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On Thanksgiving Day, the entrance to the focus on the family offices was vandalized.

The perpetrators, referring to the recent mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs,

spray-painted these words, quote, blood is on your hands, five lives taken.

They also left a sign that quoted 2 Corinthians 11-14-15, implying that the organization actually

does the devil's work.

Well two days earlier, an opinion piece in the New York Times also blamed focus on the

family for the murderers.

When I heard the news about the shooting at Club Q wrote the author, an LGBTQ club in

Colorado Springs, I couldn't help but think of the rhetoric spewed by those like James

Dopson.

And many other news reports, articles, opinion pieces and tweets also explicitly connected

the shooting to focus on the family as well as other evangelical organizations, churches,

and even military bases in Colorado Springs.

Group who claimed responsibility for the vandalism at focus on the family never used the phrase

stochastic terrorism, but their reasoning relied upon it.

Much of the media coverage, to be clear, did employ this brand new phrase, one that's

now increasingly being used to direct blame.

In this case, anyone who advocated against same-sex marriage or opposed LGBTQ advocacy

in schools and libraries or who suggests that sexual orientation and gender confusion

are not permanent and immutable identities are guilty of hate speech and complicit in

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