The suspect accused of killing five people in an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs ran a neo-Nazi website and used anti-gay slurs, a police detective testified on Wednesday. We urge everyone to pray for peace and we also pray for the individual or group responsible for this mischievous and unwarranted defacing of our ministrys property.. To sound off, please emailletters@DailySignal.comand well consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular We Hear You feature. Club Q owner says Colorado This is a time for prayer, grieving and healing, not vandalism and the spreading of hate, Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, said in a statement shared with The Independent. The organization's website has numerous "resources" for sexuality. WebColorado Springs nightclub shooting. Campaign phone number: 719-210-1607. The alleged shooter, whose defense attorneys have said uses they/them pronouns, ran a website and posted several videos of other mass shootings, including ones at synagogues and mosques mainly in Europe, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department's Rebecca Joines, the lead detective on the case. Much like in the 1990s, Focus on the Family and New Life Church remain prominent in town. At a preliminary hearing on Wednesday, prosecutors for the first time provided evidence related to why they charged 22-year-old Anderson Aldrich with hate crimes as well as murder in the Nov. 19, 2022, shooting at Club Q. Brandon Wolf, Equality Florida press secretary and a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting, said the killings at Club Q were the result of years of hateful rhetoric toward LGBTQ people. (Icons, a downtown bar with singing staff, opened a year later in 2021.). At a hearing on Wednesday, prosecutors for the first time provided evidence related to why they charged the 22-year-old suspect with hate crimes as well as murder in the shooting at Club Q. All Rights Reserved. The accused, 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, was also injured and taken to a local hospital. She testified that she believes the suspect modeled the Club Q shooting after the shootings they posted on their neo-Nazi website. A mass shooting at a popular gay club in Colorado Springs has resurfaced questions about the citys past and future among its residents. But police making the effort to get it right, particularly now, when anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is rampant, is meaningful. It is unclear if anyone has died as a result of the shooting or if there are more victims involved. WATCH: Why far-right groups are increasingly targeting the LGBTQ community. Signs and flowers are placed at a memorial outside of Club Q in Colorado Springs. For some, concealing ones name or gender identity may be a matter of personal safety or job security. The hearing is scheduled to continue through Friday, when a judge will rule if there is enough evidence to take the case which includes more than 300 charges to trial. A person pauses to pay respects at a makeshift memorial in November 2022, near Club Q. The families of the five individuals killed in Saturday nights senseless attack are in our prayers. In another PDF handout, Focus on the Family encourages parents to tell their children that "Sin has confused them; they need God's help to follow Him," when discussing same-sex couples. The department also told ProPublica it would create an LGBTQ liaison program. A Pride flag wraps around the altar during a vigil Monday at First Congregational Church in Colorado Springs. Community members gather for a vigil Sunday at the All Souls Unitarian Church in Colorado Springs. Photo by Trevor Hughes/USA Today. Campaign phone Focus on the Family spokesperson Katie Anderson confirmed the sign was vandalized, but wouldnt comment on when the incident occurred. 1 killed in northeast Colorado Springs car crash, marking the 10th traffic fatality of 2023, Serious crash along Highway 24 on the west side of Colorado Springs Tuesday afternoon, WATCH - Colorado grocery and convenience stores to sell wine, Standoff near Pueblo County elementary school ends with suspect shot, Springs restaurant holding fundraiser for fallen Fountain police officer. With the city under the national spotlight, he said the organization wanted to make it clear it stands against hate. Five lives taken, reads the graffiti on the brick Focus on the Family sign, which outside its facility off Briargate Parkway in north Colorado Springs. In the 1940s, military bases arrived. Joines also testified that the suspect had used anti-gay slurs in the past, calling their apartment property manager a "faggot" after they had an argument over the suspect not getting their mail. Under the resources for homosexuality and sexual identity, there are video links, book recommendations, and more for parents and people looking for a "Christian" perspective. Much like in the 1990s, Focus on the Family and New Life Church remain prominent in town. Their blood is on your hands and five lives taken were spray-painted onto the signfollowing Saturday nights mass shooting in Colorado Springs at Club Q. Police, media and public officials have a responsibility to lead with respect, said Jay Brown, Human Rights Campaign senior vice president for programs, research and training, in a statement to CNN. We urge everyone to pray for peace and we also pray for the individual or group responsible for this mischievous and unwarranted defacing of our ministrys property.. After the shooting, Focus on the Familys president, Jim Daly, said that like the rest of the community he was mourning the tragedy. The families of the five individuals killed inSaturday night's senseless attack are in our prayers. Contact Paige