians Against Becoming \"Perfect Consumer Slaves.\" Americans Are Already There\">transgender rights movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Consequences for Perpetrators<\/h3>\n<p>Critics argue that suspects caught for such illegal activity often escape the more severe consequences that apply to crimes of hate. Instead, suspects sometimes face only low-level vandalism or theft charges that don\u2019t land them behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI reported that anti-Catholic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-in-nyc-arrested-for-a-string-of-attacks-on-women\/\" title=\"Man in NYC arrested for a string of attacks on women\">hate crimes<\/a> made up 6.1% of all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attacks-on-catholic-churches-rise-hate-crime-charges-do-not\/\" title=\"Catholic church attacks increase, no hate crime charges filed.\">religion-related hate crimes<\/a> in 2021, which means the FBI recorded roughly 95 anti-Catholic incidents that year. The bureau said this was a decrease from 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Catholic groups say the attacks started to increase in 2020 and have intensified dramatically in 2022, particularly in the wake of the May 2022 leak that revealed how the Supreme Court was planning to overturn Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<h3>Advocates Call for Action<\/h3>\n<p>Tommy Valentine, director of the Catholic Accountability Project at CatholicVote, said police manage to track down a suspect in only about a quarter of attacks. He believes police departments need resources from the federal government to combat clear instances of hate crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Catholic groups argue that the treatment of perpetrators who target Catholic churches and organizations differs from those who target other religious sites. For example, a Massachusetts man who intentionally set fire to a Catholic church was sentenced to roughly three years in prison, while a man who intentionally set fire to a synagogue in Texas faces up to 20 years in prison for the same crime.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates are calling for more severe consequences for those who target Catholic churches and organizations, arguing that the current lack of consequences is unacceptable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In San Francisco, five people who vandalized a saint statue on Catholic church grounds had their charges reduced from felonies to misdemeanors. Meanwhile, in Washington state, the Justice Department suggested no jail time for a transgender person who defaced church property and assaulted a church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1942483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[6361,6011,4035,5643,7204,10297,6208,5476],"class_list":["post-1942482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-attacks","tag-catholic","tag-charges","tag-church","tag-crime","tag-filed","tag-hate","tag-increase"],"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\/1942482","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1942483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}