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Grand Rapids, Michigan priest defrocked over mimicking Elon Musk Nazi-like salute

www.mlive.com Grand Rapids priest defrocked over mimicking Elon Musk Nazi-like salute

The priest made the controversial salute to a crowd at the National Pro-Life Summit in Washington, D.C.

The Anglican Catholic Church has removed a Grand Rapids priest for making an alleged Nazi salute.

Calvin Robinson, priest-in-charge at St. Paul’s Anglican Catholic Church, was defrocked Thursday, Jan. 29, after church leadership learned he’d made the controversial salute to a crowd at the National Pro-Life Summit on Jan. 25 in Washington, D.C.

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sigh of course it was someone from Kent County.
- Is that where the Michigan Nazis are? I don't know anything about Michigan.
  
  Kent County is in the northern part of the lower peninsula. The most well known city in the area is Grand Rapids, home of the DeVos family (Amway, Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos). In more recent history they have usually been right leaning, and the sheriff's office had been in the news for not the greatest reasons.
  That's what I know and colors my perception. I'm honestly surprised that Harris won that county, so maybe there is a culture shift up there.
  
  There are hate and white supremacist groups scattered all over the state, more so as you move further from Detroit and Lansing as the major metropolitan areas. If there was a bigotry capital though I'd put my money on Howell.
- Technically he's British. He's from Nottingham.
  He's just drawn to places where being a throbber is considered ok.
  
  So he's an immigrant, aligning himself with the immigrant-hating Trump fascists. How stupid exactly is he? I guess he thinks they'd never "deport" him to a camp because he's one of the good ones.
  
  ... one of the ~~white~~self-hating ones.
  ~~FTFY~~ Oof! My bad, corrected
  
  I wasn't going to bring this up, but... it's a little confusing...
  
  Yeah, I saw a picture of the wrong guy, sorry!
  
  Robinson is of mixed-race heritage. He describes his background as "half Afro-Caribbean and half English"
  
  Thanks! I started to check, clicked on a video which started with a white guy's face, and didn't stay to watch. My bad.
- IKR?

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