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Homosexual activist who sent death threats sentenced to five years’ probation
Life Site ^ | Kirsten Andersen

Posted on 04/18/2013 9:05:32 PM PDT by Morgana

NEW HAVEN, CT, April 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews) – An Enfield, CT man who pleaded guilty to sending hundreds of threatening letters to the head of a pro-life, pro-family group in Hartford was sentenced Tuesday to five years’ probation by a federal judge.

Daniel Sarno, 54, who is homosexual, admitted to sending over 300 letters to Peter Wolfgang, executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut, expressing his anger over the Family Institute’s opposition to same-sex “marriage.” The letters he sent were uniformly abusive. Many contained death threats.

“No mercy for homophobes,” one letter read. “I suggest you make your funeral arrangements real soon, Mr. Wolfgang. (I should know.)”

Another letter said, “I sure hope somebody blows you away. Yer dead.”

Yet another asked, “Are ‘family values’ worth dying for, Mr. Wolfgang?”

Sarno pleaded guilty last August to sending the threatening letters. Sentencing guidelines called for up to 16 months of jail time, but Lawrence Taffner, the Family Institute’s operations director, wrote a letter to Judge Ellen Bree Burns asking her to “temper justice with mercy and prayer.”

Even so, prosecutor John H. Durham asked Judge Burns to impose a tough sentence, arguing that Wolfgang – who has a wife and six young children – along with his co-workers and neighbors were forced to “change [their] whole lifestyle” in light of the death threats, which were sent over a period of six months.

But the judge was apparently swayed by a letter from psychiatrist Jonathan Greenberg and psychologist Coleen Dobo claiming imprisonment “would make [Sarno] vulnerable to victimization and a disintegration of his mental status.”

Judge Burns declined to put Sarno behind bars, sentencing him instead to five years of probation.

The judge called Sarno “a disturbed individual who needs a great deal of help.”

Peter Wolfgang could not be reached for comment Wednesday, but he told the local Journal Inquirer after court Tuesday that he agreed “with every word” of Lawrence Taffner’s letter, “including mercy.”

“I do forgive Mr. Sarno,” Wolfgang told the paper.

But he said the case highlighted “a growing campaign of intimidation” by militant homosexuals who would like nothing more than to silence those who defend traditional marriage.

Homosexual activist Floyd Corkins II recently pleaded guilty to shooting Family Research Center security guard Leo Johnson after entering the group’s headquarters with a gun and a backpack full of Chick-Fil-A Sandwiches, announcing, “I don’t like your politics.” Johnson survived the shooting.

In a videotaped confession, the 28-year-old Corkins he intended to “kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-Fil-A sandwiches in victims’ faces, and kill the guard.” He said hoped his crime would “make a statement against the people who work in that building ... their stance against gay rights and [for] Chick-fil-A.”

Chick-Fil-A had recently been the target of boycotts and protests by gay activists because of CEO Dan Cathy’s support for traditional marriage.

In April 2012, a group of self-proclaimed “angry queers” smashed the windows of a 100-year-old church in Oregon because it opposed redefining marriage. They left a note behind which read, “The only dialog we need with scum like Mars Hill [church] is hammers through their windows.”

Traditional Values Coalition President Andrea Lafferty told LifeSiteNews.com in August that while her organization has received “many, many threats from the homosexual and transgender community” as far back as the 1980s, the Obama administration’s leadership has been uncooperative in working to put an end to the threats. Obama’s Department of Justice “does not believe they need to protect us,” she told LSN, adding that Attorney General Eric Holder “has put Christians at a low priority.”


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: activist; ct; family; homosexualagenda; threats

1 posted on 04/18/2013 9:05:32 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Remember boys & girls - it’s only a hate crime when a white, straight, male does it.


2 posted on 04/18/2013 9:06:37 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: Morgana

“Probation” is a joke. Nothing but a big joke.


3 posted on 04/18/2013 9:21:27 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Bill of Rights?)
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To: Morgana

“No mercy for homophobes”

A word of advice. When you represent a 3% minority, however successful your campaign of convincing has been, don’t ever believe you’ll be the one withholding mercy, because when things collapse as is the destiny of every civilization, you’ll be right back where you started. Perverted, disturbed weirdos living on the fringe of a new world. Your comrades are soon to discover that in Europe as it slips back into its old ways, starting with Greece.

In short, the freaks never become ringmasters.


4 posted on 04/18/2013 9:23:42 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: FlingWingFlyer

yep


5 posted on 04/18/2013 9:25:59 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Morgana
According to the Obama DHS as lead by Janet Napolitano, most home grown terrorists are liberals.

http://start.umd.edu/start/publications/research_briefs/LaFree_Bersani_HotSpotsOfUSTerrorism.pdf

Obama's DHS Report illustrates that 16% of nuts are on the right and 84% are on the left. 5.25x's more likley than any other group to commit violence.


6 posted on 04/18/2013 9:33:31 PM PDT by NoLibZone (None here can be puzzled by why Jews walked into the cars so quietly- we are walking up the planks.)
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To: Morgana
Joseph "Stretch" Scott Sword pleaded guilty on Dec. 19 to making threats against Obama and was sentenced Tuesday to 46 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Ron Clark.
7 posted on 04/18/2013 9:38:32 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Morgana

Of course, this story will not be heard on the evening news or reported in your daily newspaper. But any anti-gay crime WILL be duly reported.


8 posted on 04/18/2013 9:38:34 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Viennacon

I don’t know about that-—homosexuals are inhumane and brutal—because of their dehumanizing acts being habituated. All Serial Killers were sexually perverse. Samurai and Spartans come to mind and pederasty was 100%-—it is a learned behavior so the next generation will have a “worldview” like the little boys of Afghanistan—since they are in harems and “learn” the behavior which includes hating women....... and why muslim nations are over 90% homosexual.

The culture would be brutal, if it survived—but look how long the muslims survived their pederasty-—as long as the Greeks and Romans????-—It is particularly brutal for women and children—where it is always extremely sexist and ugly. Children can be warped easily in such vile cultures.


9 posted on 04/18/2013 10:38:12 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: Morgana

I am sure FOX and the other so-called news outlets will be all over this. /s


10 posted on 04/18/2013 11:58:35 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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To: Morgana

Of course, the solution to this travesty of justice is to provoke Sarno with more pro-family advocacy, where he is likely to see it openly, and for Wolfgang to taunt him personally; publicly. Since homos have virtually no self control, he’ll be bound to violate the conditions of his probation and get thrown in the slammer where he belongs.


11 posted on 04/19/2013 5:57:17 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“Some animals are more equal than others.”


12 posted on 04/19/2013 5:59:28 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Steve_Seattle
Of course, this story will not be heard on the evening news or reported in your daily newspaper. But any anti-gay crime WILL be duly reported.

Until it is discovered that the "anti-'gay' crime" is a hoax, and will then be buried deeply and covered briefly.

13 posted on 04/19/2013 6:04:18 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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