{"id":2397045,"date":"2025-01-30T13:09:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-black-pro-israel-priest-canceled-by-own-church-after-trolling-lefties-with-elon-salute\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T13:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:11:50","slug":"watch-black-pro-israel-priest-canceled-by-own-church-after-trolling-lefties-with-elon-salute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-black-pro-israel-priest-canceled-by-own-church-after-trolling-lefties-with-elon-salute\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Black Pro-Israel Priest Canceled by Own Church After Trolling Lefties with Elon Salute"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fwatch-black-pro-israel-priest-canceled-by-own-church-after-trolling-lefties-with-elon-salute%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=2397045&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>Calvin robinson,an Anglican Catholic clergyman in the UK,had his\u2064 clerical license revoked after making \u200da gesture that \u2062some interpreted as a Nazi \u200bsalute \u200cduring a speech\u200c at \u200dthe \u200dNational Pro-Life Summit in\u2064 Washington. \u2064He \u2062mimicked a recent \u2064gesture made by Elon\u200b Musk while expressing support \u2064for the audience, \u200cwhich prompted backlash from the Anglican Catholic Church&#8217;s\u2063 Collage\u200d of Bishops. They characterized his\u2064 action\u2064 as attempting to win favor\u2063 with \u2062far-right elements and warned him\u2062 that such online trolling is incompatible with a priestly \u200dvocation. In response, Robinson argued that the gesture was intended as satire against what\u2064 he perceives as\u200c hysterical reactions\u200c from the left \u2062that \u2062labeled Musk a Nazi. He emphasized that context is key,\u2064 claiming his act was\u200d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nhl-goalie-roasts-woke-climate-pledge-arena-after-electrical-issues-wreak-havoc-on-game-2\/\" title=\"NHL goalie mocks &#039;Climate Pledge Arena&#039; as electrical problems disrupt game.\">light-hearted mockery<\/a> rather than \u200ddisrespect towards the Holocaust. Robinson,a vocal\u2063 supporter of Israel,has called\u200c for a focus on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-toyota-super-bowl-ads-strong-pro-life-message\/\" title=\"WATCH: Toyota Super Bowl Ad\u2019s Strong Pro-Life Message\">pro-life message<\/a> beyond\u200d the controversy surrounding his \u200cactions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Calvin Robinson, a clergyman in the Anglican Catholic Church, had his license in the denomination revoked after mimicking the viral salute made by Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>At a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-trump-holds-first-post-inauguration-rally-in-las-vegas-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"WATCH LIVE: Trump holds first post-inauguration rally in Las Vegas - Washington Examiner\">post-inauguration rally<\/a> last week, Musk gestured from his heart outward to the audience while saying &ldquo;my heart goes out to you,&rdquo; prompting several days of establishment media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tim-walz-told-get-lawyer-msnbc-nazi-attack-elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hyperventilation<\/a> and wild <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/weather-reporter-pays-price-one-day-calling-elon-musk-nazi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claims<\/a> that the multibillionaire Trump supporter secretly has an affinity for Nazism.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson, who is British and has a long history as a cultural commentator in addition to his clerical work, warned at the very conclusion of a speech Saturday at the National Pro-Life Summit in Washington that &ldquo;every country in Europe&rdquo; is embracing death and exhorted the audience to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bioethicists-welcome-nih-directors-exit\/\" title=\"Bioethicists Welcome NIH Director\u2019s Exit\">promote life<\/a> in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>He ended the speech on a lighter note by mimicking the &ldquo;my heart goes out to you&rdquo; gesture.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I hope that I can encourage you, and &lsquo;my heart goes out to you.&rsquo; God bless,&rdquo; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The crowd immediately broke into laughter, recognizing the good-natured mockery of the leftist establishment, and Robinson himself chuckled as he left the stage to raucous applause.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My heart goes out to you.<\/p>\n<p>Make America Pro-Life Again. &#127482;&#127480;&#129761; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5bG8Gyy5fH\">pic.twitter.com\/5bG8Gyy5fH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Calvin Robinson (@calvinrobinson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/calvinrobinson\/status\/1884457011481325731?\">January 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  But the College of Bishops of the Anglican Catholic Church was not laughing.<\/p>\n<p>The entity released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicancatholic.org.uk\/2025\/01\/30\/a-statement-on-calvin-robinson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> on Wednesday saying that Robinson &ldquo;closed his comments with a gesture that many have interpreted as a pro-Nazi salute.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While we cannot say what was in Mr. Robinson&rsquo;s heart when he did this, his action appears to have been an attempt to curry favor with certain elements of the American political right by provoking its opposition,&rdquo; the statement admonished.