Posted on 01/22/2012 9:51:05 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
At West Park, Rev. Brashear walked into the church for a morning service to find the 18-inch-diameter bronze basin and lid missing from the baptismal fonts 800-pound base. Holy water straight from the River Jordan had been poured from the missing basin insert into the bases bowl.
About 60 occupiers had rolled out their sleeping bags between the pews the night before as part of their evening ritual, Rev. Brashear recalled. When they returned to the church later, following the pastors discovery, he issued a stern warning: You have 24 hours to find it and to come up with an amends and to come up with a plan. Im sorry and it wont happen again wont work, he scolded.
The artifact vanished just three weeks after a $2,400 Apple MacBook vanished from Brashears office. He told the occupiers that even when the 100-year-old Upper West Side church extended help to addicts during the 1980s drug scourge, no visitors touched its $12,500 sacramental instrument.
Not even crackheads messed with that, he said.
The pastor and a worshipper finally found the missing basin tossed into a small room connected to the church. The lid is still missing. The pastor has given protesters two weeks to vacate the church.
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Stolen and sold for scrap metal to buy drugs, and I have no sympathy for the Reverend.
He was fool enough to invite OWS in, and now he complains about their predictable behavior.
The “Oh We Stink” er... OWS crowd truly lives up to it’s name.
LOSERS! With a capital L!
>>>The pastor has given protesters two weeks to vacate the church.
About a 13 days, 23 hours and 59.5 minutes too much time.
No good deed goes unpunished
This Rev has had nothing but troulbe in the time he has allowed this scum to spleep there.
His surprise at their behavior had gotten old.
if I were a member of that church I’d ask for him to be removed.
and of course I’d kick out the bums
two weeks to vacate. That will teach them
No honor among thieves. As Nancy Pelosi says, “God bless ‘em.” Maybe Nancy can use some of her vast wealth to buy the church a new baptismal font.
Two weeks? What about get your stuff out now, I am calling the cops and charging with with trespassing.
(Yes once he says leave and they don’t they are trespassing)
My boss was telling me yesterday that the churches were allowing the OWS’s to sleep there at night.
Of course I was outraged. Now this? I just emailed the boss this article.
The church needs to boot them out NOW, not 2 weeks. They will cause a lot of damage in 2 weeks time.
Of course the DUmmies will whine and cry “This MONSTER is booting these poor people, every single one of them a beautiful person, out on the streets!”.
Two weeks to vacate??
If you invite the mangy dogs in why should you complain about the fleas?
I hope Obama is proud now.
The pastor is giving them two weeks to vacate the church? How about giving the filthy bums two minutes?
Darn it, not those Tea Partiers again! Oh, wait...
“’Not even crackheads messed with that,’ he said,” but crackheads have more dignity.
They are Obamascum.
The Rev should know that now.
If this moron’s congregation went along with the farce, then they are all getting just what they asked for. Maybe they can get their tough-sh*t-card punched by Hizzoner.
Obama voters.
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