FBI Sending Suspicious Powder To Headquarters
November 18, 2008 by national
Filed under Homeland Security News
A suspicious substance mailed to the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is on its way to FBI headquarters in Quantico, Va., for further testing.
FBI agents in Salt Lake City said they received a final report from the state health department on the white powdery substance in an envelope mailed to Temple Square last week. Tests were conducted to ensure it wasn’t ricin, anthrax or any other biological weapon.
“It is not any kind of biological agent or toxin or even a new strain,” FBI Special Agent Juan Becerra said Monday.
Envelopes with white powder were mailed to Temple Square, the LDS Church’s temple in Los Angeles, and a printing press belonging to the Catholic-affiliated Knights of Columbus in New Haven, Conn. Both churches were heavy backers of California’s Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that banned same-sex marriage in that state.
The FBI has labeled its probe a domestic terrorism investigation. Becerra would not say whether the agency had identified any suspects in the case, but reiterated Monday that the FBI had no evidence that linked the threats to Prop. 8 or its opponents.
Many gay rights organizations have also decried the threats.
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Talk about hypocritical people. Gays screaming in the streets about the intolerance of others when they themselves are just as intolerant of others viewpoints, thoughts and feelings. You lost an election fair and square and so now it’s time for those of you at least in California to continue to stick to California Family Civil Code 297.5 to obtain your domestic-partner rights and if you want to have a wedding ceremony to fulfill your emotional side, then find a gay-friendly minister to perform it.
For those of you who don’t know what California Family Civil Code 297.5 is, please go read it. It provides same-sex couples the same legal rights as married heterosexual couples. All they need to do is go fill out the forms. In fact, here’s an exerpt from the Code and please note that heterosexual couples have to be 62 or OLDER to be able to take advantage of it. Therefore, gays have MORE rights than non-gays when it comes to this:
A California domestic partnership is a legal relationship available to same-sex couples, and to certain opposite-sex couples in which at least one party is at least 62 years of age. It affords the couple “the same rights, protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law..”