Focus on the Family vandalized by LGBT group after Club Q shooting

A group claiming responsibility for vandalizing a sign belonging to Focus on the Family claims the criminal act was in response to “hateful theology” after a nonbinary gunman killed five people and wounded 18 others at a local bar.

Police told the Colorado Springs Gazette the incident occurred overnight Thursday at the Christian ministry’s headquarters in Colorado Springs.

The Focus on the Family sign was defaced with the spray-painted phrases, “THEIR BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS” and “FIVE LIVES TAKEN,” an apparent reference to the Club Q shooting on Nov. 22. In response, Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, told The Christian Post: “We recognize the community is hurting in the aftermath of the reckless and violent actions of a very disturbed individual. This is a time for prayer, grieving and healing, not vandalism and the spreading of hate. 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. The families of the five individuals killed in Saturday night’s senseless attack are in our prayers…. (Excerpt from The Christian Post)