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The Christian Post reports:
A church in Ohio that suffered an arson attack last year after it agreed to host drag shows has sued the guilty party and members of the extremist group he is affiliated with for damages.
Earlier this year, 20-year-old Aimenn Penny [photo] was sentenced to 18 years in prison for trying to destroy the Community Church of Chesterland with Molotov cocktails for hosting a drag show.
The congregation, affiliated with the theologically liberal United Church of Christ denomination, filed a complaint against Penny and members of the group White Lives Matter Ohio in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, on Wednesday.
The Independent reports:
Three others are listed as defendants: Brandon and Sherri Perdue, as well as Chris Uthe, the apparent leader of the Ohio group. A social media profile on Gab, which appears to be linked to Mr Perdue, contains in its bio a link to the White Lives Matter Ohio Telegram chat.
The complaint lays out months of the extremist group’s alleged activity, from handing out flyers filled with racist and homophobic statements to clashing with counter-protesters, to pressuring a Unitarian Universalist church to cancel a drag event.
The group allegedly sought to recruit new members after the alleged killing of a white woman by a Black man in the state in January 2023 and tried to find new members at a gun show in March 2023. According to the ADL, White Lives Matter Ohio is part of a white supremacist network responsible for 160 incidents of racist propaganda in 2023.
ADL & @JonesDay have filed a federal civil lawsuit against current & former members of a White Lives Matter chapter in Ohio for their involvement in targeting a community church and its members, in an attempt to interfere with their ability to exercise their religious beliefs,… pic.twitter.com/zEKKNgi9la
— ADL (@ADL) April 10, 2024
The group ‘White Lives Matter Ohio’ is out a couple blocks from the church, with some doing Sieg Heil salutes in Columbus pic.twitter.com/gbj4zgydo8
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) December 3, 2022
Aimenn Penny was a member of “White Lives Matter of Ohio.”
When his group was confronted by a drag supporter a few weeks ago, they raised their arms in Nazi salutes.
At the end of the clip, you’ll see Penny yell “Fascism over faggots!”
Again, two weeks later, he allegedly… pic.twitter.com/SaeMVR8qXc
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) April 2, 2023
So to understand the reportedly admitted church-bomber Aimenn Penny, you’d need to understand the group he was a part of.
This is the interview I did of White Lives Matter of Ohio (Penny visible back left) where they explained how “the Hitler youth burned it to the ground” when… pic.twitter.com/wEHwv5A93l
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) April 2, 2023