The Cathedral Church of All Saints and the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee will co-sponsor an interfaith prayer service in response to the mass shooting 7 p.m. Thursday at the cathedral, 818 E. Juneau Ave., officials announced Monday.
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At the vigil the names of the shooting victims were read while the attendees stood together by candlelight.
“We are very saddened by this and other atrocities around the world”, a spokesperson for Amach!
State Rep. Kevin Schreiber, D-York City, and state auditor general Eugene DePasquale, a Yorker who held Schreiber’s job previously, both addressed those in attendance, expressing solidarity with the LGBT community.
“They’re people, we’re all people, we live in this nation, we hope to be safe”, Vasikaran said.
“I want you to know that there are young people, the age of the people who were killed, at Pulse, who are gay and lesbian and bi-sexual and transgendered and queer and they are not out to their families”, the reverend said.
Among those who took the podium were faith leaders from across the community and members of the LGBT community.
“. We need to be out of the closet and we need our allies to be out of the closet”. Love will conquer. We live in the United States of America, the land of the free and the home of the fearless.
DURING THE EVENT, bautista, whose home state is Florida, said many people have used the shooting as an opportunity to politicize the tragedy and blame it on people with mental illness and/or Muslims.
President Barack Obama has characterized Mateen as somebody radicalized by propaganda online, and said the shooting is being treated as a “terrorist investigation”.
“One year ago this week, we here in Charleston were brought face to face with the same kind of evil that the people of Orlando are being forced to reckon with today, when nine lovely souls were viciously stolen from us by a racist gunman in the basement of Mother Emanuel AME church”, Tecklenburg said. The shootings occurred late Sunday night at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
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Sunday’s attack hit LGBTQ people at one of their most sacred places.
