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Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Faith leaders and advocates grapple with a rising tide of extremist rhetoric.
The Rev. Mary Erickson, associate rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Jackson, was among the 15 Wyoming religious leaders who signed their names to a letter denouncing extremism. She signed it just one day after a gunman opened fire in Yellowstone National Park, motivated by struggling mental health and white supremacist and antisemitic beliefs, according to recently unsealed court documents.
JACKSON - The day after a gunman opened fire in Yellowstone National Park on the Fourth of July, Wyoming clergy sent a letter to the state's elected leaders, asking them to denounce a rising tide of political extremist rhetoric in the Equality State that they say could lead to violence.
The Rev. Mary Erickson, associate rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Jackson, was among the first to sign onto the letter, "denouncing antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry" and "combating calls for hate and political violence."
Erickson didn't know at the time that the gunman, Samson Lucas Bariah Fussner,...
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