Brooklyn clergy grieve for Sikh temple victims
Several clergy with Brooklyn affiliations have signed a statement of solidarity with the victims of the shooting at the Sikh Temple over the weekend.
The four-paragraph statement reads:
“We join our colleagues in the New York City faith community, and Americans of faith and no faith, in grieving for the victims of the shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek. Our hearts go out to all of their families, to their community, to the people of Oak Creek, and to the courageous first responders who sought to protect members of the congregation. It is a core treasure of American democracy that all peoples have the right to pray as they choose. That someone would breach the peace of sacred space with such profound harm is shocking.