Skinner at paige.skinner@buzzfeed.com. Remember to include the url or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state. People visit a makeshift memorial Monday on a corner near the site of the mass shooting. After growing up in Colorado Springs in a military family like many others in the city she left to study at the University of Colorado in the liberal city of Boulder. Their blood is on your hands, vandals spray-painted at the Colorado Springs headquarters of Focus on the Family. Law enforcement agencies have not revealed Anderson Lee Aldrichs alleged motive, but the clubs owners and LGBT+ advocates have condemned a surge of inflammatory anti-gay and anti-trans rhetoric and politicised harassment from right-wing and religious figures and Republican officials in the weeks and months that preceded the attack. Five lives taken.". Colorado Springs, a city of about 480,000 located 70 miles south of Denver, is home to the U.S. Air Force Academy, as well as Focus on the Family, a prominent evangelical Christian ministry. Shortly after the message was discovered, a Gazette photographer found the sign covered in a plastic sheet. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Focus on the Family is the target of graffiti referencing the Club Q shooting. Ron DeSantis championed and later signed a bill this year that earned the nickname Dont Say Gay, because it banned some public school teachers from discussing sexuality or gender identity with elementary school students. In 2018, after three Black trans women were fatally shot in three separate instances in Jacksonville, Florida, the Jacksonville Sheriffs Office repeatedly refused to refer to the victims by their correct names and pronouns, ProPublica reported. "The families of the five individuals killed in Saturday night's senseless attack are in our prayers," Daly's statement said. Metz reported from Salt Lake City. Photo by Isaiah J. Downing/Reuters. Newsweek has reached out to the Colorado Springs Police Department for comment. But as the praying carried on and the woman urged May and her friend to turn to God, she felt as if praying had turned into preying. The Family Research Institutewhich reported only $50,000 in revenue in 2021appears not to have addressed the shooting. Stephanie Vigil was just elected to represent Colorado Springs in the state legislature. The nonprofit organization has an evangelical focus. Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day. Richard Fierro speaks during a news conference outside his Colorado Springs home on Monday, November 21. Daly noted a generational shift among Christian leaders away from the rhetorical style of his predecessor, Dr. James Dobson. Sam Metz, Associated Press We will not take violence against our community and our families lying down.. PUBLISHED: February 22, 2023 at 9:05 a.m. | UPDATED: February 22, 2023 at 9:06 a.m. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Five people were hospitalized Stephen Groves, Associated Press. WebFocus on the Family - Visit Colorado Springs Home Focus on the Family 8605 Explorer Dr | Colorado Springs, CO | 80920 Main: (719) 531-3400 Map Website Overview Focus on the Family welcomes visitors to the ministry's Welcome Center in Colorado Springs. Jeremy, right, comforts his partner Anthony, one of the survivors wounded in the mass shooting at Club Q, at Centura Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs on Tuesday. Whereas Focus on the Family published literature in decades past assailing what it called the Homosexual Agenda, its messaging now emphasizes tolerance, ensuring those who believe marriage should be between one man and one woman have the right to act accordingly. Wilson does not mention that Gordon Klingenschmitt, who runs the Pray in Jesus Name Project, condemned the shooting. Two friends, Derrick Rump and Daniel Aston, helped him land the job at Club Q and find his queer family in his new hometown. The sign of the Colorado Springs headquarters of the evangelical Christian ministry Focus on the Family was defaced days after a gunman attacked the citys sole LGBTQ+ nightclub. ", The article is written by Jeff Johnston. "We'd encourage you not to allow yourself to get locked into that category. But in the face of anti-LGBTQ discrimination and hostility, many Colorado Springs residents established LGBTQ funds and advocacy groups, Colorado Springs Indy columnist Brandon Flanery wrote in 2020. But since hes been here, he said, it has risen from recession-era struggles and become culturally and economically vibrant for all kinds of people. This can make it difficult to discern whether police and media are using the right terms to describe them. People hold a vigil at a makeshift memorial near the Club Q nightclub on November 20, 2022 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Ron DeSantis; and state laws protecting children from controversial transgender medical interventions, Wilson turns to address Anti-LGBTQ Hate in Colorado. He claims that far-right figures actively spread smears, conspiracy theories, and falsehoods about LGBTQ people in the months leading up to Saturdays mass shooting.. We do. It feels like the city is kind of at this tipping point, said Candace Woods, a queer minister and chaplain who has called Colorado Springs home for 18 years. In the 1990s it became known as a home base for evangelical nonprofits and Christian ministries including the broadcast ministry Focus on the Family and the Fellowship of Christian Cowboys. Still, he noted signs that the city was more culturally conservative than others of similar size and much of Colorado: Colorado Springs is kind of an outlier, he said. Lawyers for the suspect in the shooting said in a court filing Tuesday that their client