A Michigan priest was revoked his license for the Anglican Catholic Church after imitating a Straight arm gesture by Elon Musk For a speech earlier this month, some have interpreted as Nazi greeting.
Calvin Robinson, who appears as the priest in charge of the Anglican Catholic Church of San Pablo in Grand Rapids, Michigan, made the gesture at the end of a speech on January 25 at the National Pro-Life Summit in Washington, DC
On Wednesday, the Anglican Catholic Church published a statement that said that the “Robinson’s license in this Church has been revoked” after making a “gesture that many have interpreted as a pro-nazi greeting.”
“While we cannot say what was in the heart of Mr. Robinson when he did this, his action seems to have been an attempt to curl the favor of certain elements of US political law causing his opposition,” he reads in the statement. “Mr. Robinson had been warned that online trolling and other similar actions (either in service of the left or right) are incompatible with a priestly vocation and was told to give up. Clearly, he has not done so, and As such, its license in this the Church has been revoked.
“In addition, we understand that this is not just an administrative issue. Holocaust was an indescribable episode, promulgated by a regime of evil men. We condemn Nazi ideology and anti -Semitism in all its forms. And we believe that those who mimicate the greeting Nazi, even as a joke or troll attempt to his opponents, trivializes the horror of the holocaust and decreases the sacrifice of those who fought against their perpetrators.
Musk’s gesture that Robinson was imitating occurred in a speech on January 20 during the celebrations of the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump. Musk hit his hand on his chest, extended his arm directly with the palm of the hand down and said: “My heart is with you.”
At the end of Robinson’s speech, on January 25, he cited Musk, saying “My heart is with you”, before imitating his straight arm movement.
In a statement published on his Facebook page, Robinson said “in case I need to say: I am not a Nazi” and that the gesture was a “joke.”
Robinson is from England and in the past he has been Franco on his conservative points, according to a biography on the website of the Catholic Church of San Pablo.
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