As it turns out, the trans activists who recently held a sacrilegious funeral in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City for one of their peers likely committed a hate crime.
Writing in a letter to New York Attorney General Letitia James, Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, a leading Catholic advocacy group, called for an “investigation into the facts and circumstances surrounding the recent use of St.Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City by transgender activists to deceptively gain access and advance ideas and beliefs hostile to doctrines of the Catholic Church, while openly mocking these beliefs.”
Highlighting the state’s penal code, Burch noted that both acts implicate the trans activists in criminal activity. Penal Law Section 485.3 indicates how “New York’s court’s [sic] have recognized that those who gain access to property by deception are liable for criminal trespass,” while Section 485.05.1(a) specifies that “selecting the victim of a criminal trespass based on a religion or religious practice is a hate crime.”
“The outrageous sacrilege perpetrated at St. Patrick’s Cathedral is indeed a hate crime,” Burch wrote. “Video footage shows that transgender activists intentionally used deception to obtain permission to enter St. Patrick’s and the facts show that access was used to desecrate that sacred space and mock Catholic faith and morals.”
As Thomas Griffin recently wrote in these pages, “Joseph Zwilling, the communications director for the Archdiocese of New York, said Cardinal Dolan and the cathedral only knew that a funeral was asked to be offered for a
