Second attack on East End clergy by teenage thugs
10 05 08 - 10:37 A SECOND priest has been beaten up in his own churchyard in the space of just eight weeks in London’s East End — this time over an argument about a football.The Rector of St Matthew’s in Bethnal Green, The Rev Kevin Scully, was attacked on Tuesday afternoon by three drunken youths who had returned to take their revenge for a row three days before.
He had taken their ball last Saturday after he saw them using a cross on the church as a basketball hoop.
He has been taunted with religious and racist abuse in the past, but believes the beating was more alcohol-fuelled than anything more sinister.
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The rector is a white man, so that must mean that his attackers are almost certainly of the same non-white ethnicity that had been racially abusing him. As a Christian he should have show Christ-like tolerance and advised them gently that, while he would not stop them, would they please not play basket ball with the cross. Jesus' teaching is very clear on this matter.
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