Church apologizes for priest who compared Black Lives Matter protesters to 9/11 terrorists

A Catholic church has apologized for controversially comparing Black Lives Matter demonstrators to terrorists in the September 11 attacks.

Associate pastor Fr. Paul Graney made the comments during a service in Dearborn, Michigan, last weekend.

In the clip, which has since been removed from the Church of the Divine Child's website, Graney allegedly referred to antifa as "an anarchist, terrorist organization" and claimed the Black Lives Matter movement is "working against the traditional family structure."

The pastor drew comparisons between Al-Qaeda terrorists and today's protest movements across the U. S., saying both intend to destroy America.

"Back then in 2001, Al-Qaeda, they came with the goal to destroy America, little by little with acts of terror, not all at one time, they weren't sending any great army," Graney said, as reported by the Detroit Free Press.

"But in 2020, many of our own people are now out there in the streets wanting to remake America into something else by destroying what it is today. Little by little, there's no great army, but it's by riot. By riot really."

Graney took aim at groups antifa and Black Lives Matter, making repeated references back to Islamic terrorist organization Al-Qaeda.

"Today, in this day and age, it is groups from within our own borders," he said. "Our own citizens have now put America in their crosshairs on a scale that we may have never seen before. Maybe not since the Civil War."

The nearly 12-minute clip, which was posted by a Dearborn resident online, ... (Read more)

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