<\/p>\n<p>The bishops added that Robinson &ldquo;had been warned that online trolling and other such actions (whether in service of the left or right) are incompatible with a priestly vocation and was told to desist.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Because he did not, Robinson&rsquo;s &ldquo;license in this Church has been revoked&rdquo; and &ldquo;he is no longer serving as a priest in the ACC.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The statement also commented that &ldquo;we believe that those who mimic the Nazi salute, even as a joke or an attempt to troll their opponents, trivialize the horror of the Holocaust and diminish the sacrifice of those who fought against its perpetrators.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But the entire point of Robinson&rsquo;s act was that the gesture is <em>definitively not<\/em> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/even-notoriously-liberal-adf-just-sprang-elons-defense-crushes-medias-nazi-salute-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nazi<\/a> salute.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/967549428235715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outspoken suporter of Israel<\/a>, wrote as much <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/calvinrobinson\/status\/1884822896951857300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a post<\/a>&nbsp;reacting to backlash over the stunt.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The joke at the end was a mockery of the hysterical &lsquo;liberals&rsquo; who called Elon Musk a Nazi for quite clearly showing the audience his heart was with them,&rdquo; the clergyman wrote. &ldquo;Context is key, but sometimes people ignore context to confirm their own prejudices. People see what they want to see.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Robinson &mdash; who describes himself on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvinrobinson.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> as &ldquo;Half English, half Afro-Caribbean, one hundred per cent British&rdquo; &mdash; emphasized that his &ldquo;attempt at dry wit, in that typical British way, was not a joke at the expense of WWII, nor an admission of my membership in the Nationalist Socialist Party.&rdquo; He noted that anyone not setting out to interpret his move in bad faith already knows that.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">For the record, in case it needs saying: I am not a Nazi.<\/p>\n<p>I gave a talk at a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">pro-life event<\/a> that seemed to go down well, I am pleased to have contributed to what I believe to be the most important of causes. The enemy hates that, of course, and the attacks have been plentiful.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Calvin Robinson (@calvinrobinson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/calvinrobinson\/status\/1884822896951857300?\">January 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  &ldquo;The people who understand, cheer &ndash; those who have eyes to see. The people who do not want to understand, reach for their pitchforks. They have found a new channel for their hated. They remain in my prayers; may the Lord soften their hearts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Above all else, he encouraged social media followers to &ldquo;not let the liberals distract from the real issue, the matter at hand, that we are allowing and enabling infanticide, and it must stop.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Robinson is exactly right. This entire incident reads like a cancel culture <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/methodist-church-calls-ministers-repent-hurtful-language-like-husband-wife\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charade<\/a> seeking to punish him over a specific joke made to an audience he knew would understand the context.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone even beginning to claim that Robinson was trivializing the Holocaust or expressing a tacit sympathy with Nazis, including the Anglican Catholic Church bishops, is just as hysterical and uncharitable as the establishment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cnn-panelist-freaks-scott-jennings-tells-lawyer-nazi-rant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> he originally set out to mock.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You can consider my joke crass,&rdquo; Robinson summarized. &ldquo;But I ask you to consider if your responses have been proportionate?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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At a recent rally, Musk gestured to the audience while saying &#8220;my heart goes out to you,&#8221; which led to intense media scrutiny and accusations of Nazi sympathies against him. Robinson, known for his cultural commentary, warned at the National Pro-Life Summit that Europe is embracing death and encouraged promoting life in the U.S. He ended his speech by mimicking Musk&#8217;s gesture humorously, which elicited laughter from the crowd. However, the College of Bishops condemned his actions as resembling a pro-Nazi salute and revoked his priestly license due to prior warnings about online trolling being incompatible with priesthood. Robinson defended himself by stating that he was mocking those who labeled Musk a Nazi and emphasized that context matters in understanding intentions behind gestures. 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