Listen: Missouri State Senator Receives Death Threat Because Of His Christianity

11-17-2015

Warning: being a Christian can be hazardous to your health…and we’re not just talking about in Syria.

Missouri Sen. Kurt Schaefer has shut down his office after a man threatened to string him up and hang him from a tree because of his Christian beliefs.

It came in the form of a voice mail to his senate office phone. Listen below along with a transcription:


“Christianity is dying in this country. People like you – people with your beliefs – many of us would rather string you up to (expletive-deleted) tree and hang you and (expletive-deleted) choke out and watch the life slip away from you, because you want to ruin the lives of other people.”

The Missouri Highway Patrol and capitol police are investigating. Schaefer isn’t sure why he received the threat. It very well may have something to do with his recent move to prevent the publishing of a University of Missouri student’s dissertation on Missouri’s 72-hour waiting abortion law. He believes it violates state law because it is biased research and is simply a, “marketing aid” for Planned Parenthood. Under Missouri law, the use of tax dollars is not allowed to encourage a woman to have an abortion unless it is “necessary to save her life.”

Additionally, this all comes amid an effort by Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri to urge the University of Missouri to reinstate hospital privileges for abortionists. Those privileges were pulled a couple months ago.  Schaefer has been a leading voice and leader in fighting Planned Parenthood in Missouri.

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