Priest’s License Revoked By Church After Copying Musk's Salute At Anti-Abortion Summit
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The Anglican Catholic Church said Calvin Robinson had been "warned" about "online trolling."
A Michigan priest had his license revoked by the Anglican Catholic Church after he mimicked Elon Musk’s controversial straight-arm gesture, which many have likened to a Nazi salute, during a speech.
The church announced it dismissed Calvin Robinson as a priest and rescinded his license after he made the gesture at the end of his speech Saturday during the National Pro-Life Summit in Washington, D.C.
“The Holocaust was an episode of unspeakable horror, enacted by a regime of evil men,” the Anglican Catholic Church said in a statement on its website. “We condemn Nazi ideology and anti-Semitism in all its forms.”
The statement continued, “And 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. Such actions are harmful, divisive, and contrary to the tenets of Christian charity.”
The church said Robinson previously 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.”