is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, marking the first time that information was public. It unearthed memories of hearing things about LGBTQ people she saw as hateful and inciting. These [five] individuals gathered at Club Q with friends and loved ones, new and old, to be in community and to grieve all the lives lost to transphobia, the statement adds, calling the mass shooting an act of hate. In his first court appearance by video Wednesday, suspect Anderson Lee Aldritch still wore many of the cuts and bruises police say he received when Richard Fierro and Thomas James stopped him that night. The errors taught by transgender activists, and believed by many today, are likewise a result of sin and deception entering into the world. If so, you will want to examine your faith convictions with great care and give them priority over every other consideration," the group continued on the page. There must be a willingness to learn about the full lives of those taken from us for the sake of respecting and honoring their lives.. In a 2018 analysis, ProPublica found that in 74 out of 85 cases of murders of trans people, law enforcement agencies referred to the victims by the wrong name and gender. With a growing and diversifying population, the city nestled at the foothills of the Rockies is a patchwork of disparate social and cultural fabrics. Priester-Collins watched the preliminary hearing remotely because she was unsure she would be able to stay calm inside the courtroom with the person accused in the attack sitting feet away. Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, is accused of opening fire Saturday in Club Q, a popular LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs. It was a safe space for the LGBTQ community of Colorado Springs, Club Q was Colorado Springs only remaining gay bar at the time of Flanerys piece. More than one-third of residents are nonwhite twice as many as in 1980. A person pauses to pay respects at a makeshift memorial in November 2022, near Club Q. Days after the mass shooting, someone left a spray-painted message on a Focus on the Family sign. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Focus on the Family is the target of graffiti referencing the Club Q shooting. All rights reserved. "We recognize the community is hurting in the aftermath of the reckless and violent actions of a very disturbed individual. Sophia Diana, left, holds her friend Lex Chapman's hand during the vigil at the All Souls Unitarian Church. / broadcast ministry 2. Thats usually the club that most people here in Oklahoma, when they take a trip out there, thats where theyre recommended to go for a safe space, Tempest Cartwright, who was best friends with a Club Q bartender who was killed in the shooting, told BuzzFeed News last year. Although it is not clear if the suspect had a connection with the organization, the conservative Christian ministry group is known for its anti-LGBTQ messaging. Many news outlets cited Dalys condemnation of the shooting, but the Southern Poverty Law Center notably did not. But even departments in cities with sizable LGBTQ populations, such as the Orange County Sheriffs Department in central Florida, can be careless in their interactions with LGBTQ victims and witnesses: In 2018, when investigating the death of Sasha Garden, a Black trans woman, the sheriffs office misgendered her and used descriptions that LGBTQ advocates said were damaging, the Orlando Sentinel reported. She is now running to become Denvers mayor. Incorrectly identifying a victim can slow down an investigation, confusing people who may have known them by the name they used in everyday life, the outlet reported. Heres why its harmful to misgender LGBTQ victims of crime, and why its important that Colorado Springs police took steps to honor LGBTQ advocates wishes and treat the Club Q victims with sensitivity and respect. It is no surprise that someone did this in the city that is home to such a hateful organization as Focus on the Family.. "Today, they should be thankful we don't repay blood with blood," another tweeted. CNN has reached out to the sheriffs office for comment.). The amendment passed, and Colorado earned the nickname the hate state, according to the Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum. People attend a vigil at Temple Beit Torah in Colorado Springs on Sunday, November 20. For years its marketed itself as an outdoorsy boomtown with a population set to top Denvers by 2050. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - Phylisha Priester-Collins, her daughter and a friend were inside Club Q when gunfire interrupted their lives and changed their perspectives, forever. Someone spray-painted the sign in front of the City council debates revolve around issues familiar throughout the Mountain West, such as water, housing and the threat of wildfires. Florida Gov. A sign on the property of the Colorado-based evangelical organisation Focus on the Family was vandalised with graffiti reading blood is on your hands and fives lives taken, an apparent reference to a mass shooting inside a Colorado Springs LGBT+ nightclub that left five dead and injured 18 others. Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much My book Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center traces how the SPLCoriginally a public-interest legal nonprofit representing poor people in the Southbecame a juggernaut of political fundraising, in part by suing white supremacist organizations into bankruptcy and then using that work to exaggerate the threat of hate groups and to scare donors into ponying up cash. