St. Paul’s Lutheran Church congregant Kadie Ramey talks to a crowd about recent vandalism at the building as the Rev. Mark Rollenhagen listens. Shock and then anger were the Rev. Mark Rollenhagen’s first two reactions when he saw the anti-LGBTQ+ message painted at the entrance to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Waukegan on Wednesday.
Members of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church listen to messages of love after a vandal spray-painted an anti LGBTQ+ message at the church entrance. More than three years ago, St Paul’s became a Reconciling in Christ Community, embracing a program within its greater church organization. Rollenhagen said the designation lets people who identify as LGBTQ+ feel the church’s open arms.
“I tensed,” he said. “He said, ‘Thank you. A friend of mine is LGBTQ, and he was not well-received by his family and was thinking of killing himself. Then he saw a pride flag and it saved his life.’”
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