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) When officials unfurled a 25-foot rainbow flag in front of Colorado Springs City Hall this week, people gathered to mourn the victims of a mass shooting at a popular gay club couldnt help but reflect on how such a display of support would have been unthinkable just days earlier. In the 1990s, Colorado Springss Focus on the Family led the fundamentalist charge in support of Amendment 2, a Colorado ballot measure that banned municipalities from including LGBTQ people in their anti-discrimination policies. This is a time for prayer, grieving and healing, not vandalism and the spreading of hate., Focus on the Family defines itself as a global Christian ministry dedicated to helping families thrive. The organization supports the anti-abortion movement in the abortion debate, and features anti-LGBT+ broadcasts, including Leaving Homosexuality and Finding Forgiveness and Transformed by Grace: Leaving Homosexuality to Follow Christ., The families of the five individuals killed in Saturday nights senseless attack are in our prayers, Daly said. The SPLC did not respond to The Daily Signals request for comment on the Focus on the Family vandalism, and the center doesnt appear to have condemned it publicly. The "Sacred Cloth" Pride Flag is displayed following a ceremony at City Hall after a mass shooting at LGBTQ nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It may be short-term political gain, but with our community, it comes with real lived consequences.. Many police departments lack training or specific policies for interacting with LGBTQ residents, according to a report on policing and LGBTQ people by the National LGBT HIV Criminal Justice Working Group, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Transgender Equality. Its a place full of art shops and breweries; megachurches and military bases; a liberal arts college and the Air Force Academy. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Five people were hospitalized following a shooting on the east side of Colorado Springs on Tuesday evening. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Police did not announce the Club Q shooting suspects motive, but they face five counts of first-degree murder and five counts of a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury, court records show. If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it here. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters. Focus on the Family President Jim Daly condemned the shooting on the day it occurred. Its opening sentence describes the shooting as coming after years of intensifying anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, acts of violence and intimidation, and discriminatory legislation from far-right individuals and groups, including powerful Republican politicians., After attacks on conservative commentators Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, and Candace Owens; Libs of TikTok owner Chaya Raichik; Florida Gov. Have an opinion about this article? Will that affect potential hate crime charges? Five people were killed, and 25 others were injured, 19 of them by gunfire. It can also perpetuate violence against LGBTQ people and reinforce the belief that trans peoples identities are not legitimate. @Tyler2ONeil Join the millions of people who benefit from The Daily Signals fair, accurate, trustworthy reporting with direct access to: Dont have time to read the Washington Post or New York Times? It comes as a shocked Colorado Springs grieves the loss of five people Raymond Green Vance, Kelly Loving, Daniel Aston, Derrick Rump and Ashley Paugh after a person armed with an AR-style rifle fired into Club Q just before midnight on 19 November. Wilson also suggests that some evangelical churches should lose their nonprofit status for electioneering in support of fundamentalist candidates in school board elections. He notes that the SPLCs hate map lists four anti-LGBTQ hate groups, including two headquartered in Colorado Springs: the Family Research Institute and the Pray in Jesus Name Project. Not for the "stupid price" of $150 an acre foot. Police told 11 News partner The Gazette that the statement was spray-painted at some point during the wee hours of Thursday morning. WebStop in today so we may find what can help you, and your family, fully serve Christs Kingdom. On the night of the shooting, the suspect arrived at Club Q around 10:14 p.m. and stayed for just a few minutes before leaving and coming back inside with guns, including an assault-style rifle, she said. This community, just like any other community in the country, is complex, she said. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. When officials unfurled a 25-foot rainbow flag in front of Colorado Springs City Hall this week, people gathered to mourn the victims of a mass shooting at a popular LGBTQ club couldnt help but reflect on how such a display of support would have been unthinkable just days earlier. In one of the organization's PDF handouts, Focus on the Family writes: "The Bible also teaches that sin has entered the world and affects every area of life. The vandals added, Five lives taken.. We urge everyone to pray for peace and we also pray for the individual or group responsible for this mischievous and unwarranted defacing of our ministrys property.. Please check your inbox to confirm. Focus on the Family is privileged to be one of many organizations in our city positioned to help and support the needs of struggling individuals and families, he Colorado Springs is a community that is full of love. We recognize the community is hurting in the aftermath of the reckless and violent actions of a very disturbed individual, said Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, in a Friday statement. This is a time for prayer, grieving and healing, not vandalism and the spreading of hate," Focus on the Family President Jim Daly told Newsweek in an emailed statement. Focus on the Family is an evangelical organization founded in California in 1977. In addition to the five people who were killed, at least 18 others were injured. The Jacksonville Sheriffs Office told ProPublica it was following its policy at the time, identifying victims based on medical examiner reports and the victims state ID. Other local enforcement officials, including the El Paso County Sheriffs Office which has taken over custody of the suspect continued to refer to the suspect using he/him pronouns after the filing stating their gender identity. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. For some, merely seeing police being careful to refer to the victims using their correct pronouns this week signaled a seismic change. Over the summer, members of the extremist group Proud Boys interrupted a drag queen story hour, and other groups have since protested the events or forced them to be canceled. Residents take pride in describing Colorado Springs as a place defined by reinvention. A non-profit worker with a 'huge heart.' Learn more about Friends of the NewsHour. But last weekends shooting has raised uneasy questions about the lasting legacy of cultural conflicts that caught fire decades ago and gave Colorado Springs a reputation as a cauldron of religion-infused conservatism, where LGBTQ people didnt fit in with the most vocal community leaders idea of family values. An estimated 5 million Americans tune into its weekly radio program, which is broadcast by more than 2,500 stations around the world. Subscribe to Heres the Deal, our politics Some trans people dont seek to change their legal names on identifying documents because of economic or logistical barriers, according to the ACLU. Joines said that detectives found a cellphone taped to a hat inside the suspect's car, leading detectives to believe they had considered livestreaming that night. There has been a concerted push to shed the citys reputation as Jesus Springs and remake it yet again, highlighting its elite Olympic Training Center and branding itself as Olympic City USA. We recognize the community is hurting in the aftermath of the reckless and violent actions of a very disturbed individual. When you pump that demoralizing rhetoric into the atmosphere, when you supercharge the political environment to make it as hostile as possible toward LGBTQ people, someone has to pay the price, he told CNNs Jim Acosta on Sunday. Im a woman in a mans body is just one example of the effect of sin in our world. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - Vandals defaced a sign outside a local Christian ministry Thursday, accusing the organization of complicity in the horrific massacre at an LGBTQ+ nightclub. We still have to live with the nightmares, the PTSD, Priester-Collins explained. Regardless of motive, I condemn the demonic violence ruling inside the heart of the shooter in the Colorado Springs nightclub, Klingenschmitt wrote on Facebook on Nov. 20. CLICK HERE for the GoFundMe Central Hub for donation information. We must condemn in the strongest terms possible the taking of innocent life., After the vandalism, Daly said the shootings aftermath should be a time of prayer, grieving and healing, not vandalism and the spreading of hate., The families of the five individuals killed in Saturday nights senseless attack are in our prayers, Daly added in a public statement. @Tyler2ONeil, Tyler O'Neil is managing editor of The Daily Signal and the author of "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center.". Contrary to SPLC insinuations, groups like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council dont hate LGBT people or wish them dead. Wilsons article doesnt mark the first time the Southern Poverty Law Center has suggested that anti-LGBT hate and conservative Christians may be responsible for a shooting at a gay nightclub. Focus on the Family's Colorado Springs, Colorado, headquarters was vandalized on Thanksgiving with a message blaming the group for a recent mass shooting that killed five people and injured 18 others. She said shes seen and heard hateful anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from influential figures in Colorado Springs. Then get The Morning Bell, an early morning edition of the days most important political news, conservative commentary and original reporting from a team committed to following the truth no matter where it leads. We have to deal with this psychologically, physically. / The Club Q shooting suspect identifies as nonbinary. Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton joined The Denver Post in January 2022 as a business reporter, focusing her coverage on social inequities in business. Some conservative lawmakers and leaders have supported anti-LGBTQ legislation rooted in the same harmful anti-LGBTQ rhetoric espoused by extremist groups. On November 1920, 2022, a mass shooting occurred at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. Joe Biden Turns Americas Government Into Wokeness Inc. newsletter for analysis you wont find anywhereelse. A statement from a group claiming responsibility for the vandalism, shared by a Twitter account called colorado peoples press, said we chose to proceed with this action because of the incredible violence that Focus on the Family continues to perpetuate against the LGBT+ community. It reminded May of her beloved great-grandparents, who were religious. We urge everyone to pray for peace and we also pray for the individual or group responsible for this mischievous and unwarranted defacing of our ministry's property.". Juan Chavez, left, hugs Jennifer Horn as they join other Club Q supporters outside the Colorado Springs City Hall on Wednesday. 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